[TriLUG] Asus Eee PC linux laptop?

[Christopher L Merrill]

Interesting...I just ran across this site earlier in the week touting
a $150 laptop.  This one is not actually available yet, either:

http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/

C

Greg Brown wrote:
> Anyone following the Asus Eee PC (laptop) thread?  I'm having a hard time
> trying to figure out if the laptop is going to be $200.00 (us) or FunkyL
> 200.00 (british pounds).  Obviously a 200 brit. pound laptop would equate to
> a $400 US laptop so that isn't quite as exciting.
> 
> http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Hands_on_with_the_ASUS_Eee/
> 
> This laptop looks like the perfect sized laptop to keep in my backpack for
> work.  I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to connect up to the
> public Wi-Fi at work, start a SSH tunnel, and check on this or that.. such a
> thing would be a royal pain with my work laptop as I'd have to disconnect
> from the work LAN, blah blah blah blah, then relocate over to the windows
> where I can pick up the ATHD Wi-Fi.
> 
> Anyway, just wondered if anyone had any opinions on the laptop.  Sure, a 4
> gig flash-based HD is tiny, but it's enough to hold all my Linux tools I
> need.
> 
> Greg


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