[TriLUG] Asus Eee PC linux laptop?

[J.C. Jones]

 From Asus' website

http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=7405

An Easy Price to Swallow
Hsih also stated that ASUS plans to start shipping the units in July or 
August, with a target of selling 200,000 units this year – all under the 
ASUS brand. Amid gasps from the audience, the Eee PC units were revealed 
to come in at an extremely competitive price of around USD $199 for the 
7" units, and about USD $299 for the 10" version.

jcj

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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