I believe it is still a SSD. Its appealing to me to do little things
like skype, email, etc. Its really small and portable. The cheapest
one is ~$300.
-jmz
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:54 PM, <
fouldragon@aol.com> wrote:
>
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> Is it still a SSD?
>
> Honestly, I'd be willing to take the performance hit and use a
> bargain-priced 32Gb CF card as hard disc. I really wish I could
> justify an EEE. My old IBM 385XD finally bit the dust, and so I could
> use a laptop... the EEE offers a well-integrated, almost Mac-like in
> that sense, package, without being more horsepower than I really need
> to run Firefox and a SSH client.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com>
>
> To: mmarch@gmail.com; Main PLUG discussion list
> <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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> Sent: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 1:09 pm
> Subject: Re: OLPC
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>
> ah, so you get more HD with the Linux version?
>
> despite this I still think the factors I cite are valid.
>
> -jmz
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Michael March <mmarch@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The new Linux based 9 inch eee has a 20GB hd while the XP version has
> a 12GB
> hd.
> >
> > Pretty cool in my eyes.
> >
> > --
> > <march>
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Joshua Zeidner" <jjzeidner@gmail.com>
> >
> > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:52:53
> > To:"Main PLUG discussion list"
> <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > Subject: Re: OLPC
> >
> >
> > A similar thing with eeePC. Asus offers no difference in price if
> > you run Windows. I think M$ sees this as a major threat to their
> > market share and are willing to do whatever it takes to stop Linux
> > users from being created. You can be sure the high costs you are
> used
> > to will be amortized over a longer period and embedded in difficult
> > structures.
> >
> > On the positive side, this means you stand to have M$ eating out of
> > your hand if you get in the low-cost laptop market.
> >
> > I consider it to be quite unscrupulous of the OLPC team to run
> > programs like G1G1 and then sell out to M$. No wonder the OLPC
> > president resigned.
> >
> > -jmz
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mike Garfias <mike@garfias.org>
> wrote:
> > >
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/23/olpc-scrap-linux-windows
> > >
> > > Looks like they're going to ditch linux and run windows.
> > >
> > > Ugh.
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