|
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
|
Re: [PLUG] Jaunty on Mini-9
|
Art and Alex,
I'll throw in my thoughts as a user of the Eee 1000. I'm a graduate
student. When I started at Penn, I bought an HP tablet with Vista. It
worked, but never really up to all that I had hoped. At this point, I
use it for CAD and taxes (what I'm doing now). I got the Eee a few
months back because my 12 in tablet is almost 7 lbs, too heavy for my
hour long (one way) commute on the train everyday. That 7 lbs also
excludes the extra battery I have to carry. I'm using Xandros with KDE
on the Eee, with Thunderbird as an "off line" mail client. I also use
Amarok for playing music off my ipod when I can also plug the Eee in.
But with the 6-8 hour battery life, I really don't carry the power
adapter often. I also use Matlab on it, very often. Yes, that would be
better suited to a bigger notebook or a desktop, but with SVN, the Eee
is just a satellite computer for me. Things that didn't come installed
with Xandros that I think are a must : latex, rsync, svn, and KDE. Yes,
mostly (first three) all light weight stuff, but it just shows that
netbooks have many uses.
Cheers,
Kyle
Art Alexion wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 02:15:21 pm Alex Launi wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Not the one I downloaded, but I installed evolution after the fact
>>> because I
>>> feel email is one of the main purposes of a netbook, and find webmail
>>> cumbersome and unsatisfactory.
>>>
>> Then apparently you did not have the standard eeebuntu image-
>> http://www.eeebuntu.org/index.php?page=standard
>> So you find webmail cumbersome, yet you use evolution, which is one of the
>> heaviest mail clients available for the free desktop. Interesting..
>>
>
> Nothing to do with "weight". I hate webmail's 2-dimensional navigation. I
> work in a Microsoft shop, and no open source client does Exchange better.
>
>
>
>>> It doesn't install the database component. I would definitely want
>>> Writer, Calc and Impress installed. Draw is probably unnecessary.
>>>
>> It's all unnecessary, remember what we're talking about here. This is a *
>> netbook.* It's not a full laptop, it's not meant to be. Specifically my
>> post was about the eeepc 901 so disk space is a huge issue.
>>
>
> OK. We use the 1000 s which have an 8GB ssd and a 32 GB ssd. The people I
> configure netbooks for are MS Office users who are traveling. They want to use
> spreadsheets, write letters and sometimes run presentations. Yet, they like
> the battery life, weight and size. It fits into their luggage rather than
> being another piece of luggage.
>
>
>
>> First I think that is a chocolate vs. vanilla thing. Second, I think we
>> are
>>
>>
>>> talking different [sub]distros as so many of the things you mention
>>> aren't installed on any of the 5 eee netbooks I have configured.
>>>
>> Again, you're not talking about what is in the standard eeebuntu image. I
>> don't know what you downloaded, but it wasn't the standard image.
>>
>
> I installed from ubuntu-eee.com which now redirects to geteasypeasy.com. It
> is the 8.04 LTS version.
>
>
>
>> Ours hold 32 gigs of data (in addition to 8 gigs that I install the system
>>
>>
>>> files to). I like to listen to music while I do things. I don't
>>> necessarily
>>> want to depend on streaming to hear my music.
>>>
>> Then you're not using an eee901, and we're talking about different things.
>> Don't reply to my comments using an entirely different context, it just
>> makes us both look stupid.
>>
>
> I'm not talking about a totally different product here. This is the next model
> up from the same manufacturer. I wasn't interested in making you look stupid,
> I was interested in what you thought was unnecessary, and what you thought was
> useful. Like I said, I configure these for others, so I am interested in what
> others want.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org
> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
>
___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
|
|