[ltp] Re: Re: OT: Netbook. Looking for THE machine

[Axel Braun]

Karsten König wrote:

> Am Montag 09 März 2009 12:52:33 schrieb Axel Braun:
>> Just a quick impression from this years CEBIT exhibition in Hannover
> 
> I've been there as well =)

And we did not meet by chance? *gg*
 
>> - ASUS will stop shipping its eepc with Linux. Looks like Microsoft put a
>> lot of pressure on them - more guys with MS-badge standing around the
>> eepc than ASUS-employees. That means for me: Good-bye ASUS!
> 
> But they sure had the nicest ideas as far as I have seen on Cebit,
> otherwise I've been disappointed, except for the open source area and the
> ebooks.

Yes these fold-laptopswere really nice... 

>> - MSI...I only found one location in the reseller hall (which I couldnt
>> enter). Saw too late that they were in a second location as well.
> 
> I've been on that second location and was heavily disappointed, the X320
> and X340 are looking very good and thin, but they are as flexy as cheap
> breadboxes (stullenbüchsen), they flexed a lot and didn't look very
> robust, typing sure didn't feel good.

that does not sound too good...

>> So...looks like the mini 9 is still the favorite.
> 
> If you don't want to hurry maybe wait for the upcomming ARM netbooks,
> newsreports mention them alot in the past month, and you sure won't pay
> any MS tax on these ;) They propably have a much longer battery runtime,
> and linux has most applications running on ARM as well, so if time and x86
> are no requirements waiting might be an option.

the problem with hardware is...if you start waiting for the
next/better/nicer thing, you will never come to the point to buy one :-)

Best,
Axel
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