[ltp] Summary: Netbook. Looking for THE machine

[Micha Feigin]

On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:38:24 -0500 (EST)
Ajai Khattri <ajai@bitblit.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Richard Neill wrote:
> 
> > Of course, you could go for the extremes. The W700 DS thinkpad weighs 
> > about 10 pounds. Or you could get a G1 googlephone weighing 5.6 oz.
> > Since you can run Debian on it and it has a real keyboard and mouse, 
> > it's pretty much a laptop ;-)
> 
> And Im posting this from a Nokia N810  ;-))))))
> 
> Oh, and Im not an Apple fanboy - I have owned a ThinkPad but with the 
> advances in recent years, netbooks have become viable for me as smaller 
> more portable developer workstations. After the Asus EEEpc I switched to 
> the HP MiniNote which I carry with me everyday.
> 
> But right now, Im seriously considering the new Sony Vaio P as an even 
> more portable workstation (about half the weight and size of the 
> MiniNote!).
> 
> 
> 

And with none of the support, as notorious as the local hp support is know to
be (don't know how it is anywhere else), Sony is much worse, and I'm talking
on more or less three continents (had dealings with usa, france and israel).
Last problem I had with them they charged me 270$ to fix a laptop under
warranty (that was with the usa support), could get anyone to talk to me in the
support, nothing other than template emails.