Netbooks

Offer-smite brought a new nc10 into the office yesterday, so I
unpacked it for him and checked that it would boot ubuntu off my USB stick.
Took a ruler to it, and its keyboard is 22 cm across, compared to my
Medion (a.k.a. MSI Wind, Advent, etc) which is 22.5. Surprisingly its
display is a few mm wider than mine (I'd have thought they all used the same
panel, but apparently not). First impression was that my touch-pad is
better than his, too.

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Where did you get it at that price? I've been reading that Asda are
doing them for that price, but haven't seen on-line.

Thanks

 

We don't pay VAT in the channel islands. I bought it from Amazon.co.uk
and got free shipping.

 

Underground Railway Request : Channel Islands to London please.

 

Unfortunately, to escape VAT it has to be a /permanent/ export!

 

Thank you! Now I have reason to get a new mobo and multicore processor:
2.5 hours to transcode a 1.5 hour film! Time to say goodbye to the Athlon
3200+? It's been a good and faithful servant and done everything I needed
- until now, you bastard

Oh and it's not me with bloatware, mine's running ubuntu UMPC edition.

 

Synaptics, I believe. It doesn't seem to have the shortcomings
I've seen mentioned for the alternative, and I might have seen a Synaptics
driver in my poking around...

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Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

It is Dogs way of telling you to get an I7, my poorly aged Q6600 will
rip a DVD (using DVD::Rip) in about 45 minutes. Ubuntu is probably the
one-true-path, but I'm a bit of a SUSE whore these days, in as much as I
can get it to do what I want. Apart from the sound system, ALSA sucks.