[Novalug] Netbook Advice: Aspire vs. Dell

[Brandon Saxe]

DAMN. I bought that in December for $300. Sheesh! I guess I wasn't patient enough.

Oh well. I like it a lot. I haven't gotten to use it too much, but so far it's really slick. I'm still running Linpus Lite, but plan on moving to Arch as soon as i can (apparently there's a whole custom base Arch install for Acer Aspire One). I ordered the extended battery from Provantage and looking forward to using it more as my thin client/desktop and VM management console.



--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com> wrote:

> From: Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com>
> Subject: [Novalug] Netbook Advice: Aspire vs. Dell
> To: "Eldo Varghese" <poningru at ufl.edu>, "NOVALUG" <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 2:03 PM
> Trying to decide between these:
> 
> http://ur1.ca/1j86
> Dell Inspiron Mini 9n
> $249
> 512MB DDR2 at 533MHz
> 4GB SSD
> Ubuntu
> 
> http://ur1.ca/1j87
> Acer Aspire One
> $239
> 1GB DDR2 533
> 16GB SSD
> Linpus
> 
> They're mostly the same otherwise. Is it worth paying
> more for the
> weaker Dell? (Increasing the Dell's stats to meet
> Acer's brings the cost
> to $349.)
> 
> -- 
> Gavin Baker
> http://www.gavinbaker.com/
> gavin at gavinbaker.com
> 
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> sharing it with as
> many people as possible -- and I don't think anyone
> else has, either.
>     Bill Hooker
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