Gustin, what is wrong with the SSDs?
graham On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Gustin Johnson<[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Graham Monk wrote: >> Hi Jesse >> >> This one looks like an old model, (maybe it's one of those "Droves" of >> returned units?) >> http://www.buy.com/prod/asus-eeepc900-bk028-black-intel-celeron-m-900-mhz-processor-1gb-ddr2/q/loc/101/208156958.html >> >> Price is good though. The way the Canadian Dollar is going, very good. >> > This is based on the original design (pre-Atom). I have a 701, there > are better deals based on the Atom CPU: > http://www.computertrends.com/product-zoom.asp?productid=877%20&categoryId=26 > > If it were me, I would just buy one with a hard drive and install Ubuntu > on it, probably the netbook remix. The SSDs really suck and all of the > disk based ones ship with Windows. I know you are making a point, but > that single hardware difference does make a significant performance > impact. If I did not already own 2 netbooks and a laptop, I would have > already done this. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpqOgoACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNf7QCcCu7Kh0Qh6WTTnNuTZSov+Fcb > PH0AoI0aXjBu149f6P+3cwUrhXwUM/io > =THEb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
