[clug] ASUS Eee PC 1000 solid state with LINUX

[Chris Smart]

2008/9/9 steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>:
> Impressive review of the Mini 9 - compares it with ASUS and Macbook Air:
> <http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3399>
>
> The review says it comes with Ubuntu for "$349".
Yeah, only in the States. Interesting notes about the build quality.
That's something I didn't think about, mostly because I've never seen
a real Mini 9!

>
> Dell.com.au says: $599 + delivery ($49?) and Win XP SP3 :-(

Yeah, it's a shame that here they are only selling a Windows version.
http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/09/09/dell-joins-the-fray/

-c