[ale] netbooks - what is good with Linux?

[Thompson Freeman]

On 01/23/2010 08:08:22 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
> to the group,
> 
>    been looking at netbooks, and it looks like the
> performance is
> actually getting tolerable with the new N450
> (which has hyperthreading). Curious regarding ALE'ers
> opinions re
> netbooks and Linux (particularly with Ubuntu).
> Any particular brands to seek out or avoid?
> 
I'm quite happy with the ASUS 901 I picked up last year.  
Keyboard could be better, but for what I want it to do (be  
portable web surf and emergency light word processing) it's  
just fine. It's running Ubuntu happily.

YMMV of course.