[ale] netbooks - what is good with Linux?

[Benjie]

Dave, I have an Acer D250 running Ubuntu Netbook remix ( I like the
remix interface better than stock Gnome.)  I am happy with everything
but the keyboard, but that seems to be a universal netbook issue ;-)
I get about 2.5 hours to a charge on the stock 3-cell battery.  Its
been good for traveling, Starbucks, etc.  I get decent mp3 playback
with headphones, skype is working for me.  There are some threads
about the microphone not working, but I haven't had any issues.  Nice
size display too.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Thompson Freeman
<tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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