<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Ben Rousch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brousch@gmail.com">brousch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Yowzer. 16GB and below have seen<br>
> big price drops. 32GB haven't yet.<br>
> But Puppy Linux is less than 100MB,<br>
> perhaps compressed. It does all the<br>
> common things: seamonkey browzer,<br>
> scanning, e-mail. One can sit in front<br>
> of the TV and surf and send e-mail.<br>
> Here again, it all depends on one's needs,<br>
> but for me 32B would not be useful, and<br>
> 160GB certainly not.<br>
> -- Bob<br>
<br>
</div>If you'd like something more full-featured than Puppy, you can squeeze<br>
Ubuntu Karmic UNR onto 4GB, and be very comfortable with 8GB.<br>
<font color="#888888"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"> </font></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Something to think about. But for</div><div>me a netbook would be something </div>
<div>to haul around in the car, and just </div><div>be something to surf and do e-mail</div><div>with wherever I can get a Wi-Fi signal.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>