<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:30 AM, John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<div class="im">On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:10:23AM -0400, David Wise wrote:<br>> I have a friend with an EeePC 900 that I am considering picking up for my<br>> wife. It originally came with Windows XP, but has been running Kubuntu for<br>
> some time now. I'll be wiping it and starting from scratch and am wondering<br>> what the desktop environment or even distribution of choice is around here.<br>> I am most leaning toward installing LMDE, but I am open to changing that<br>
> with the right arguments.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have a EeePC 901 with 2GB RAM. It's basically the same as the 900 but includes a crappy webcam and an Atom CPU. I've run regular Ubuntu and Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. It is plenty fast running these standard distros. The SSD is screamin'.</div>
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<div class="im">><br>> I'm really looking for something with a decent amount of polish, but<br>> preferably a relatively light footprint. I just saw Ubuntu Netbook remix<br>> with the Unity desktop (whatever that is) and it looks quite intriguing. I'm<br>
> just kind of shying away from Ubuntu since I'd rather not have to reinstall<br>> every six months.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Come on now. You could sit on an LTS release (Ubuntu 10.04) for up to 3 years or you can 'sudo do-release-upgrade' and upgrade over the Internet. I had one desktop at work that I upgraded through every release from 6.06 through 10.04 without reinstalling.</div>
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<div class="im">> It's an older EeePC 900 with I believe a celeron Mobile processor and an 8GB<br>> SSD, but it has been upgraded to 2GB RAM. On second thought, is this even a<br>> decent deal for $100?<br></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>$100 sounds about right to me. I paid $280 for my 901 two years ago including the 2GB RAM update and a 32GB SSD.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<div class="im"><br></div>The RAM will be a huge help. The SSD is decent. With USB storage it<br>should be a fine system so long as you realize the limitations (video<br>playback will be meh, etc.) of the platform. Netbooks aren't just<br>
smaller, lighter laptops; they're a different breed altogether.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It does struggle with h264 (mp4) video and full screen YouTube. I haven't really noticed any other problems.</div>
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