Eee PC
Posted on October 9, 2008
I Picked up the Eee PC 1000h, a 10″ little netbook with a suggested battery life of over 7 hours for $475 shipped. At this price, I can get a new netbook every year and I’m better off than my previous habit of buying a workstation class notebook every 3 years.
It is running Ubuntu, and can’t turn off the webcam, bluetooth, and USB, so my battery life isn’t as nice as Windows but it’s an amazing little computer. One of the most amazing things was that I used the Ubuntu 8.10 live CD and had a working desktop with visual effects comparable to Vista, modern coding tools (Eclipse), and a web development environment with working WiFi, Bluetooth, Webcam (for Skype), Audio, etc…
Ubuntu/Debian is my server operating system of choice, and I feel like it is quickly becoming my desktop operating system of choice as well.
Something of note is that there is an amazing trend of people running Mac OSX on netbooks with really great results. It is tempting to run OSX on my netbook as well since I run Macs for my workstations, but at the moment I feel very comfortable with Ubuntu.
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