I was expecting waay more than 3.5 hours.<br>Really disappointing for me (imho).<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Wright</b> <<a href="mailto:pete@nomadlogic.org">pete@nomadlogic.org
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<br>> Yarema wrote:<br>>> --On Friday, September 07, 2007 22:21:15 -0400 Isaac Levy<br>>> <<a href="mailto:ike@lesmuug.org">ike@lesmuug.org</a>><br>>> wrote:<br>>><br>>>> BTW- Lee in midtown said late-month availability on the first
<br>>>> models... I want the cheapest model, small screen and all.<br>>><br>>> The were officially announced today:<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://EeePC.ASUS.com/en/product.htm">http://EeePC.ASUS.com/en/product.htm
</a><br>>><br>>> Last I heard they will be sold through BestBuy and NewEgg.<br>>> <a href="http://www.DailyTech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9268">http://www.DailyTech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9268</a><br>>>
<br>>> Dunno about *retail* pricing, but looks to be higher than $200 we first<br>>> hoped for.<br>>> The 8G looks nice with 1G RAM...<br>>><br>><br>> I have been following the wiki and the unofficial sites on the EEE, plus
<br>> hassling a vendor on it.<br>><br>> Some off-list discussions I've had on it have started with others going<br>> "why?" or "who cares?"<br>><br>> But I think there's a number of reasons why these EEEs will be cool.
<br>><br>> First, low power consumption, a la the client version of a Soekris box.<br>><br>> Second, for those who can sacrifice power for physical portability, this<br>> will work nice even as a non-X laptop. I've given up dragging around
<br>> any laptops as I've aged, even at 4.5 lbs. :-(<br>><br><br><br>heck i can think of a couple nice uses for this thing - it'd make desktop<br>support engineers lives a little easier when doing deskside repairs. hmm
<br>- what's 3-beeps during POST mean again etc...<br><br>it'd even be a nice compliment to a datacenter if it has a serial console<br>(or usb) for configuring switches, filers etc. i'm using an old dell c400
<br>now for this now, so i don't have to lug my macbook around, but something<br>this inexpensive with wifi and decent battery life would be perfect.<br><br>-p<br><br>--<br>~~oO00Oo~~<br>Peter Wright<br><a href="mailto:pete@nomadlogic.org">
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