Comments on: Penguicon, Netbooks, Oh My

By: DS

DS — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:10:57 +0000

Do you know when Circuit City will carry the HP Mini 1000 Mi? The link redirects to a bankruptcy/liquidation announcement.

By: Jarrad

Jarrad — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:47:27 +0000

I’ve got a Toshiba Portégé R500 and it’s fantastic, I managed to wangle an SSD version for a great price, but the HDD version should be almost as good. I’m running Sidux with kde42.debian.net and it’s bloody fantastic, only problem is the lack of bluetooth but a kernel update should fix that soon, the Ubuntu kernel comes pre-patched so it will certainly work there.

800 grams worth of Linux ownage!

By: nixternal

nixternal — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:30:24 +0000

@Paulo: that mini vga adaptor for Apples does not work as there is no mini vga port on anything other than Apple products. What is needed is a USB to VGA adaptor which I have found on Newegg for around $50.

By: nmuntz

nmuntz — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:04:49 +0000

The HP 2140 looks great – but it’s out of the netbook price range. Too expensive, for the same price I rather buy the Thinkpad X300.

By: Dimble

Dimble — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:14:48 +0000

Try the new HP 2140 – business netbook

Great keyboard
has a VGA connection
excellent screen @ 1366×768
now uses Atom instead of Via

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:44:23 +0000

If you are going to kubuntu you must be advised that nepomuk won’t work. The backend used for it is the slowest and there are other problem so if you prefer to have you CPU used for other things than “not doing” the indexing you will have to turn it off. Problem known and ignored but kubuntu and I think that nepomuk is one of the cool KDE4 feature so I don’t think that the choice made by kubuntu is very good…