[MLUG] MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[Jean-Francois Theroux]

I sure will buy the Linux one at Microbytes. It's about 40$ cheaper once the
Microsoft tax is gone. The Eee is also interesting. Larger SSD drive, larger
screen. Cons: Celeron CPU, higher priced. Either of them seem to come
preloaded with a weird distro. I intend to run PuppyLinux on it. Mainly to
reduce the OS memory/storage footprint.

Can you do the following on the AA1? The net isn't being helpful here:

- Tv-out on the VGA port? I'd get a VGA to S-Video converter to connect to
my TV.
- Capture packets on the wifi interface? Need that for security jobs.

As far as storage performance is concerned, there seems to be lots of tips
on increasing its speed out there. Worst case, for the ~80$ difference with
the Eee, I could mod the SSD.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Jeremy <me at jeremychapman.info> wrote:

> Jean-Francois Theroux wrote:
> > A Futureshop flyer for boxing day announce the Acer Aspire One with a
> > SSD 8GB + 8GB SD card. 1GB of RAM for 350$. Sadly, it comes with the
> > MS tax and a copy of XP. I can't seem to find any store in Montreal
> > that carry the Linux ones (at least from information found on their
> > website). If anyone knows where I can get one, please let me know.
> I have both the Aspire (linpus version, 512 shipped, upped to 1GB) and
> the eeepc (4G linux version upped to 2G RAM), and seriously, I think the
> eeepc is the way to go. The Aspire's SSD is really slow, and the card
> readers do not work well enough to permanently mount system partitions
> (or even /home) (unfortunately eeepc's card reader sucks too, but the
> SSD is faster).
>
> The eeepc is solid, serious, and actually faster (cheaper by 100 too I
> think). Not to mention upgrading to 2GB RAM is simple, while the Aspire
> is limited to what you are getting, and even if you can upgrade, it is a
> serious task, you have to dismantle the entire system, while the eee has
> a slot in back you open.
>
> It is obviously a personal choice, I thought the faster CPU would make a
> big difference, but combined with less RAM and a slower drive on the
> Acer, the eeepc is actually snappier.
>
> I think both linux OSes they ship with are pretty lame, so either way
> you may want to change the OS.
>
> Try hard to buy the linux version (microbytes), just so we encourage 'em
> :).
>
> Jeremy
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-- 
Jean-François Théroux
Linux/network security consultant
http://www.theroux.ca
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