[SGVLUG] Linux netbook for $150

[Jana Lingo]

Well it was too good of a deal to pass up!
I'l try and report when I get it

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Emerson, Tom
(*IC)<Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- Of Dan Borne
>> Am Dienstag 30 Juni 2009 14:07:01 schrieb Emerson, Tom (*IC):
>> > [...]
>> > Interesting to read the customer reviews though...
>>
>> There were only six reviews. The vast majority, five of them,
>> were quite
>> positive in their evaluations. The one that was not complained about
>> a lack of a cd or dvd drive and, for all intense and
>> purposes, how they
>> did not know how to use a computer.
>
> What I found interesting of the "positive" reviews was the fact that nobody seemed to "notice" they weren't using windows  (though I suspect they did, it was a fact that was "below the radar" so far as discussing it)
>
>> I found the following question, derived from the woman's silly
>> response, interesting: how many of us here actually use cds and dvds
>> with any frequency? Since we are not using any proprietary software,
>> there does not seem to me to be any incentive short of maybe
>> reinstalling an operating system.
>
> Backups, perhaps?  Granted, with the device you get 10gb hosted "somewhere" on the web, but that requires a decent 'net connection whenever you want to create or access a backup.
>
> Yes, a thumb drive can be as effective (especially since they are re-writable, but you can get DVD-RW's...)  but the media cost is still a factor ($10+ for a 4GB thumb drive vs. $0.25 or less for a DVD)
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