Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:40:35 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? Message-ID: <20091124004035.GA51168@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org> References: <20091123225410.GA50804@thought.org> <08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org>
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:19:50PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2009, at 16:54, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > gang, > > > > I rarely glance at any come-on advertisement, but I just got > > one by amazon that has a $380 HP Mini 10" computer for $200. > > > > I want to use something about this size for my type-and-speech > > computer. I'm thinking more of the ASUS 9" notebook. What > > are people's thoughts on this? > > > > (Yes, this is still an attempt to drive sales in a bad > > downturn. etc. Still, altho these tiny computers many be > > manufactured in the same plant by the same corporation, it may > > not make any difference.) > > > > anybody on-list who cares to share? > > > > gary > > > My wife has one of these running XP. I've booted and run both 7.1- > RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 from external USB. It's a nice little piece of > hardware. Unfortunately, the wireless chipset was not recognized. I > did not pursue it any further. thanks muchly; this helps a lot. additional question or two: one, could you tell which chipset hp used. [i admit my pro-hp bias given my server bias, going into its 12th year]. also, are mice and cd/dvd drives available? --or would i be stuck with a swine in a poke?? tx agn. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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