From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 24 00:40:40 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB97106566C for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9E78FC0C for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAO0eI1h010177; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:40:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:40:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:40:35 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Doug Poland Message-ID: <20091124004035.GA51168@thought.org> References: <20091123225410.GA50804@thought.org> <08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: hp 10-in mini? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:40:40 -0000 On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:19:50PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2009, at 16:54, Gary Kline 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