From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 24 00:43:06 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 071C1106566C for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:43:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from atlmtaow02.cingularme.com (atlmtaow02.cingularme.com [66.102.165.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3278FC17 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.18.121.140] (really [166.137.139.55]) by atlmtaow01.cingularme.com (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20091124002134.QWEB29996.atlmtaow01.cingularme.com@[10.18.121.140]>; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:21:34 -0500 References: <20091123225410.GA50804@thought.org> Message-Id: <08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org> From: Doug Poland To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20091123225410.GA50804@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 7D11) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:19:50 -0600 X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (7D11) X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=in3+spk/WQObnjlfPNkKDA==:17 a=rWdDcm16AAAA:8 a=BOrWVmCmmSker4btQloA:9 a=tUWo5IVO0XlPETQpxgHYHHueglgA:4 a=jgoaQNzrKcYA:10 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 00:43:06 -0000 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.