Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:58:35 -0500 From: "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org>, "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: hp 10-in mini? Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9015E48BB@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <20091124004035.GA51168@thought.org> References: <20091123225410.GA50804@thought.org><08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org> <20091124004035.GA51168@thought.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. We have been purchasing the Lenovo s-10's lately (ideapad) specs *seem* the same; As most of these "netbooks" are, But we are a windows shop and being an NGO 299.00 was quite appealing as was the 2.3lbs. Ive sent them out to Africa and Latin America, I used one on a trip down there used it for 16 hours a day without a hiccup. But as you mentioned they do not come with optical drive bays, but with with 4/8/16 gig flash drives no one really cares- I have also purchased those "mini-mice" with retractable cords http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MRQVCW for some users- I mainly used it to connect to my servers via citrix and thought it was good Processor Intel Atom Processor N270 1.6G 10.1 LED Glossy,1024*600 1 x 1, GB DDR2 SDRAM 1066MHz SODIMM Memory 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapter Broadcom BCM4312 M 802.11G WLAN S10-2 series 3 cell 2600 Ah Black battery 1Year Warranty Mind sending me the link to those 200.00 HP's TIA
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