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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:19:50 -0600
From:      Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: hp 10-in mini?
Message-ID:  <08E02FC2-BCEF-4234-B465-4E88115BAF5D@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091123225410.GA50804@thought.org>
References:  <20091123225410.GA50804@thought.org>

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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. 



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