Linux @ Currys Asus Laptop

[ade234uk]

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/804069

Excellent news.

[PetePete]

hehe i love the way they call it a "7" Widescreen Display" :lolflag:

[rax_m]

Damn.. why am I no longer staying in the UK !!
Unfortunately it will probably take another 6 months before the Eeepc is available in South Africa. :(

[Daveski]

Wow, not just OEMs providing Linux to those 'in the know' enough to search for it, but real live high-street stores selling this lovely little Linux machine.

[The Grum]

Toys R Us also sell them.

I tried to have a go on one there, but none of the staff knew the password to log in. :(

Still, the login screen was nice.

[kaboodle_fish]

In the full product specification section it says:

"Your software depends on the Operating System to make the computer functional. Look for Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (or MAC OS X v10.5 Leopard on Apple Computers)"

Gosh that is news to me. There was me thinking that the EeePC wasn't even Vista certified and ran perfectly well enough with the installed Linux OS.

You live and learn eh?

[frup]

In the full product specification section it says:

"Your software depends on the Operating System to make the computer functional. Look for Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (or MAC OS X v10.5 Leopard on Apple Computers)"

Gosh that is news to me. There was me thinking that the EeePC wasn't even Vista certified and ran perfectly well enough with the installed Linux OS.

You live and learn eh?


Isn't that false advertising?

[ice60]

i told my friend to get one, he got rid of his last computer. i want to see what it's like becuase i want one too. do you think you can use it as your only computer??

[kaboodle_fish]

Isn't that false advertising?

I'm not sure but it sure as hell is misleading and inaccurate

[ice60]

I tried to have a go on one there, but none of the staff knew the password to log in. :(

did you try root? can you log in with root?, i want to know, i'm going to have a look at it tomorrow :D

[Joeb454]

I'm sure you could probably log in as root, it depends if there's been a password set for root or not :)

[ice60]

i'm going straight to PCWorld and logging in as root lol

[Joeb454]

Lol, try and reboot it into the full KDE desktop instead of the simple one, and see how many people think it's some new version of Windows ;)

[frup]

Take a liveCD/ Bootable usb key and see if it loads it :D then you can chroot in and change the passwords :D

[ice60]

yeah, well i just noticed at the top right of the page it says -
"not available for delivery"
"not available to collect at store"
:|
has anyone seen them in the shop?

[el_ricardo]

check out the full spec, apparantly it's 916kg in weight lol!

[Mazza558]

check out the full spec, apparantly it's 916kg in weight lol!

Haha! Now owners of this laptop can boast that it's nearly as heavy as a car!

[intense.ego]

You can get the same pc for 10 quid less off ebuyer -> http://www.ebuyer.com/search/?qfind=eee&x=0&y=0

To top that off you can get the 4g version for £220 from play.com -> http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/6-/Search.html?searchstring=eee&searchtype=PCSH&searchsource=0

[inversekinetix]

less that 3 hours battery life. when will they actully make a subnotebook that has a usuable battery life.