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21st November 2008

So I've bitten the bullet and ordered an ASUS Eee PC 901 W006 from Amazon.

This has 1Gb of memory, 20Gb of solid-state storage, and is preloaded with Linux.

All being well it will arrive tomorrow, and then I can try installing Lenny upon it. From the Debian Wiki it seems to be a painless process. I guess we'll see..

ObFilm: Twelve Monkeys

Tags: asus, eee pc, lenny. | 3 comments.

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  1. [gravitar] Adam John Trickett Submitted at 13:12:10 on 22 November 2008
    I fancy getting an Acer Aspire One, it's a bit cheaper than the Asus. I'm told with a careful Debian install battery life of more than 12 hours is easily possible on either. Good film Twelve Monkeys...
  2. [gravitar] Steve Kemp Submitted at 15:01:25 on 22 November 2008

    I've havered over choosing a model for so long now that I just decided to pick the model that local people own.

    I've only had it a day so far, but it is very smart.

    Installing Lenny was unbelievably easy, and everything I've tried has worked with only one exception:

    • Sound si good.
    • Webcam/Camera is good.
    • Wireless & Wired networking is fine.

    The thing that fails? Flash. When I install the flash plugin from Adobe iceweasel segfaults. I'll look at that later, not a huge problem for me but a real surprise. I've got flash working on AMD64 so I assumed x86 would be easy!

    According to the battery status applet on my GNOME desktop I've got about four hours of life. Whether that is accurate I don't know. Either way I'd expect longer if the wifi is off.

  3. [gravitar] Tuss Submitted at 10:45:38 on 23 November 2008
    You could try ibam to get a more accurate battery life measurement.