Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:55:51 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?] Message-ID: <20090621215551.GD63381@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4A3EA338.20403@onetel.com> References: <20090621055235.GA60649@thought.org> <4A3E879F.6020708@hdk5.net> <20090621194200.GC63029@thought.org> <20090621203249.GA63381@thought.org> <4A3EA338.20403@onetel.com>
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:16:40PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > >>On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: > > > There's a wiki devoted to FreeBSD on Asus eee > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee > > last edited 2009-05-31 outstanding; i'm looking at the top-of-page rt now:) > > I personally think Asus desktop motherboards are going downhill, based > on my very small sample of two old ones going strong and one recent one > defunct, plus that funny marketing smell that creeps in - "Rock Solid, > Heart Touching" geez. my asus days date pre-2000 when there was a builtin asus-SCSI controller. and at the time anything scsi was a must. marketing folks rate somewhere _beneath_ used-car salesmen, IMHO. there is some saying about needs vs wants, and it's the marketing guys who get us to need <<whatever>>. ..... > On the other hand the guys in the component level > laptop repair shop I had to take my HP laptop to recently, told me they > get fewer Asus laptops in for repair than anything, even thinkpads. > (They get mostly HP :-< ) ouch! i've got two critical hp kayaks from 1998. been praying to the hp-gods:) ---well, until i can get a real live human nerd over here to help me replace them. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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