[kwlug disc.] asus eee

[Rick]

"Insurance Squared Inc." <gcooke at insurancesquared.com> writes:
> Was there a final consensus as to where to buy these things?  Locally
> or online?  And is there a model number that's better?  I don't think
> I need much more than a few gigs.

Canada Computers on King just north of University Avenue is good.
However, to confuse the consensus a bit, another of these "netbooks"
is now available at Canada Computers ... the Acer Aspire One which
seems to have a much better keyboard.

There's a batch of netbooks out nowadays (mostly powered by Linux)
... although ASUS/Acer seem to have better distribution.

Wikipedia has a good comparison of models:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One