Guilty, guilty your honor!<br>
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There's probly an ALE talk in this if I can get myself together enough. Hey! I'd love to see the EEE at a meeting!<br>
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-- CHS<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/15/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">tom</b> <<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Complete topic drift in two responses...<br> OK.<br> <br> I LOVE my n810 (and the n770 I have, but that is another story) I dropped<br> a little extra for a blue tooth GPS unit (Nokia has one like most<br> everybody else) which keeps the GPS reception good while passing the n810<br>
around. SSH works well for checking the stuff at home, although the<br> keyboard is a bear to work with for longer periods of time for me.<br> <br><br> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Charles Shapiro wrote:<br> <br> > Heh. I just dropped $350 on a Nokia N810 (<br>
> <a href="http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810">http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810</a> ) and am pretty happy with<br> > it so far. It's running Maemo ( <a href="http://maemo.org/">http://maemo.org/</a> ) on a 400 mhz TI "OMAP"<br>
> processor in 2 gb of mass storage and 128 mb of RAM. Other hardware<br> > features include a mini-SD slot, sound through speakers or 'phones, a pretty<br> > sensitive touch-screen and integrated stylus, a slide-out keyboard, a<br>
> microphone, a camera, and an on-board GPS receiver. The whole package is<br> > about 8 ounces and maybe 5x3x1/4 inches. Battery life is good if you turn<br> > off the networking, so-so if you're connected or searching for a connection.<br>
><br> > It picks up wifi pretty very well, and it allegedly can connect with<br> > bluetooth as well. The browser has a flash player installed and is capable<br> > enough to run gmail or watch youtube without issues. The GPS is pretty ok<br>
> but doesn't acquire as fast as my Garmin Etrex Legend. The included case is<br> > pretty basic, so I'm considering buying a spiffier one. Getting a waterproof<br> > case may prove difficult; I'm currently keeping it inside a plastic bag<br>
> since I occasionally wind up outdoors in the rain.<br> ><br> > The dev kit is easy to install on kubuntu, although it'll be next week when<br> > I try using it. The machine allegedly supports python, although I've run<br>
> into apt(8) troubles trying to install it on the very latest & greatest OS.<br> > There's clearly a bunch of interesting and relatively quick projects still<br> > to be done -- for starters, GPE ( <a href="http://gpe.handhelds.org/">http://gpe.handhelds.org/</a> ) doesn't appear<br>
> to have a shopping list app, something I use weekly on my Palm 3XE..<br> ><br> > Alas, matchbox ( <a href="http://matchbox-project.org/">http://matchbox-project.org/</a> ) currently supports scroll<br> > bars _only_ on the right side, a big trouble on a touch-screen/stylus driven<br>
> machine if you're sinistral. Of course, matchbox is also FOSS.. Hmm.<br> ><br> > -- CHS<br> ><br> ><br> > On 7/15/08, tom <<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br> >> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Henry wrote:<br> >><br> >>> Hi,<br> >>><br> >>> Is there anywhere I can look at the eee and similar computers in<br> >>> Atlanta? It is important that I can actually see and use them, because<br>
>>> their form factor is so integral to their value.<br> >>><br> >>> So far, I've come up with Frys, BrandsMart, and Microcenter. Last I<br> >>> looked on their website (it is down now), Frys did not have the eee<br>
>>> there. Microcenter and Brandsmart do have the eee, but their selection<br> >>> appears limited (no 900, which I think I am most interested in, for<br> >>> instance).<br> >><br> >><br>
>> Well, if you can stand the utter oddness of it, I've seen eeepcs at a few<br> >> Target big box stores (Charlotte), and I _think_ it was the 900 but I'm<br> >> not going to swear to that. I think it is the first time I've seen a<br>
>> computer stocked at Target, and not all of them by a long shot.<br> >><br> >><br> >><br> >> _______________________________________________<br> >> Ale mailing list<br> >> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
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