[ale] eee in Atlanta

[Charles Shapiro]

Guilty, guilty your honor!

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!


-- CHS


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