$160 netbook

[jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org]

My bad didn't mean dual 1.6.  The mini just has the single core 1.6 atom. But I do find its more than enough to be my primary moble platform. My full size 1420n has been delegated to couch and bed duty, the mini goes with me everywhere. The big deal breaker on the netbooks is going with a full gig of ram, makes them so much more usable. 

Only negative with the mini is the keyboard layout.  Makes it slow for coding because symbol keys and function keys are not in their stadard places due to space constraints. But you'll get this with any netbook. 

The ubuntu hybrid that dell uses is also pretty well done. All the features of full ubuntu desktop but works well on the smaller screen. And another big plus is that all the addons (ram, flash, wireless) are user accessible through a bottom panel with two screws.  

------Original Message------
From: Jarod Wilson
To: Tom Metro
Cc: jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Cc: L BLU
Sent: Mar 4, 2009 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: $160 netbook

On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> jay-R5TnC2l8y5lBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>
>> I spent a bit more than twice that on my mini with 1gig ram, dual 1.6
>> atom, and 20 gigs of flash space 3 months ago.
>
> Dual CPU? I didn't know they had such a thing in this class of  
> machine,
> or that the Atom CPU was designed for that.

I'm not aware of any dual-core netbooks yet, but there are definitely  
dual-core (and x86_86) atom procs out there now. In fact, I have one. :)

The atom 330 on my littlefalls2 mini-itx board is a 64-bit dual-core.

--jarod




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