Tag: netbook remix

Of Course Netbook Sales Are On The Rise

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Is it any wonder that sales of netbooks are on the rise? The Guardian posted this at the start of the week and I’ve had the tab open in Firefox since then to write about this. The features race on the regular desktop market has been over for a while. The increases in CPU speed and memory don;t affect the average consumer any more. Storage is one area that is growing given the requirements of digital media, but really we should be teaching people to buy a new hard drive rather than a whole new desktop. There will always be

How To Get Ubuntu Netbook Remix on your Asus EEE PC

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More fiddling on the Asus EEE 901, and more confirmation on why Linux really isn’t yet ready for the mainstream. You may recall that the EEE comes with either Windows XP (which needs little introduction) or a custom build of Xandros which I jokingly call “My First Fisher Price Computer.” The thing is, that Xandros, even in Easy Mode, is pretty slick, and does most of what I need a machine to do (which nowadays means a decent Web Browser, word processor and possibly an IMAP email client). So why go fiddling with new operating system installation? To be honest