Petros wrote:
Quoting "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>
Any suggestions on what netbook to buy?
Did you have any success? I am probably in the same boat, my little Samsung 10 inch netbook is not getting younger, and I had a scare recently (but it was a lose connector only, I have it quite often in a bicycle basket - not the smoothest way of transport)
Not yet. The T100 looks good because it's 1) Bay Trail; and 2) apparently underpriced for its specs. (The 32-bit EFI is still a show stopper IMO.) Bay Trail came out around 2013Q3, which is why everything else still has crap battery life. I'm considering an 11" E-series thinkpad instead, because a 2.5" SATA slow, 2 DIMM slots and a PCIe slot are all desirable. I'm just not sure if they're desirable ENOUGH to win out over double-the-battery life, passive cooling, smaller, and lighter. Someone mentioned an 11" Macbook Air, which falls into broadly the same class as a thinkpad only more expensive and (I presume) less upgradable over time (e.g. I assume its SSD is soldered on, like the current generation powerbooks).
I took Chris' suggestion and found http://www.linuxnow.com.au/nsasusX202E-CT259H.html
At a glance, that looks similar to a thinkpad; bit lighter and less expensive. I like the lapspecs.com thing it links to.
I just wonder how to use the touchscreen efficiently. Does anyone has experience with a notebook touchscreen under Linux? Which desktop do you use?
My TF100 has a touchscreen. I don't use it at all except occasionally for scrolling in epdfview (undocked from the keyboard), or very very rarely for trying to click things in midori (which invariably fails because the text is a lot smaller than my finger). I'm not running any desktop, I just do "startx /usr/bin/epdfview foo.pdf". I don't have any of that uTouch multitouch stuff.
http://netrunner-mag.com/?p=3385 suggests the MacBook Air - the only problem seems the boot complication and the camera does not work..
Another thing that was suggested is current gen chromebooks. I didn't find that actually looked interesting, though.