...and it also responds to voice commands.<br><br>It really is an amazing machine. The Xandros installation works very, very well.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 19/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Les Gray
</b> <<a href="mailto:lgray@bigpond.net.au">lgray@bigpond.net.au</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;"><br>
Am Donnerstag, den 17.01.2008, 22:10 -0800 schrieb Dov:<br>> G'day Andrew,<br>><br>> I just checked out the Good Guys webs, and found not only an Acer, but<br>> a tiny little Asus laptop with the OS marked as Linux.
<br>><br>> Very nice to see...<br>><br>> Dov<br><br>That's the ASUS Eee PC, which was briefly discussed on this list not<br>long ago. It comes pre-installed with a customised version of Xandros<br>which, like Ubuntu, is based on Debian.
<br><br>Without wanting to sound like an ad, this thing is a great piece of kit.<br>It's got both wifi and ethernet networking, Intel graphics with dual<br>monitor support, HD audio with built-in speakers and input/output jacks,
<br>3 USB 2.0 ports, webcam, plus an SD/SDHC card slot. It runs on a 4 GB<br>internal flash drive, though some models come with a 2 GB or an 8 GB one<br>(which I don't think are available in Australia). The max. battery life
<br>is only 3.5 hours, but I think a new model battery with more cells in it<br>is coming out soon.<br><br>I snagged myself one of these just before Xmas and can highly recommend<br>it. It's going to come in very handy when I go back to being a student
<br>in a few weeks.<br><br>A community for this device has started up at <a href="http://www.eeeuser.com">www.eeeuser.com</a> , which is<br>packed with howtos and what not, including installing a custom eee PC<br>version of Xubuntu, among many other OSes, although the default Xandros
<br>is pretty good for what this thing is designed to be - an easy to use<br>and highly portable lightweight computing device.<br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-au mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a><br></blockquote></div><br>