-- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bruce [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca; (613) 745-1151 Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. - Hobbes the tiger ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Bruce Miller <subscribe [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca> To: James <bjlockie [ at ] lockie [ dot ] ca> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:44:07 AM Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] netbook I am not keen on Acer as a brand. My experience has been that their laptops are cheap --- in all senses of the word. For comments on SSD drives, you could do worse than to start from Linus Torvalds' brand-new blog: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bruce [ at ] brmiller [ dot ] ca; (613) 745-1151 Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. - Hobbes the tiger ----- Original Message ---- From: James <bjlockie [ at ] lockie [ dot ] ca> To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:20:21 AM Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] netbook I'm considering something like this: http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=019819&cid=896.862 There is a model with a hard drive too. Are there any other distributions that are good for SSD? Is it a bad idea to buy SSDs drives? I have an external USB drive so I'm not concerned about storage space on the machine. I just need something cheap and portable for web browsing and email. _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux