Last night my laptop died, after at least a couple of years of devoted service. I didn’t lose anything (paranoid backup strategy) except a few photos from our trip around Greece. (Even most of these will have survived on Olga’s laptop, but I think there were a few only I had.) In other words, not nearly the disaster it could have been. (The photos and writeup of the trip will be a bit more delayed though.)
But this weekend I’m off to Berlin for a week, where I will give three talks (two of them more working-session-ish, but still a pretty serious workload). Two of the three aren’t really written yet: I planned to do some work on the train and some work there. So I needed a machine, and fast.
Which is by way of semi-justification of the fact that this post is written on my brand new eee pc. It’s a teeny-tiny laptop and so far I’m very happy.1 I’ve got it running an eee-friendly ubuntu flavour (easy peasy), and while I write this post Amarok is playing my music for me. Most importantly, I’ve installed latex and emacs and all the bits and pieces I need to work on my talks for next week. Success!
So: the laptop is dead, long live the laptop.
Notes:
- The only major snag I’ve run into is the half-size right shift key, which means I keep hitting ‘up’ or ‘enter’ when I want uppercase. But I’ll get used to that, I’m sure. [↪]
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I love the 901 I bought not long before Christmas. It’s funny, I used it for a week while in NL and got so used to it that my MacBook Pro’s keyboard seemed gigantic in comparison.
Mine’s still running Xandros but I’ll be installing easypeasy soon.
That’s the model I got too — would have liked the 1000h with a faster processor, but nobody had them in stock and I needed it /fast/. And, 100 euro savings, who’s complaining?
If you’re already linuxy then easypeasy might be frustrating: the interface is dumbed /right/ down. I have to admit I’m kinda enjoying it, but it’s a guilty pleasure…