-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 02:44:00PM -0400, Rob wrote: > On Saturday 28 July 2007, <> wrote: > > the ASUS EEE is supposd to retail for 199 USD or so. there was a > > 200 euro laptop on slashdot the other day. so is the lowest DELL > > with a discount or two - theyre saying the OLPC will cost this much > > anyways - theres no way they can really beat quanta/compal/asus at > > their own game, price-wise.. although perhaps they have an edge in > > software innovation (the EEE runs a trimmed down Linux) > > Yeah, the OLPC currently costs $175 to make, whereas the Eee will > supposedly retail for $200. (Whenever the OLPC is available here, > they're saying it'll be sold at double its material cost, minimum.) > > I'm thinking of picking up an Eee for my mom for her birthday or xmas > (their old desktop machine is pretty much her husband's personal > Solitaire game), and if I do, you bet I'll be trying to get Jack > working on it. Don't know how successful I'll be since it tragically > runs Xandros which last I heard didn't ship a lot of audio stuff > standard (and the Eee will be stripped down further still, to fit on > its little flash drive.) > Nothing tragic about it. Wikipedia says it "optionally runs Ubuntu", so, I suppose it could run UbuntuStudio, or 64Studio, or Musix, or probably any other distro too. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGrUxSe8HF+6xeOIcRAi79AJ9NJtjfY1Ewu27X82yPU0HC41aCiQCffrHC kbYVbLrc05w4KGwrbN29Qkw= =zqvR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
