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I went to have a play on one this morning, at Novatech's Portishead branch. The hardware looks nice, but the keys are about 10% too small for even my girly digits. The touch pad wasn't great either, awkward placing of the buttons and no tapping. Mind you I never could handle a touch pad. The sales guys knew nothing about the product including a) what flavour of linux or b) how the software can be updated or extra apps added. There is a gui package management system installed but no clue as to what it was running in the background. I wanted to see if it would be possible to open a terminal and do things like ssh, but it appears not. I was tempted to buy one and try an install a proper version of linux on it - but not enough. Oddly, the price was cheaper at £165. As a side note the sales guy really didn't want to sell it to me, his opening gambit was along the lines of "It is not like a proper laptop, you can't really do anything with it". After 10mins I agreed W Rob Beard wrote: > kevin wrote: >> from novotech >> http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/e-weekly.html >> >> Looks like a reasonable offer ( I Like the Highly secure bit!) >> > > Maplin and Scan are selling them too... > > http://www.cnmlifestyle.com/ > > They're ARM based systems. Someone on the Ubuntu list was saying that > he'd prefer an EeePC, but how I see it, the more of these type of > devices that get released, the cheaper they'll get. > > Before long I bet they'll be under £100. > > I also wonder if RiscOS from the Archimedes could be hacked to run on > this ;-) > > Rob > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html