I've got several hundred photos offline that I've been meaning to upload, just never got around to it.
DOA Mini-Note And Poor Customer Service
I've been going back and forth between HP's Mini-Note and Asus's Eee but decided to get the Mini-Note because it had a higher resolution screen. Now, I wish I waited to get the Eee.
I got the Mini-Note last night and it wouldn't boot. The error I got from grub was "Error 17", so it looks like the harddrive is having issues, possibly damaged or corrupt. I've been on hold for 20 minutes already and haven't been able to get through to a customer service rep. If it weren't for the fact that I'd pay a 15% restocking fee, I'd return it.
HP's Mini-Note 2133 or Asus' Eee 900?
Asus has an Eee with a 9" screen running at 1024x600, which was the only thing stopping me from getting one and running either Ubuntu and xfce or maybe even OS x.
But as it turns out, even though some are being unboxed now, the Eee launches on May 12 and the Atom version is rumored to launch in June. I'm too damn impatient.
But there's been another competitor, HP's Mini-Note 2133, and reviews love it. Did I mention is has a 1280x768 screen? And is only slightly larger?
How slightly? I made papercraft versions of each machine given their dimensions so I could look at them next to each other and found the small difference in volume to not matter. Little did I know, someone already took pictures of the Eee and Mini-note side by side.
Unboxings of the Mini-note are popping up, the only other information I've seen on this now-shipping machine is one very unhappy user.
Given the Mini-note's larger resolution display and the fact that it is available now, I'm probably going to snatch that up. Why Asus would go with a lower resolution screen is beyond me.
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