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ARGH so here's what's up. I went to Best Buy and Target (and Circuit City and hhgregg) to hunt down all their eeepcs and ultraportables and to get the numbers on all of it, which, none of them had the 901 which is the model I wanted.
However they do have the next model up, which is the same basic hardwares but a larger screen plus a hard drive (whereas all the 9" models are just flash drives). Which I'm not sure if I'm happy about because while it's a MASSIVE memory increase I don't want to fuck up the hard drive moving it around, which is not something that happens with the flash memory.
Plus the 901s are so damn cute. But anyway, it's looking like I'm going to get the 10" because I can save $40 before shipping, and I'm getting a lot more memory and a not-so-cramped keyboard.
SOOOOO I drag dad back in there tonight (I went with mom and dad to see Pink Panther 2--very good and very cheesy, of course) and finally there is a guy who knows what the fuck is going on and is very helpful, especially when I realized they might not have the 1000 models with Linux (they didn't) so he says yeah it's easy to install ubuntu (or xubuntu or whatever) instead, and even with the XP license I'm STILL saving money by buying it in person (probably like a good $70 total), and then the guy goes to check the storeroom and THEY ARE OUT AND SO IS DAYTON AND THEY ARE NOT EXPECTING THE NEXT SHIPMENT UNTIL TUESDAY.
DAMN YOU UNIVERSE.
*sigh* Well, at least it gives me time to research the ubuntu installations and shit, and check on the 3-cell battery comment he made.
However they do have the next model up, which is the same basic hardwares but a larger screen plus a hard drive (whereas all the 9" models are just flash drives). Which I'm not sure if I'm happy about because while it's a MASSIVE memory increase I don't want to fuck up the hard drive moving it around, which is not something that happens with the flash memory.
Plus the 901s are so damn cute. But anyway, it's looking like I'm going to get the 10" because I can save $40 before shipping, and I'm getting a lot more memory and a not-so-cramped keyboard.
SOOOOO I drag dad back in there tonight (I went with mom and dad to see Pink Panther 2--very good and very cheesy, of course) and finally there is a guy who knows what the fuck is going on and is very helpful, especially when I realized they might not have the 1000 models with Linux (they didn't) so he says yeah it's easy to install ubuntu (or xubuntu or whatever) instead, and even with the XP license I'm STILL saving money by buying it in person (probably like a good $70 total), and then the guy goes to check the storeroom and THEY ARE OUT AND SO IS DAYTON AND THEY ARE NOT EXPECTING THE NEXT SHIPMENT UNTIL TUESDAY.
DAMN YOU UNIVERSE.
*sigh* Well, at least it gives me time to research the ubuntu installations and shit, and check on the 3-cell battery comment he made.