Re: gEDA-user: OT: Recommendations for laptop?

[Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1@xxxxxxx>]

Larry Doolittle wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:40:08PM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
>> I've been glancing over some of the inexpensive Linux-based  
>> netbooks lately - a tad underpowered, but potentially useful and cheap  
>> enough to take a flyer on. I'm curious how useful a 1024x800 screen  
>> would be for gEDA/PCB.
> 
> 1024x800?  Where?  They're all widescreen now.  The lightweight,
> inexpensive ones are 1024*600 or so.  The larger, heavier, cheap and
> modern notebooks get up all the way to 1280x800.
> 
> The lack of height would hurt me, at least.  I now use a 1024x768
> Thinkpad X40 (which I have promoted here before: US$400 on eBay).
> I couldn't stand going any smaller in screen size.

Dredging up this old thread again...

I found an ASUS EEE PC 900A at a local big-box last week for $200. After 
a few false starts with the pre-installed Xandros distro, I loaded up 
Ubuntu eee which seems to be working well. gEDA/PCB were easily added 
with apt-get (although the Ubuntu repositories are still on 20080202 
unfortunately) and gschem + PCB work fine. Surprisingly usable, even on 
the small screen.

I do wonder if there is any way to get a newer package though. Fedora 
9's yum repository is pretty much up-to-date. I guess compiling from 
source is the only way for now.

Overall not bad though. It would work in a pinch.

Eric


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