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Dec. 15th, 2007 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sebastienneA man came into the library an hour or so ago with a shiny new ASUS Eeepc, bought in Toys R Us for £219.
I am still salivating now. It was so beautiful! Like I imagined my perfect piece of tech and it just popped into existence. Such a perfectly crafted OS with a 15-second boot time and swift-opening open-source programs. He has promised to report back how it fares with the internet, but I'm assuming well.
I am going to be purchasing one of these Very Soon Indeed unless someone can give me a good reason why I shouldn't.
So, yes, I'm working on a Saturday. With a case of friend-of-a-friend head lice that is nevertheless near enough that I'm going to be attacking my head with chemicals and boiling my lovely satin bedlinen, just in case. The combined power of British Gas, the landlady, and her workmen, are unable to fix our heating, and I woke up in a frigid room despite having had a costly electric heater on all night. But I'm still over the fscking moon! £219!
I am still salivating now. It was so beautiful! Like I imagined my perfect piece of tech and it just popped into existence. Such a perfectly crafted OS with a 15-second boot time and swift-opening open-source programs. He has promised to report back how it fares with the internet, but I'm assuming well.
I am going to be purchasing one of these Very Soon Indeed unless someone can give me a good reason why I shouldn't.
So, yes, I'm working on a Saturday. With a case of friend-of-a-friend head lice that is nevertheless near enough that I'm going to be attacking my head with chemicals and boiling my lovely satin bedlinen, just in case. The combined power of British Gas, the landlady, and her workmen, are unable to fix our heating, and I woke up in a frigid room despite having had a costly electric heater on all night. But I'm still over the fscking moon! £219!
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Date: 2007-12-15 03:28 pm (UTC)From what I can see, they don't come with any development or hacking tools, which would be a bit of a downer for me, so I'd probably install some flavour of Ubuntu over the top (shoulda gone for the OLPC buy-one-give-one while it was open, and damn the costs of shipping it from the US). But they look way shiny :-)