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Originally Posted by neutrino15
Hello,
As I was browsing around the internet, I found that there are ways to install other distros of Linux on to the Asus EEPc (and even the OLPC). While price is the main attraction of these machines, their tiny size is also a big bonus (especially when you have to lug them to various competitions and events). I was thinking of getting one for myself (or maybe even the team  ) but am being cautious.
Does anybody know how well the EEPc performs with an alternate distro of linux installed? Has anybody tried to use this machine with WINE and the c-18 compiler?
Further, has anyone put windows on it? (I couldn't find a conclusive answer online)..
The EEPc seems like such an attractive option to a robotics team. Its tiny, affordable, and well... Powerful for its size!
Thanks-
-Jordan |
The OLPC notebook computers are very low spec models. They only have a 433 Mhz processor with 256 Mb of RAM, they rely totally on 1 Gb of internal flash memory and a SD card slot to store everything; there are no hard drives or optical drives in them.
It would be highly unlikely that you'd be able to install anything newer than Windows 95 or 98SE on a laptop with those specs. You might be able to install a "thumb-drive" Linux distro, since that's basically the same specs that you have to work with.
Unfortunately compact laptops have never been cheap. The 13.1" Dell XPS mobile laptops and 13" Apple Macbooks both start at $1099 for about the same specs.
If your team is just looking for a decent laptop for programming at competitions, refurbished business laptops can be cheap and can work well for programming for several years. You might even get lucky and come across a compact Thinkpad or Dell Latitude on sale for less than $300 with decent specs.