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Bryan Quigley: Did you know that the 20th most sold notebook on Amazon ships with Ubuntu?

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Priced at $230 which is back to netbook prices: ASUS 1015E-DS03 10.1-Inch Laptop ( Black ) [Link removed due to it no longer being sold by Amazon directly]

I reviewed the reviews for a friend, here is what I found:

It’s the cheapest (new) laptop you can buy (at the time it was actually $208)!   I’ve heard a lot of good reviews about the keyboard itself, that it’s more like a full-size keyboard than a netbook keyboard.  The trackpad apparently sucks.   The wireless chipset is Broadcom (bah humbug!),  which may have had some issues when it first came out.  They appear to have been resolved via some Ubuntu updates.  It does use an old low-end Intel chip that debuted in Q2 2011 [1].  It is 64 bit capable, and it appears to ship with 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04.  It is a dual-core chip.

There are some reports that the default partitioning scheme is wasteful.. Possibly a 100GB NTFS partition for no reason that I could find.

If you have bought one let me know in the comments how it’s working out for you!   And of course leave a review on Amazon as well.  There are 68 reviews there and counting..


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