[CoLoCo] Comm Test

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:21 AM, siblog <tehsiblog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting, now that I have read a little bit more about the Cloudbook
> and the Rocket release of the gOS it appears that it this specific release
> is based on the GNOME desktop environment.
>
> I want to pick up either the Asus Eee PC or the Cloudbook and can't seem
> to decide if I want speed or storage. The Eee PC seems to be working
> flawlessly and has a solid state drive, but the storage is minimal and I
> don't like the sounds of the Xandros OS from what I have been reading. The
> Cloudbook on the other hand seems to be slow and is a little rough around
> the edges with some wireless and other OS issues. The upside is that the OS
> is Ubuntu based and the storage is twice the size. I can't decide at this
> point
>

Based on my limited knowledge, I think the eee is the better choice at the
moment. If I had 4 bills I'd buy one today (although I'd really like to see
a bit larger screen). It seems more polished and you can install ubuntu (or
xubuntu) on it. There are tutorials on the web. You can also increase the
storage with an additional sd card. Still, it's not much but if you want to
store a ton of stuff you can add a portable hard drive. I think the cool
thing about these though is lightweight web access. With stuff like google
docs, how much do you really need to store?

-jim

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