got an Eee pc from best buy

[morphodone]

$279
Intel atom
1GB ram
4GB ssd
Pearl white



My wife wanted it more than I did. That's the good thing about listening to the tech show in front of the wife. She gets to here all they guys talk about how great netbooks are!

[dann]

Sweetness, that came with Xandros right?

[morphodone]

yeah Xandros, although I am thinking of putting some form of ubuntu on their

from listening to the show you had good luck with that. did you install ubuntu to an SD card?

[dann]

I pulled down the eeebuntu netbook release and used the isotostick.sh script to copy the iso over to a flash card. I then booted from the flash card and installed ubuntu onto the internal flash on the eeePC.