I LOVE the form factor on this thing, really thin and light, great keyboard. For my browsing and writing, I could see myself ditching my EeePC for this.
I really want to see what everyone comes up with on the new Atoms, though: if someone can get pretty close to the thinness and weight, passive cooling, and still let me run Windows stuff (like my work VPN), it would be better. So far, though all the Pine Trail stuff looks to me like it's as big or bigger than the previous gen.
@VidRoth There's very few VPNs that don't run on Linux (even on ARM and MIPS too) so I'd be very surprised if you had something that realistically only ran in Windows. If you're using a Cisco VPN you can use vpnc (which is FOSS) to connect to your work VPN. If it is IPSec or PTPP those will work too.
I've got vpnc configure to connect to my work VPN right now and it works great (even better than Cisco's software since vpnc gives me more control over routing =).
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I LOVE the form factor on this thing, really thin and light, great keyboard. For my browsing and writing, I could see myself ditching my EeePC for this.
I really want to see what everyone comes up with on the new Atoms, though: if someone can get pretty close to the thinness and weight, passive cooling, and still let me run Windows stuff (like my work VPN), it would be better. So far, though all the Pine Trail stuff looks to me like it's as big or bigger than the previous gen.
@VidRoth There's very few VPNs that don't run on Linux (even on ARM and MIPS too) so I'd be very surprised if you had something that realistically only ran in Windows. If you're using a Cisco VPN you can use vpnc (which is FOSS) to connect to your work VPN. If it is IPSec or PTPP those will work too.
I've got vpnc configure to connect to my work VPN right now and it works great (even better than Cisco's software since vpnc gives me more control over routing =).
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