Entries tagged “netbook”

Friday, October 23, 2009

Netbook theme for Ubuntu

Upgraded to Karmic last night. The refresh of the Human theme is quite nice, but the bright orange icons no longer work, so I made a quick remix. Download:

Both versions are designed for 1024×600 netbook screens. For best results, you should also install maximus and window-picker-applet, and setup a single panel at top containing the applet.

Installation

Go to System → Preferences → Appearance and install from there, or better, extract the tarball to /usr/share/themes as root. The latter will get it to work for system applications too.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

What a little competition can do to prices

Eee PC 1000H price drop

Within the space of just a week, no doubt owing to the Acer Aspire One and MSI Wind becoming available. But for its weight, the Eee PC 1000H is a very compelling selection, with a comfortably sized screen, large keyboard, excellent trackpad and high quality speakers. Staples is selling with the full capacity 6-cell 6600 mAh battery. Earlier Eee PCs including my 701 were sold with a lower spec battery than elsewhere in the world.

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