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Recently the Acer C7 had to go back. They no longer make them so I had to request a refund. This perturbed me greatly as I loved the little book.
I had to look for a replacement, there are not many hard disk (the spinny kind) around that aren't desktop replacements, which isn't great when I want to use this for on-call work when out and about so that I'm not on house arrest. I quite like netbooks, this reminds me of them.
The Asus X200CA cost us ~£300, which when you think about it is ~£100 more expensive than the C7. You get roughly double the spec, with the advantage that the VT-X CPU extension hasn't been turned off in the BIOS.
The first thing I did with the host was to boot Ubuntu (after disabling secure boot) fill the NTFS partitions with zeros and install Ubuntu.
I'm not really fond of Ubuntu these days but the touch screen is automatically detected and functions, unlike in Debian.
Within minutes I had the laptop ready for on-call work, just like with the Acer C7 but with a working touchpad. Well it did kind of work, if you had it on mains, or if you were holding on to the VGA connector as it had a faulty earth rendering it very intermittent. Which is quite useless for drag-and-drop or block selections, viva le keyboard.
Here's the relevant bits of info from the host, well worth the money in my humble opinion. Unlike the photographs of this on the internet, it does have a GB keyboard.
/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1007U @ 1.50GHz stepping : 9 microcode : 0x17 cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 2993.49 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 58 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1007U @ 1.50GHz stepping : 9 microcode : 0x17 cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 2 initial apicid : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 2993.49 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:
