On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, greg wm wrote: > drat, power supply fan went, you know the bad smell, mobo didn't survive > either. bad luck. i need a box pronto, begged, borrowed, or bought > cheap, nothing special, as long as i can stack it with 768mb ram or > better. any offers? where does one go for used? i hate to patronize > walmart, but a $300 laptop sounds tempting. saw good remarks about asus > here a few weeks back. current suggestions? See info below that I sent to a friend. I like the Asus EeePC netbook quite a lot. It's running great. The one problem I had was with the power supply (see below), but this was resolved -- it sometimes has to be reset; just unplug it from the wall for a couple of minutes and then plug it back in. Mike Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:05:52 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Miller Subject: Asus EeePC In case you are interested, this is what I ordered from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-1005HA-PU1X-BU-10-1-Inch-Blue-Netbook/dp/tech-data/B002DYIXMS/ http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-CT25664AC667-200-Pin-SODIMM-Laptop/dp/B000F7QRTG With free S/H and the 2GB RAM it was slightly less than $400. I installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, 9.10, and I like it a lot so far. It is very easy to work with. It also is easy to install, but only after you know how. There is no CD or DVD drive on the netbook so you have to boot from a USB stick and you have to prepare the USB stick properly. There is nothing hard about doing it but it is hard to find out exactly what to do. Now that I know, if you get one of these and want Ubuntu on it, I could do it in less than 1 hour of my time. One problem with this machine: The AC adapter spontaneously stopped working. I then banged it on the table to bring it back to life and that worked. I see on the web that many people have had this problem with the adapter. I'm going to ask Amazon to send me another adapter. Mike