$299 Dell Inspiron Mini laptop due out in August ...

[Freudian Frog]

Please, it's all about reaver/high templar drops.

[Grant Lamontagne]

If you are going to play 'Tossies, all you really need are Carriers, and maybe that doodad what done makes'em invisible... Corsair maybe?  Been a while, but now I have to dig it out and load it up again!

As for the Terrans, the "Terran Turtle" is an almost unbeatable defense- seige tanks, Goliaths and turrets full of Marines and Firebats will keep large amounts of Zerg from infesting your happy home.

Def

[Freudian Frog]

If you are going to play 'Tossies, all you really need are Carriers, and maybe that doodad what done makes'em invisible... Corsair maybe?  Been a while, but now I have to dig it out and load it up again!

As for the Terrans, the "Terran Turtle" is an almost unbeatable defense- seige tanks, Goliaths and turrets full of Marines and Firebats will keep large amounts of Zerg from infesting your happy home.

Def

Those would be Artibers, good sir. And Carriers are generally much too late game for me. It's all about psionic storms and scarabs, it is.

[NutSAK]

GEEK ALERT!!!   

 

[Grant Lamontagne]

Arbiter- you are absolutely right.  The Corsairs cast webs that render thingees useless.



Half a dozen invisible Carriers (or more!) is a good way to roll over any enemy base!

Def

[Whoey]

Getting Starcraft on your Aspire One will be fun, unless you happen to have an external USB CD/DVDrom? You could share the CDROM off your desktop over the network to install, then get the latest patches, as I think that removes the CD checks, and you won't need the CD after that... of course there's always www.gamecopyworld.com

I should try and setup under linux as I know it will run... I've got both starcraft and the broodwars expansion... haven't played in ages except on my old POS laptop (p2-233 with 256mb ram & win98)

[Grant Lamontagne]

I was looking at an external CD/DVD drive for the Aspire One, mostly for movies etc, but you are right, it would come in handy for a lot of things, like playing/installing games and other software.  Of course, I'm not a big fan of the $100+ price tag on some of them, but I have a $50 gift certificate to Staples, so I might use that to offset the cost of it.

I would also love to run Galactic Battlegrounds on it, but I doubt that a Microsoft game would run all that well on Linux!

Def

[Grant Lamontagne]

Well, it's here.  The good news is that when fully charged the battery will last around 8 hours.  The bad news is that it will take much longer than that for me to figure out wtf I'm doing with Linux!

So far I have a pretty long list of things I can't figure out, and a pretty short list of things I can. 

Things I can do:

Have a video chat in MSN Messenger (occasionally)
hit the < key instead of the shift button when trying to use punctuation or capitals
surf the web

Things I can't do:

Watch <videos
stop hitting the < key when I want to hit the shift key
sign into IM whenever I want
install my Bluetooth dongle
Stop hitting the touch pad when <i'm typing so the cursor goes all over the place
succeed at <tetris

I'm sure there's more I can't do, but I'm not smart enough to figure out what I don't know yet!

Def

[Whoey]

It always takes a while to get used to a new keyboard... I frequently hit the \ key which is above the enter key as on my old keyboard it was a reversed L -shaped key... it is a ultraportable, imagine how bad it would be on a 70x EEE PC...

As for getting things you want working, I'm sure reading the manuals, and searching for help online will help solve any issues... failing that, you can always throw a copy of XP on it...

What sort of videos are you having trouble with? are you referring to youtube (doesn't have flash installed?) or other video types...

[Grant Lamontagne]

Nope, just regular movie files.  I have a few movies on a flash drive left over from my last business trip that I thought I'd experiment with.  the sound is ok, but it says something about missing a video codec.  I am using MPlayer, which is the default player on it.

Def

[Whoey]

I also have mplayer, but normally use Totem Movie Player for most things... (it's my default player) haven't had to look for any codecs yet...

[Grant Lamontagne]

That's what I was told about MPlayer!

 

Def