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nahh whoever has it probably went strait to a pawn shop.....

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But on the way, they happened to take a look at the N800... then started browsing around... and that quickly, the addition was formed.

Whoever found it, if you are now reading this, for shame. :(

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Ok, time to resurrect my "lost" story, which still amazes me. I lived in Jersey City and commuted to Manhattan a few years ago. One day in Manhattan I was wearing a jacket with something wrong with the pocket, and while I was leaving the subway, someone chased me down. I had dropped a $5 bill! I thanked them very much and stupidly put the $5 back in the same pocket. That afternoon, someone shouted at me! You guessed it, the same $5 had fallen out of my pocket AGAIN as I left the turnstyle area and someone else ran after me and gave it to me.

So, the honest people are out there...

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Alas, still no news from our majestic Ottawa transit lost and found. That was a quick auction. "Look what we found?!?!", "Going once, going twice, Sold for a buck to Egbert, the trusted keeper of all things lost on a bus in Ottawa." Bloody swine. I'm still bitter three weeks later.

This occasion has given me leave to re-evaluate my needs versus my wants in terms of mobile computing. The Nokia Internet Tablet is a bloody brilliant technology that is maturing quite nicely but I went in a different direction for a replacement; a HP 2133 netbook. I blew off Vista and installed Ubuntu and away I go; what ***** at HP thought you could run Vista on a C7M platform - that's what I want to know. 50 seconds to boot Ubuntu and 3 minutes to boot Vista - OMG!!!.

Since I just recieved my replacement unit and it's the not really a competitor to the Internet Tablet genre nor is it another Internet Tablet so I'll bid you all adieu. Thanks for having me here, everyone has been very helpful and with that I close with "please watch where you put your tablets down".

Crouching Hamster
Ex-Tablet Owner
New Netbook Owner

Re: A Sad N800 "Bus" story.
 

I thought you were getting an Asus eee 900?!

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Well, you already got the mini-note, so this is too late to be useful; but I was seriously looking at a 2133 too (for about $750 from HP), and found an HP tx2110us at Staples (in-store; staples.com vs. in-store has little correlation) for $950, $900 after rebate. I just couldn't say no to that machine! (11" 1280x800, 2.1GHz Turion, conversion swivel-hinge, touchscreen and digitizer, this baby is gonna be sweet!)

OTOH, if I didn't have an N800 for the traveling-light end of things, switching up to a heavier (4.5 lb), more powerful machine might not have been so acceptable. I would not have bought a non-tablet this size, even at $750; I'd have taken the performance hit and gone with the mini-note, but having an N800 already, I couldn't say no.

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did the OP keep a note of his mac address so that he can report it lost/stolen on the relevant part of the forum, in case it turns up?

I have my name and telephone number labelled on my digital camera, palm and zaurus... need to get round to labelling my tablet.

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I was going to but the construction and design of the ASUS Eee PC 900 looks more like a toy then anything else. My brother-in-law brought over a HP 2133 Mini-Note and it's freaking awesome. He works for a VAR here in Ottawa so I bought my HP for cost. It's just all good. Aircraft grade aluminum shell, 120 gig HD with HP drive guard and 2 gigs of memory running full blown Ubuntu (Came with Vista if you can believe it; blew that off inside of 5 minutes of having the unit) and 1280x768 brilliant screen that has to be seen to be truly appreciated. $508.00 (Taxes in) Canadian. Hard to say no to that especially when the ASUS Eee PC 900 is retailing for 625 here in Canada and I don't want to even know what the 901 and 1000 editions are going to cost us frozen chosen here in Canada.

Crouching Hamster

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I have to admit, for the price, the HP Pavilion tx2110us is a brilliant machine and I saw someone at 2nd cup the other day with one. Very very nice looking unit however given that I paid 508 taxes in for my HP 2133 I would have a really hard time paying 400 more not including taxes for the uplift to the tx2110us. But I do have to say the the tx2110us is definitely a very very nice unit. I've had the HP2133 now for a week and I must say that it's been a real pleasure to use. The keyboard is just bloody amazing and easy to use, particularly in light of how unusable the keyboard is on the ASUS Eee PC units and the HP2133 is just slightly larger then the ASUS Eee PC 900/901; the difference is barely perceptible. With the attention to detail that HP reaped on the HP2133 in terms of construction and functionality I've absolutely no complaints so far. Time will tell.

When the Nokia N900 comes out, sign me up.

Crouching Hamster

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Hm. How does it do running Ubuntu (support for the touch screen, all of its other hardware, etc.)?