ASUS Eee PC

[mbernardi]

I'd read about this in Linux Format magazine and thought cool but... Then at Eastercon a number of them were in use, and I managed to hold one and talk about using one. The Eee PC is a bit smaller than a hardback book and a tad heaver. It uses a customised Xandros Linux and includes WiFi and an SD Card slot. Other distributions can be used, but the default one seems to work fairly well.

When I got back I did some online searching and discovered that ebuyer was selling the Eee PC 2G Surf at only £220inc P&P. So I placed an order last Wednesday and I arrived earlier than expected, on Friday.

So over the weekend I been tying it out, (this post was written using it).
I'm very pleased with it so far, and the power supply morphs into a US plug so I'll be able to take it to Worldcon!

Now I have to see how I can install other software (LJ Client etc)

Comments

[timill]

I suspect you have a decimal point error in that price...

[mbernardi]

Um yes! now fixed

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I think you probably made the right choice in buying the current model now rather than waiting for the one with the bigger screen etc. next month (or the month after, as no one really expects there to be any for sale in April :-) )

It looks like a lovely portable machine for taking notes, surfing the web etc. It's not a games machine or a powerful MS-Office machine, but then it's not meant to be, it's at that triple point of price, portability and performance. You can pay more and get a more powerful machine, you can pay more and get a smaller machine, but it's got a good enough keyboard, a good enough screen and it's highly desireable, everything you could want in a geek device!

I don't have a need for such a thing at the moment (it would have been great in Japan last year though ...) and so I'm going to wait until next year and see what has come out by then :-)

[filkferengi]

Sounds fun!

How big is the hard drive? If you can download stuff, I can hook up with some cool music.

:)