Kirk Jackson's Page of Words - Eee PC touchy feely

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Adam from Xero and I went to look at the Eee PC at Dick Smith's today. Quite a cute little PC that has no spinning hard drive, no fans and only weighs 900 grams.

Looks like a nice little email / web PC, but the screen is a little tiny for my liking. The install of Linux is quite smooth, and Firefox is integrated nicely onto the desktop.

Quite good for $600NZ though!

Kirk

posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:13:35 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Comments [4]

Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:46:12 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Here's a guide for fiddling your bits: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/06/eee-pc-tips-a-crash-course-in-linux/

Adam

Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:47:16 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

I have one of those! I got mine today (finally) via inconveniently slow UPS Ground (I'm in the US).

Very shiny. Keyboard is a bit small but more typable on than the OLPC.

And it really is TINY.

Yeah, it could have a bigger screen / more memory / ponies. But it's cheap enough that you can get one anyway and if it dies it's not quite as bad as a $4000 subnotebook giving up the ghost.

Donald Gordon | donAT NOSPAMdis dot org dot nz

Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:26:53 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Cool - let us know what you think after a few days :)

Kirk Jackson | kirkjAT NOSPAMparadise dot net dot nz

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:04:16 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Hehe, yep, I've got one too. They are lovely little things. I'm yet to put Ubuntu or Debian on there since the Xandros based OS is actually okay. I'm sure it'll feel limiting at some stage in the future though, once I seriously start playing around with it.

Andy Chilton | andychiltonAT NOSPAMgmail dot com

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