Asus Eee PCFiled Under: Technology
This week I purchased as Asus Eee PC as a laptop for me to take to the US and generally as a replacement for my IBM X21 with its broken screen and having had a few days of use, I’m really happy with it.
Sure, it’s tiny and doesn”t have much in the way of power (although at 900MHz/512MB of RAM it’s more powerful than my X21) but the keyboard is still more than big enough to allow me to touchtype on it with minimal mistakes and the screen is big enough for most uses. As noted in Skumby’s blog post on it it doesn’t really work too well with websites such as Google Maps.
By default the Eee comes with Xandros Linux installed, although the manual does have instructions on how to install Windows XP and which elements can be removed in order to make it fit on the 4GB drive, most of which is actually taken up by the restore image. For me this is fine, as it means I have access to the utilities that I’m used to on my other machines. At the moment there seems to be a limited number of additional packages available in the official repository, but from what I’ve read this is increasing.
All in all it’s a very nifty little device that will certainly do me fine for my portable computing requirements.
Tags: asus, eee, laptop, linux, xandros
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- Chris Hawley
- 3 Feb 2008 12:14 PM
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