Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Dec 2007 17:46 UTC, submitted by Steve Emms
A review of the Asus EeePC. It concludes: "The Eee PC may be targeted at children and students, but it should also entice anyone needing a compact, low cost, yet fully functional PC. It is featherweight, far easier to use than a Windows machine, starts up three times faster, and costs about a quarter of anything in its weight class."
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err, may i ask what your going to use it for that needs that amount of storage? unless we are talking audiovisual media i dont see how one gig to or from will be a issue...
There's a big difference between 2 gigs free and 1 gig free. Also the more apps you add or update on the stock EeePC, the less space you have for data. That 1.4 gbs would fill up pretty damn quick.
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And why wouldn't we be talking audiovisual media? A few films for those flights or train rides seems to be a very common use of laptops. Other uses would include additional software. If I had one of these I'd love to get mathematica and matlab if I could onto it. They're pretty big programs. Other people in other fields probably have their own software they'd like to add.
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If you dont fit the target user profile obviously you're going to have to expand it or otherwise fiddle with it in some way.
That's what I said. By installing a more standard version of Linux, the EeePC becomes immediate far more useful. And it's not that hard to get it all working.
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Happy that I had to buy more storage just to make full use of the device? That doesn't sound very fun. By reformatting the built in storage to one big partition, I get an extra gig of space and way more flexibility without buying anything.