Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Feb 2008 11:12 UTC
"The Asus Eee PC has been out for a few months now and while people are still buying them in droves, much of the luster has worn off of the device. During the first few weeks of ownership, it is hard for most people to get over how cheap and portable it is, but, as with anything else, you get used to it. After some time, once you see it as a tool and not an innovation, you can start to fine tune your opinion of the Eee PC and notice which parts of it really bother you and which you have learned to live with."
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Member since:2005-07-06
sometimes i wish that in this day and age people would learn to make pages that adapt gracefully to the size of the screen. hell, they even had a issue at times if you add a toolbar or two to the browser, resulting in some element or other at the bottom going out of view...
Member since:2005-07-06
On small resolution screens "fit to width" checkbox in Opera preferences (section dealing with look of webpages) works generally ok...besides I find Opera especially fitting on small ram/slow CPU machines...
@touchpad - I wish somebody (well...Lenovo?) would do Eee style machine without it, incorporating Trackpoint only.
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2005-10-01
The problem isn't so much the size of the screen but the resolution. Far too many websites are made for 1024x768 minimum so you end up doing a lot of scrolling and this is compounded by the poor quality touchpad*.
It isn't just websites that have problems with the screen. But many apps and games that would run just fine end up being unusable do to not being able to fit.
The use of a 720p type screen even at the same 7" would work so much better
*The touchpad is my second major gripe with my eee. It's horrible, it's very innaccurate, constantly hitting the scroll part when you don't want to, and when you do want to scroll the scroll part only end up working 1/2 the time. Then there is the buttons they require so much force to push down that I have to support the eee with my other had to prevent the unit from flipping over. This isn't so much of a problem with left clicking as double taping the pad to left click works ok, however right clicking sucks a lot.