PC World? Oh man, the last place I expected to have them. I'll have to check one out. How much was it?<br><br>Paul<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 28/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Forster</b> <
<a href="mailto:rick@forster.uklinux.net">rick@forster.uklinux.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yo<br>
<br>I had a chance to play with one of those teeny little Asus EEE PCs today<br>and I was jolly impressed. The custom Xandros distro is very similar to<br>the GUI on my old Zaurus PDA and fits the simple nature of the device
<br>quite well. That saying, I'd probably put a std distro on it if I could<br>be sure of getting all the hardware working.<br><br>The black borders on the side of the display where the speakers are do<br>not seem obtrusive and the screen is fine as it is. The rumoured 10"
<br>screen might be nice but isn't necessary (and it would use more power).<br><br>The keyboard is about as small as it can be and still be useful, those<br>with fatter fingers than me might not get on well with it.<br>
<br>I would have liked to have tested it for things like multimedia playback<br> as it ships with mplayer, but I couldn't find any movie files already<br>in the flash and didn't want to spend too long tapping away at a console.
<br><br>If it wasn't for that fact that PC World[1] only had the 2GB version in<br>stock I might well have bought one.<br><br>Rick<br><br>[1] I know. Sorry.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Malvern mailing list
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