[Malvern] eee pc

[Paul Potter]

PC World? Oh man, the last place I expected to have them. I'll have to check
one out. How much was it?

Paul

On 28/12/2007, Richard Forster <rick at forster.uklinux.net> wrote:
>
> Yo
>
> I had a chance to play with one of those teeny little Asus EEE PCs today
> and I was jolly impressed. The custom Xandros distro is very similar to
> the GUI on my old Zaurus PDA and fits the simple nature of the device
> quite well. That saying, I'd probably put a std distro on it if I could
> be sure of getting all the hardware working.
>
> The black borders on the side of the display where the speakers are do
> not seem obtrusive and the screen is fine as it is. The rumoured 10"
> screen might be nice but isn't necessary (and it would use more power).
>
> The keyboard is about as small as it can be and still be useful, those
> with fatter fingers than me might not get on well with it.
>
> I would have liked to have tested it for things like multimedia playback
>   as it ships with mplayer, but I couldn't find any movie files already
> in the flash and didn't want to spend too long tapping away at a console.
>
> If it wasn't for that fact that PC World[1] only had the 2GB version in
> stock I might well have bought one.
>
> Rick
>
> [1] I know. Sorry.
>
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