[Malvern] eee pc

[Geoff Bagley]

Just for curiosity,  what is the operating system ?

Geoff



Paul Potter wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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