[Nottingham] Re: ASUS eee PC

James Gibbon jg at jamesgibbon.com
Tue Jan 8 11:04:45 GMT 2008


On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:13:21 +0000
Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> In brevity:
> 
> It's the sort of size and capability that I've been looking for for some
> time. However, I ain't buying one! The keyboard and screen are too
> small... Yet I want something physically small... OK, so it's just too
> small!
> 
> Something that weight, slightly larger and capable of displaying 3/4 of
> a web page would be about right. Otherwise, why not just stick to your
> mobile phone cum web enabled PDA?
> 

Only played with one very briefly, but your comments support my
impression. It feels more like an oversized PDA than a small laptop.  I'd
probably like it a bit more with a different distro on it, though.

James



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