Another Happy Eee User
Since a few days I'm happy owner of an Asus Eee PC 4G. In case you've been living under a rock for the last few months: The Eee PC is a low cost ultra portable laptop computer. It weighs just a bit over 900g, has a 4GB flash disk instead of a hard disk and a 7” display.
By default the Eee comes with a customized Xandros Linux distribution and a few preinstalled applications. Asus did a really good job in creating a useful GUI for beginners. This is one of the success factors of EeePC in my opinion.
Of course I'm no beginner and wanted something tweaked to the bit to my own likings. I'm now running Arch Linux on the Eee and am very happy with it so far.
Some things are worth mentioning about the hardware, though:
- The EeePC gets quite warm – not too hot, but considerable warm
- The keyboard is nice but has some things you need to get used too:
- The right shift key is oddly positioned and you will miss it a lot in the beginning
- You need to press the keys all the way down to register
- Sometimes dialog windows will be bigger than the 800×480 screen resolution1)
The EeePC is the perfect travel machine and for just 300 EUR you can't go wrong.
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ALT, then move the window by clicking anywhere inside the window to move it beyond the screen bordersPosted on Wednesday March the 26th, 2008 (7 weeks ago).
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3Aaron, to be honest, I chose Arch out of curiosity. The EeePC was just accidentally the next desktop to setup ;-). But Arch with it very current packages seems to be a good choice for very new hardware nonetheless.
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6I mostly need a laptop for conferences or for longer trips from home. I usually don't do much "real" work on these trips. Checking mails, surfing the web and having a look at my digital photos are the most common tasks. All these tasks can be handled by the Eee for a fraction of the price of a Sony TZ for example.
But a powerful ultra portable is still very tempting. It just got much harder for me justify its price.
7I've been looking for a decent mobile device for net access for ages. Laptops are just too big for me, and mobile phones just don't have the interface I need.
Right now it's between these Asus EEE PCs and the Nokia PDA's... I bought a Nolia 770 a little while back which runs Debian (sort of) and it's pretty good, and very reasonably priced.
8Are you using swap or not? There are different opinions about swapping on flash drives.
9I hope my Eee will come tomorrow or on Friday, and hell will freeze over before i'll ever even think about putting windows on it...
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