[Discuss] Asus eee

[Daniel M German]

Tesseract has one in a prominent place. Hard to miss.

I played with it for a little while. I think it looks like a great
little machine.  My only complain is that the touchpad button was very
stiff.

It is a very interesting competition to the Nokia 800 series. They are
very similar in specs, but huge difference in size, CPU power, and
keyboard.

I think it would be the perfect laptop for traveling (it uses solid
state memory). The fact that it runs open office 2.0 (which the N800
does not) is a big plus.

I think it will also be a perfect gift for a grandparent or a child
this Christmas.

Imagine (as a child) getting your first laptop, and one you can tinker
with. Priceless.

--dmg



 Lloyd> One of my boss's Toni picked up (he is in SF) and wrote about it at
 Lloyd> http://toni.schneidersf.com/2007/11/06/eeepc/

 Lloyd> It's a short post, but here are the most interesting parts for me:

 Lloyd> + It runs everything I need: Firefox, Open Office, Skype (all of it,
 Lloyd> plus a bunch more, pre-installed)

 Lloyd> - I was hoping for a longer battery life (seems like it gets about 3 hours)

 Lloyd> (I just got the basic battery. It's actually pretty sizable, so I'm
 Lloyd> surprised that it's relatively weak.)


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