I spent an hour on webcam/online chat with my wife while she tinkers with the ASUS eee PC 900. The setup was I'm on my Windows Vista Starter Edition (I've upgraded it to 2GB memory so it doesn't suck as much) and my wife was on an IBM T41 and with her webcam pointed at the eee PC. I was just basically politely telling her what to do. Emphasis on politely ... ;)
Coming from Ubuntu and Windows, we were both amazed on how fast it boots and shutdown. We tried to explore the installed softwares and installable ones and concluded that it is a really good PC for our parents. It got all that a normal person would need to work with a computer (email, internet, documents and web video chat). The weird thing is that the Linux system was partitioned weirdly. The whole unit was supposed to be 20GB but it partition the system this way / - 2.7GB /swap - 1GB /home - 16GB The root and the swap was on /dev/sda that is a 4GB disk. It seems that the 16GB is on another disk device so installing Windows on it will take some forethought. Poking around it, my gut reaction was to install Ubuntu or Xubuntu on it. I believe that the screen is wide enough for work and my wife says that its soo kawaii ... but feels that the keyboard is so small even with her slim fingers. Out of the box, it worked with youtube and our favorite video streaming site http://www.watch-movies.net One final thing that made me happy was that it comes with a WindowsXP driver cd and a Linux System Recovery DVD disk. Meaning I can restore the OS if I muck it up. The only problem now is how to trick my wife into buying one. ;) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Rufon Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:10 PM To: Chat forum Subject: ASUS eee PC (WAS: [Jchat] Obit) Hehehe. Yep. eeePC is sooo cute (had to translate kawaii ... for people who don't watch naruto/or any Japanese anime ... teeeheee). I just gave my wife a call and she tells me that she's sitting on one since one of the managers in the factory bought the 20GB eee PC 900 series without realizing that its Linux. The guy wants the IT department to install WindowsXP and a lot of stuff on it. The problem is that their only external CD/DVD drive is currently broken since somebody did a 20 in 1 DVD Korean movie marathon. Not to mention the drivers hunt for windows. Hey! Does anybody have experience using the ASUS eeePC ... windows or linux version? I am actually wondering if a terminal can be opened in the linux version to run ./jwd Hmmmm. I guess it would take some convincing for my wife to get me one since she still haven't bought me a new bike (Yamaha XJR 400cc) and currently letting me suffer on my daily 75KM commute with a 150cc scooter <http://www.motorstar.com.ph/modeldetail.asp?ModelID=39&CategoryID=2>. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bill lam Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jchat] Obit > I few years back ... I was using an O2 XDA II Pocket PC phone for the J > for Pocket PC. Then Chris told me that he got a 640x480 resolution > pocket pc. So driven by envy (heheheh), I bought a Dell Axim x50v using > Windows Mobile 2003 SE around two years ago after I cracked the LCD of > my XDA II (NEVER crash your motorcycle with your PDA in your pocket). > > > > Last week, my Dell Axim died a Memory Failure death and will be sorely > missed. No more J for the Pocket PC and eBook's will now be read in the > really tiny screen of my N95. Consider asus eee pc? I've seen one. it is kawaii. regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
