Hey Jesse, I think it's gonna come down to what you want to use it for. I bought one - gave it to my wife. She wants something for light duty use that can do everything her desktop can: Web Browsing, play music, play videos, send/recv email. This has that covered. I already have 2 PDAs & 2 laptops. I wanted something I ultra-portable that didn't need a backpack. This thing is small, light and comes on very quickly - perfect for immediate access. Better screen, software & connectivity that my PDA while being smaller & lighter than my laptops. Being able to install additional software and having a shell available seals the deal for me. If you need to get access to other files it can NFS/CIFS connect natively. This is the kind of thing that we can take sans power adapter when we go away for a weekend. Still be able to pickup email or remote connect if my work blows up.
That said... I would NOT buy this as my only laptop - I would tire of the keyboard/display quickly, but for light duty use it's perfect. On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:24 -0600, Jesse Kline wrote: > To the people that have already purchased one of these, > > Do you think that the Eee PC offers good value for money? If so, why? I > must admit that they look attractive and if the price point was around > $250, I probably wouldn't think twice about buying one. The $400 price > seems reasonable, but I was looking at laptops awhile back and for $400 > you can buy a decent used laptop with much more horsepower, more RAM, a > way bigger hard drive, and a removable media (CD/DVD) drive. If you're > looking for something small, you can probably get a pretty nice PDA for > the same price. So, I'm trying to figure out if these things are > actually worth buying. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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