Hello Andrei,
Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Got to say, Linux's #1 drawback is lack of solid wireless support.
It can get very, very unnerving. Particularly because of the
chicken-and-egg thing: you install Linux and you want to get the
wifi working, but you can't download the appropriate driver because
you can't connect. Then the default network-manager is really
crappy. My Linux experience improved considerably when I found a
drop-in replacement called wicd (http://wicd.sf.net).
My router burned out this morning (nice smell of ozone), and when I
went to the nerd store to get another, my eee pc was there on sale
for $249, $100 less than I paid for it. The sign on it says "last
one".
IMHO people noticed 10'' is the perfect keyboard access/portability
combination, so 9'' fell sharply out of favor.
Andrei
I'd say it was the small screen more than the keyboard (which they made larger
in the next asus eee release). But, I think the reason really is that ASUS
lost out to all the other better options that flooded the market after their
initial release. It's true that most of these probably had a larger keyboard
as well, though. But they also had a larger screen, more memory, and much
more hard drive space. :)
-JJR
