Just got hold of one, after waiting for about 2 weeks from PC world,
thought of sharing some experiences with you.
System config
ASUS eee PC 900
RAM 1GB
Disk 20 GB SSD
processor 800Mhz celeron
Xandros Linux
First some of good noticeable features
1. booting is very fast, by the time you plug the power, system is
up, absolutely no wait time or gazing at cryptic boot messages
2. IO is very fast; e,g copying from SD mem to disk or vice a versa
, just took out SD card from my digicam & inserted, it immediately
opened photo manager
3. hybernating works perfectly, just click & done, for waking upjust
press any key, instantly you would see OS ready
4. Skype with video works perfectly
5. Set of applications provided are mozilla firefox, mozilla
thunderbird email client, Open office 2.0, acrobat reader, pidgin
2.0, dictionary, printing system/drivers, voice command – well you
can call certain commands by voice e.g “computer movie” to play
built in movie player etc
6. Speaker, mike works good with reasonable pitch
7. Wirelss detects nearby clouds good but still need to test
8. less weight, very handy & somewhat attractive
Flip sides
1. keyboard size is very small, one would require practice but should
be manageable after some time
2. Its a good laptop on the move with any flavour of linux, so far
tried, Ubuntu though, but I think not suitable for serious office
work.
3. You would not find any command line terminal, no xterm
4. display max at 1024x600
5. Memory 1GB , SSD disk 20GB is OK, but some more justice should
have been done with processor which sometimes appear as busy
Finally i have decided to put Ubuntu as the main OS on it and will live
with it any way at home ;)
Regards
Yash
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