On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > the eeePC has the big advantage over the other two in that you can buy > one through normal retail channels. I'd love to know what a member of > the target audience thought of them.
I was intrigued with them also, and went into dickies for a quick test. On that day, there were none in dickies - they had sold out. According to the sales guy, Dickies has sold a lot of them. They were hugely popular with techies as they were extremely portable and great for when the techy is on the road. One of the eee's would not take up a lot of space. Having space in your backpack would be good, so that when travelling through Heathrow you would have space for several sets of clothes (since you can expect your bag to get lost in the system) and it will be a while before you see your bags again. My personal view is that they are similar to the ZX81 of yesteryear. A very cheap way to get started on computers, and you end up learning quite a bit, and are then able to make a more informed choice as to the next computer to buy. Or for the hacker. Press the "start over" button and it reimages itself, and all the kernel mods etc disappear and you have a vanilla system. However, with just 4G of flash, and 2G already consumed with the OS, it is a bit light on space. Finally, they keyboard, mouse and disk space issues are not that important - it does have usb expansion capabilities. But when you tack on these extra things, the convenience & overall size is not as good. Derek. -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
