I am sold on my EEE701, bought off Trademe for about $300 too long ago
to find exact amount without really looking. It had a 8 gig photo card
in it and indigenous Linux.
I do my email, trademe sales. Open Office stuff, play and store heaps of
music, can plug into the TV and watch videos off the USB ext hard drives
the boys fill up for me.
It is QUIET !!!! tho the barely audible fan will kick in if it is
sitting on bedding.
It has fallen off the seat of my truck onto the footpath and still no
problems, I take it everywhere and just plug it into mouse, big monitor,
keyboard,printer, headphones or stereo, etc etc , at the office or away,
12v car power adapter or tiny inverter fills it back up with electrons.
It can take photo card from nearly every camera we own.
No body had to buy MSWindblows.
Wireless or wired network stuff works.
All my floor top machines have had a great rest.
I would get one for my wife - but she is too locked into "Only runs on
Windblows" stuff - and I would have to set it up and what with windows
networks and windows driving printers, and windows within windows etc
etc and so I keep very very quiet about how good this one really is ....
chris wrote:
I have been thinking of getting the Asus eeepc for my wife, who's only
use for a computer is email from her large number of siblings, and the
very occasional photo of assorted siblings offspring.
As I am not a geek but an end user the Asus makes sense.
Strong simple, they make good motherboards and laptops, reliable, and
comes with Linux
Cheap.
My reasons
Cheers Chris Thomas
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 22:22 +1300, Aidan Gauland wrote:
First: thanks for the quick responses.
I'm begining to think that a netbook would be better than a full blown
laptop (intended usage == intended usage of netbook). I've been reading the
threads on this list about netbooks; I'm uncertain as to whether it really
matters which one, when it's for someone who just wants to use it for very
basic tasks (E-mail, web browsing, word processing, etc.). Can anyone help me
there, or are the only CLUG people who've bought one the ones who know too
much? ;)
Being a hard-core computer geek becomes a problem when you need to think
like a typical end-user. :)
-Aidan
[email protected] wrote:
Could anyone here recommend a place in (or around) Christchurch that sells
laptops WITHOUT Windows (it doesn't matter if it comes with Linux or not).
I'm asking on behalf of someone who doesn't know what to look for when
shopping for a computer (I'm helping with that), and doesn't want to pay
for software that will never be used (i.e. Windows).
