On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 00:54, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Johnston <[email protected]> writes: > > Paul> Anyone out there have experience with the 8.9" Asus Eee PC with > Paul> the 12 GB SSD? > > Paul> How do you like it? I'm looking for a netbook to do strictly > Paul> word processing, email, and a little surfing. > > I don't have that one. I have an ASUS 1005PE, with a spinning disk > and an advertised 14-hour battery. I don't get 14 hours, mind you, > but I get enough (8-ish?) that I don't bother to carry the charger > with me anymore. I am quite happy with it.
i've had a similar experience with my asus 1005pr, which is a fairly similar beast to the one Russell is talking about. (the sea of model #s in the asus lineup is pretty ridiculous.) but both Russell's and my machine have 10" screens and decently sized keyboards. if you're ok with watching youtube in a tinier window than your already tiny screen (i'm not sure fullscreen (non-HD. HD will definitely not play smoothly fullscreen!) will work on the earlier eeepc's without being choppy?) and your fingers find the keyboard usable, you'll probably be ok. if i got one of those for free i'd take it and use it if i didn't already have a better netbook, i guess, but i wouldn't buy one unless it was like $50. the cost savings of a hundred or so bucks for a new machine whose overall size is no smaller than the ones with 10" screens, with a smaller battery and lesser keyboard does not seem worthwhile to me. (what bugged me about many netbooks was the placement of the right shift key and cursor keys. YMMV.) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
