On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:52 +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Anyone had a play with the Asus micro laptop? > > Described here: http://tinyurl.com/ynnn9c > > It runs some form of Linux, has no HDD, just 4 GB of flash. > Sounds ideal for travel ... but perhaps the 7" screen is > a bit too small. > > Going for about $450 at JB Hifi and less on eBay.
I picked one up about a month ago, while they were still pretty much exclusive to Myer. The installed operating system is Xandros with icewm and a custom desktop interface. I can't comment on it too much because getting what I wanted out of it seemed too much effort so I installed xubuntu over the top of it in short order. But my one other (non-technical) friend who has one absolutely loves the OS. It's small and light and fairly awesome. The keyboard feels slightly cramped (the right shift key irritates me no end). The screen resolution is 1024x600. Again, a little getting used to (the wiki over at eeeuser.com has a lot of tips for small themes and trimming a lot of vertical space from firefox and the like), but I personally think it's pretty good for things like web browsing. For the price, I think it's a great machine. If anybody wants to have a poke at it, I'm planning on turning up at the next SLUG meeting. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
