On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I > installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen > is small, and the keyboard is small, but it is > also very light and quick to start/shut-down. It > certainly does the job we got it for. A larger > keyboard and screen would be nice, but at the > price it's hard to complain.
I also have a 701. My only criticism is the battery which is too small and discharges even when the machine is off. The latter problem cannot be fixed with different battery. Maybe I need to do some hardware hacking. I'm also going to put eeebuntu or possibly the eee fedora distro on it. (downloading eeebuntu 8.10 right now in fact) Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html