Richard, I have one! :D
Talking about the hardware first. Everything work as expected. The wifi and the camera are fine, the disk is fast and you can get used to the keyboard. Now the system. The EEE PC comes with a modified Xandros distribution which means it is a modified debian whose windows looks like Windows XP. The system comes in "basic mode", this mode makes the UI behave like a PDA. You have a backdrop with a tab panel with category labels such as "internet", "work", "play" and inside this panels you can access the applications for that category. Very easy to use. Applications usually opens full screen so it's very user friendly. You can set the Xandros to boot into "Advanced mode" which will give you a full KDE desktop. For those familiar with linux this will be a blessing since the basic mode is kinda hard to customize (there´s no built-in way to add apps to the panels). With the advanced mode, you have a small linux desktop and can do all linux can. Beware that Xandros is missing gcc & friends, so you must install it if you plan to add linux applications from source files. I´ve also installed Ubuntu in a SDHC card and tried it, it performed fine, I lost a SDHC during a hard reset with the card mounted, it broke the card beyond repair. :-/ Living in a Linux land means tweeking your system. We´re used to MacOS X working out of the box, with the EEE PC you can expect lots of work to customize things to your tastes. The resolution is too small, some applications will open bigger than the screen so you´ll need to ALT+Drag them so you can use the app. Revolution works fine but complains about the resolution, we need some 7'' plugins to make Rev UI more usable. So far I am very impressed with the machine, I am running Netbeans 6.1 with Java 1.6 SE with no problem (my university teaches java), it´s not even slow. the weight, form factor and cost makes this a wonderful machine. Best andre -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
