Just got my tiny £200 Asus eee PC laptop. Will write a proper review when I’ve played with it for a few days… initial response is very positive… few odd gripes:
Had to start broadcasting the SSID on my WiFi router to get it to connect – not sure if there’s a way round that.
It can’t do multiple logins with the default Xandros Linux… annoying but this might not be such a problem because…
This machine is MINE dammit. Not for the kids. No parental controls, so they’ll have to stick with MacOS X.
Skype works – just need some friends to call, ha!
Date & Time control panel is missing the NTP setting box that the help file says it has – very odd.
Plugged my Nikon D40 camera in, not hoping for much – oddly it mounted a drive called D40 but couldn’t see anything on it.
Happilly played a random selection of mp3s and a MOV and an AVI off my Kingston memory stick – sound quality pretty good on internal speakers, nice on headphones if a little quiet. Need to get some MMC SD cards…
You can get a terminal up easily in the file manager.
Found an FTP plugin for Firefox that should serve my FTP needs – text editor with FTP would be nice for quick fixes.
BETTER GO TO SLEEP NOW,,,