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635392 2008-01-30 06:13:00 I've just bought one:eek:
I've had a whole heap of DSE vouchers, which I got for Christmas, burning a hole in my pocket; then I read in my latest PCW a review on these machines, and thought "I should look at that. It'll fit in our camera bag. Ideal when we travel".

Anyway, so far I quite like what I see. It found my wireless network without a glitch:thumbs:
jcr1 (893)
635393 2008-01-30 09:45:00 Yay? They are pretty hassle free. So that makes you, Chilling Silence and Jan and someone else owners of a EEE now. beeswax34 (63)
635394 2008-01-30 18:08:00 Great to hear jcr1.

They really are great aren't they!
somebody (208)
635395 2008-01-30 19:47:00 Great to hear jcr1 .

They really are great aren't they!

Yes they are .
When I went to collect the mail this morning, about 70 odd metres from the house, I took it with me and it picked up my network, no problem .
I must get a really compact headset for it and a large capacity pen drive for extra storage (that would be my main criticism-but not an insurmountable problem) .
jcr1 (893)
635396 2008-01-30 19:56:00 Now I'm even more tempted to buy one... LiquidSolidity (1589)
635397 2008-01-30 21:02:00 What i found best.
Was a laptop Harddrive (2.5) in an external drive, i had a 20gb HDD connected to my Eee PC with WIndows XP on it.
cl_metal_snake (10242)
635398 2008-01-30 21:07:00 Thinking of getting one myself. Thought of getting a big capacity SD drive, and wondered if it's possible to format it so that it acts as a drive. A few concerns though. No CD drive right? How do you install word etc? I know it comes with open office, but I've always found it useless for most of my purposes. Also, can you buy them online? I noticed that Asus aren't online retailers :(. I'm wondering if I should hold out a little until they bring newer models out in NZ. an 8gig SSD would help ease the pain a tad. How annoying is the tiny screen? Thebananamonkey (7741)
635399 2008-01-30 21:18:00 How annoying is the tiny screen?

It is for some web pages, where you have to scroll in both directions. But some web pages fit in fine.
jcr1 (893)
635400 2008-01-30 23:07:00 I condsidered getting one, But decided against it based on the fact that for $250 extra I could get a laptop loaded with all the bells and whistles, and simply install linux..... Metla (12)
635401 2008-01-30 23:17:00 Yeah... wondering about that. It is nice and small though. How robust are they? Should I just wait until they've 'matured' a bit, and I can get one that I can type on AND read the screen? Also, maybe I'll wait till SSD's come down in price, and I can get more than my flash drive worth.
Looks good. But I think I got hooked on a gimmick. It's small, it's cool. But it's probably slow as hell, and I can't be bothered making a million compromises just to have the latest tech.
Thebananamonkey (7741)
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