EEEPC - overall thoughts

Overall - I’m really impressed.

Pros

  1. It’s tiny - meaning very portable
  2. It’s light - under one kilo
  3. It’s fast - Celeron 900MHz with 512MB Ram
  4. It runs Linux - Xandros with a very fast window manager by default
  5. Battery life is good considering the size (3-4 hours)
  6. It’s cheap as hell - I paid about 300Euro
  7. It’s got Wifi and webcam - Skype Video on the go
  8. Hibernate works brilliantly with very fast boot times too

Cons

  1. Keyboard is a little small
  2. It’s doesn’t reconnect to wifi when it comes out of hibernate
  3. The WEP WPA software has bugs - you can’t connect to a network with a key that has numbers or spaces in it
  4. The screen is a little too small for constant use - I reckon the planned 10″ models will be alot better

EEEPC in black

Overall I love and I wouln’t hesitate to recommend it considering the price.

This entry was written by philroche and posted on January 24, 2008 at 11:29 am and filed under General, Linux, open source, eeepc. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. Dmitriy Kropivnitski
    Posted May 8, 2008 at 5:43 pm | Permalink

    How the hell did you manage to get hibernation to work?

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