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Customer Reviews
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Not Great
This computer would not connect to the internet for very long. It also arrived with some of the keys popped up and we were told we had to contact the company to fix this. It made it look very cheap. This item was returned.
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Nice Little Machine
This is a very nice little machine. It comes with Linux, so keep that in mind if you're super dependent on Windows or Mac. It runs quick and is excellent if you're just looking to do some word processing, a little web surfing, listening to tunes, you know, any low-impact computing activities.
The only gripes are the keyboard and the battery life.
First the keyboard definitely is small, and you will probably have difficulty typing if you have large hands. Also, the keyboard is somewhat unresponsive sometimes, especially the spacebar. Deliberate keystrokes are necessary to ensure that all characters and spaces are actually put onto the screen. Also, take a look at a picture of the keyboard to see if the tiny right shift key will bother you, especially with its proximity to the "up" arrow.
The battery life is pretty low. If you plan to take the leash off this thing and go tooling around on the internet wirelessly, you'll probably only get about 90 minutes off the battery. But you can greatly increase the battery life by turning off the wireless and dimming the screen a little bit to get a couple hours out of it.
It's a few hundred bucks for a fully functional little comp that can take care of what most of us use computers for: diddling around.
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Perfection
This is the computer I've been looking for. Small, light, cool, SSD storage, and the price is right. I'll never go back to a large laptop or to Windows. Linux is my OS of choice, and the Eee is perfect for it.
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Just an fyi on Xubuntu 8.10 and this netbook...
This is not a full review, just a informational post on Xubuntu 8.10 and this netbook.
I switched from the Xandros linux that the eee pc 900 came shipped with to Xubuntu 8.10 to run a USB727 modem through Verizon. It works great but I had to add another script to get wifi working on Xubuntu, as the original distribution would not recognize this computer's wifi.
I previously installed Windows XP and it was so much slower than Xandros or Xubuntu, so I reinstalled a linux platform (Xubuntu) and it works great. Even the internet and browsers work faster. What a difference! I do prefer Xubuntu/Ubuntu over Xandros.
This netbook does exactly what it's meant to do. Light, portable, nice GUI. Three USB slots which is a huge plus. And lots of free and very useful applications because of linux. The 1.3mp camera is a great addition and Skype comes in a linux version as well. You can install other platforms through the usb drive if you don't have an optical drive to plug into the usb port. Try Fedora's Live USB Creator, available for free.
I agree with other reviewers that the battery life could be longer. From what I read recently, Asus will be phasing this screen size out next year and concentrating on the 10" displays.
Long live Linux!
Oh, and don't get suckered into buying the $299 version from Target. It is NOT the same netbook - there is no camera built-in and it only comes with 512 Ram, ick!
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So far I am pleased
I have two good laptops already, and usually take one or both on our many vacations. The older is a 15" windows from hp, and it works just fine, and has slots for our camera flash memory. Since we are mac people, we also bought a newer macbook, which is really a delight. Now we leave soon on a trip by sea land and train and we want to travel light, which is why I bought the ASUS notebook. I chose this model because it is the cheapest. After reading reviews, I was glad to note that my unit came with the 5400 MAH battery and the 1,3 Mpix camera. I rather favor Linux over windows because it is UNIX-like and I have a lot of professional experience with UNIX. However, the guts are well hidden by the ASUS GUI which makes the usual tasks easy. It accommodated my mouse, printer, SD flash, USB hard and flash drives without intervention. The only peripheral it would not work with was a Bluetooth dongle. My tests on the battery indicates loss of capacity if left in, but no loss if taken out. I was disappointed that gcc was absent as i wanted to add a GPS interface. A procedure from a eee-pc forum did not work. I may have more to write after I have used it on the ship, car , bus, and train.
Virgin America formally launches: Last week, Virgin America offered free Wi-Fi on its single Internet-equipped aircraft, My Other Ride's a Spaceship. Today, the service goes commercial ($10 for flights 3 hours or shorter; $13 for longer flights), and the rollout to other planes begins. Virgin has a special URL--http://wifitracker.virginamerica.com/--that takes you to a tracking page showing which flights in progress have Wi-Fi, but they don't yet tell you how to determine whether a given flight you'll be on will offer the service. With 24 planes and a plan to add service one per week, that shouldn't be a problem for long.
Heathrow Airport Coach Link adds Internet service: Icomera, a leading transportation Wi-Fi firm, has added free Wi-Fi to FirstGroup's RailAir coach service that connects Heathrow Airport with Reading in England. RailAir runs every 20 minutes for a 50-minute route. FirstGroup handles 3 million passengers a day across all its routes, which makes it a plum market for future expansion.
