My new toy
Posted on:April 14 2008
Recently I bought myself a little new toy, it's an Eee PC. I ordered via Internet and never saw an Eee PC before in real life until the package arrived, so I was totally surprised that it is THAT small. Here is a picture of it in action, compared to a normal PC DVD Box: 
I totally like it, especially because it is very handy compared to a normal notebook. The preinstalled Xandros Linux OS is ok, although you need a lot of manual tweaking in the config files and even some bug fixing in the boot scripts until it gets usable for a more technical user. After I had changed the font sizes of KDE and installed Opera (ideal browser for that screensize btw, firefox is still not able to resize webpages correctly and about 3 times slower than Opera on this system) I'm totally happy with that piece of hardware, I can really recommend it if you are away on business a lot, like me.
I totally like it, especially because it is very handy compared to a normal notebook. The preinstalled Xandros Linux OS is ok, although you need a lot of manual tweaking in the config files and even some bug fixing in the boot scripts until it gets usable for a more technical user. After I had changed the font sizes of KDE and installed Opera (ideal browser for that screensize btw, firefox is still not able to resize webpages correctly and about 3 times slower than Opera on this system) I'm totally happy with that piece of hardware, I can really recommend it if you are away on business a lot, like me.
Comments:
nice! where did you order it? it still doesn't seem to be easily available anywhere.
horace
Quote2008-04-14 18:30:00
I simply used geizhals.at, it offers a meta search for all austrian online shops :)
niko
Quote2008-04-14 19:38:00
Should try Firefox 3.
It somehow annoys me that the screen doesnt cover the whole space that is there. If i was to get an Eee PC, 'd wait for a version where it does.
It somehow annoys me that the screen doesnt cover the whole space that is there. If i was to get an Eee PC, 'd wait for a version where it does.
Matthias
Quote2008-04-15 00:24:00
does the fan start often?
with passive cooling and a screen that covers the whole space the eee would be perfect. :)
with passive cooling and a screen that covers the whole space the eee would be perfect. :)
horace
Quote2008-04-15 01:44:00
Man that's small. But as long as you're fine with it I'm fine with it ;)
P.S
niko, check your mail :)
P.S
niko, check your mail :)
MasterGod
Quote2008-04-15 05:07:00
didn't notice tha fan until now at all. hm :)
@mastergod: don't have any unanswered mail in my inbox, so I hope you got your answer.. :)
@mastergod: don't have any unanswered mail in my inbox, so I hope you got your answer.. :)
niko
Quote2008-04-15 17:01:00
Why can't you install opera? It works on most linux distros
TSM
Quote2008-04-16 06:57:00
hm, what do you mean by "why can't you install opera"? That's opera actually on the photo I blogged :)
niko
Quote2008-04-16 15:13:00
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