asus eee

[rogsmith]

Hello,does anyone have any experiance with one of these, if not could anyone give some advise on a good smallish laptop.It hasnt got to be high spec just for basic browsing and to run a few programes on ,no downloads, music ,films and not for playing any games.Thanks

[Tom]

My friend has one of these...


I love it.


There are a few problems with it though, mainly - tiny laptop = tiny keyboard.... and I mean tiny!

The backspace button is too small also. You'll make loads of mistakes on the tiny keys, then make more mistakes trying to erase your previous mistakes...

The touchpad is also really tiny, which i guess is up to personal preferance buts its a bit small for my fat fingers.

Lastly, for a laptop....... it doesn't fit on your lap.... It's jsut too small. You need either a table or just type one handed.

My friend got the version with the SD slot, which I really recomend because, whilst the the 4GB flash hard drive is stupidly fast (Boots its' Linux O/S in under 10 seconds), it just doesn't hold enough data.

My friend had XP placed on his, which i reccomend because you can get drivers to up the tiny 7" screen res. to 1024 * 768, plus you nget an operating system you're probably used to.

Generally, I love this laptop and If a had a couple'a hundred quid spare, i'd own one.

hope that helps you.