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Asus Eee PC900HA XP Netbook
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220441
I've had it for about a week. For $350, it's everything I had hoped for.
But geez, the keyboard is cramped! Yes, I expected it, but it's quite
difficult to type well.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. The wireless connection seems to pick up
everything. Who knew there were so many wifi networks in the middle of
nowhere? Apparently, I'm a late adopter... Most are unsecured, too, so
(ethical considerations aside) you could basically strap it onto your back
while riding your bike and send emails to your friends at the edge of a
cornfield. Yes, I tried it in a couple places.
The beautiful thing about it is the size. It's about like carrying around a
day-planner. The downside is also its size, with the tiny screen
(1024x600), but it works well for everything I had wanted, and it is
possible to plug in a monitor, keyboard and mouse if you really want. I
haven't tried POV-Ray yet, but it's on my list of things to do.
Me happy. =D
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Jeremy M. Praay wrote:
> Asus Eee PC900HA XP Netbook
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220441
Just admit it, you bought it because it's shiny. :D
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Kyle wrote:
> Just admit it, you bought it because it's shiny. :D
Hell, the whole point of ray tracing is that it lets you draw endless
shiny things!! o_O
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4908c624$1@news.povray.org...
> Kyle wrote:
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>> Just admit it, you bought it because it's shiny. :D
>
> Hell, the whole point of ray tracing is that it lets you draw endless
> shiny things!! o_O
>
Tiny and shiny. I couldn't resist!
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>Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecmo> wrote in message
>news:4908c074$1@news.povray.org...
> (ethical considerations aside) you could basically strap it onto your back
> while riding your bike and send emails to your friends at the edge of a
> cornfield. Yes, I tried it in a couple places.
Ummm... No, I didn't strap it to my bike while riding my bike, I just tried
it from my car. ;-)
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Ah, they had one of those at the local Best Buy. Sure, it's cute, but it's
too tiny to type on! Crazy high resolution for such a small screen though.
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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Tim Cook wrote:
> Ah, they had one of those at the local Best Buy. Sure, it's cute, but
> it's too tiny to type on! Crazy high resolution for such a small screen
> though.
If I was to buy one of these, I would type with a pen. :)
On the downside, I'd feel lost without keyboard shortcuts in text
editors... :(
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Jeremy M. Praay skrev:
> Asus Eee PC900HA XP Netbook
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220441
...
And yesterday I bought an Eee PC 901 with Linux (of course).
> Me happy. =D
Me too =))
--
Tor Olav
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> Hell, the whole point of ray tracing is that it lets you draw endless
> shiny things!! o_O
>
Ah, so there's the attraction. Raytracing allows you to create shiny
things with relative ease.
--
~Mike
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"nemesis" <nam### [at] nospamgmailcom> wrote in message
news:4908f0ba$1@news.povray.org...
> Tim Cook wrote:
>> Ah, they had one of those at the local Best Buy. Sure, it's cute, but
>> it's too tiny to type on! Crazy high resolution for such a small screen
>> though.
>
> If I was to buy one of these, I would type with a pen. :)
>
> On the downside, I'd feel lost without keyboard shortcuts in text
> editors... :(
Yes, typing is a pain... Moreso, because Home, PgUp, PgDn, End., are only
accessible via the "fn" (function) key, which essentially means that you can
generally forget about using home and end, and just arrow up, down, left,
right... It seems like they could have used some of the space beside the
touch pad to add a few more keys.
Aside from that, I still love it. It's just not a machine that you really
want to use to type a lot of emails, or program on. How can you program
without pgup and pgdn being easily accessible? But again, if you really
wanted to do that stuff, you could always hook it up to a real keyboard,
mouse, monitor, but presumably, you'd have a "real" computer to do that
with.
I feel it's more of an extension to an existing network of computers, which
can be used for "light duty" work. It's nice to be able to play poker
(online) while sitting in the living room with my family, rather than
retiring to the basement to play for the evening. Likewise, I can remotely
control my desktop to re-run a POV-Ray render with a couple minor changes,
without having to run up and down the stairs every 15-30 minutes to check
progress. Maybe I could even do both at once. ;-)
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