Comments on: Less is More – the Asus eee PC

By: Brian Winter

Brian Winter — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:59:51 +0000

No wonder Apple are not bothering to bring out a 9″ iBook, MacBook, iPad, whatever, they wouldn’t be able to compete with one of these I like the look of the 901 with a 20Gb SSD and the new Atom processor, a few quid more expensive that the 7″ screen but possibly well worth it for the larger memory and bigger storage. In black of course to match my Olympus E410.

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:30:47 +0000

Er, long story. The eeePC is fine but if I were replacing it there are some bargains now… the tiny Acer ones in Currys are quite neat. I think you can get one with a largish hard drive for not much over £200. See http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/18/review_acer_aspire_one/ – they have a roundup of lots of similar machines somewhere but I can’t find it. I’m sure you can get Windows ones for not much more.

By: James

James — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:39:39 +0000

Giles – how did you end up falling out with your eee? Lucy is after a laptop, but not a “big one” like my MacBook. But I don’t want her to get one if it’s just a bag of hurt. (She’d be looking at a Windows one, not Linux)

By: David

David — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:41:27 +0000

Your review was interesting. I want to get an inexpensive optical drive to go with the Asus eee but how can I be sure that what I buy will be compatible?

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:23:53 +0000

Weeelllll I meant gold-standard for ease of configuring a normal WEP setup, rather than its supported standards. For example, I still can’t make my work WindowsXP laptop talk to my wireless network unless I broadcast the SSID but the NintendoDS went straight in.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:36:27 +0000

Still waiting for mine, which is apparently with a courier and due to arrive today (yay!). One thing, though – I’m not sure about the DS being the gold standard for WiFi. I’m pretty sure that the last time I tried it couldn’t connect to WPA networks?