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Once upon a long time ago there used be a site seldomly updated by a guy who called himself Mr. Moon. That same site still exists today and it’s still seldomly update by Mr. Moon. It is however frequently updated by people he very loosely terms “friends”. And I dont mean that in the nasty way – i mean it in the “i dont talk to you all nearly as often as I should” way. Isnt it just so cool that little old site now has a life of its own? it is an organic beast, growing weekly – almost daily.
So today i come to you via a new toy. You all know how much I love my gadgets, but this one is just… well words defy me. Imagine a laptop PC quite literally 1/4 of the size of your average laptop. Imagine it is loaded with a Linux distribution that provides all of your daily needs – OpenOffice, Firefox for the web, Thunderbird for the email… and thats just the software. The hardware includes built in wireless, 3 USB2.0 ports, a VGA port for a secondary monitor, touchpad mouse, 512MB of RAM and a solid state hard drive. That means NO spinny bits to get destroyed when its (invariably) dropped from a small height. Yes it has a 4GB onboard flash memory, roughly 2.3GB used by the system, the other free for you to use. It has a built in webcam that works with the pre-installed Skype. Everything the average user needs. This is NOT a toy for a power user, but a tool for a student on a budget or a tight wad Chief Financial Officer. And all this for $500. I kid you not. ($600 if you want the windows XP version). So what is it? The ASUS EeePC. Google it ya bums, i cant be bothered giving you a link. I love it! The only thing Im not that fussed on is the funky small keyboard. cool for little digits but no good for me!! (as you can probably tell by my crap typing). Anyways… we bought it for Taylah to do her homework and stuff. on. And I’m in love. It just ROCKS. That’s all i have to say about that… except that… for the record my CFO hates it
14
May
Oooh, I like! Plus it’s an ASUS – which, after buying my ASUS laptop 5 years ago, I’m rather impressed by
Really? Ive never cared that much for them myself… but i loves this one. If i could just get the linux drivers for our brother printer installed id be a really happy guy
i have seen the xp version floating around in a few lectures…at first i mocked the dude (like i do my mate) for owning a mac book…then i looked closer…and mocked him harder. ld take rather have a mac book over an ASUS, and i HATE any thing that apple has invented with the exception of the new ITunes. would still rather anything with a Toshiba logo on it any day…even if it means taking my two year old techra over a brand new compaq or HP…(just quietly of played with both factory models…and techra would eat both of them for breakfast after the upgrades i’ve done to her.)
I don’t know buggery all about laptops in general, but I have learnt that if you spill a beer onto one it will no longer work.