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[News] More Good Reviews of the Linux-based Eee PC Keep Coming

  • Subject: [News] More Good Reviews of the Linux-based Eee PC Keep Coming
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:50:33 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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For a tiny notebook, eee-sy does it

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| The eee is an endlessly charming and compelling machine, as underscored by 
| the passionate (and helpful) community of eee PC users (check out 
| www.eeeuser.com). "A great kids' PC," I want to conclude. "A terrific Web 
| appliance" also seems right, as does "a valuable mobile accessory."   
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http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/816955,CST-FIN-andy28.article

Asus EEE PC, not just a little and cheap laptop

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| My first thoughts was cool! this is going to be a huge hit in the developed 
| countries, apart from its future about a cheap laptop for childrens in poor 
| countries.   
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http://antirez.com/post/Asus-EEE-PC-not-just-a-little-and-cheap-laptop.html


Related:

2007's most important IT lesson is spelled with an Eee

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| The Eee shows too just how out of date the 'is Linux ready for the desktop?' 
|                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| argument is. Yes it is. Anyone can pick up an Eee with its standard Linux 
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| distro - or with a number of freely available alternatives - and just use it. 
| That alone revitalises the 'is this paid-for operating system value for 
| money?' question.    
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006830o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment


Linux Assimilation

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| Have you ever thought about all of the places Linux has been popping up 
| lately? It's not just in your computer anymore. Linux is powering mobile 
| phones, handheld gaming consoles, GPS systems, e-book readers, and more. 
| Personally, I'm waiting for the Linux refrigerator, the Ubuntu frigidaire, 
| which will be fast, cold, and powerful enough to churn out ice cubes like 
| there's no tomorrow.     
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http://linuxhow2.com/News/Linux_Assimilation_Asus_and_the_World.html


The little laptop that could -- do just about anything the big boys can

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| Many people are, apparently. The Taiwan company reportedly exceeded 
| expectations in the past quarter, shipping 350,000 Eees out the door. 
| 
| When more people get them, they'll lose that cool factor. I don't care a whit 
| about that. Just don't take away my Eee. 
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=a329f567-c3e4-4318-a0ef-c39b58d7e513


Deliver us from Microsoft

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| This is a computer designed as an introductory machine for children or 
| adults, as well as a simple cheap do-it-all machine along the “One Laptop Per 
| Child” model but which is also absolutely ideal as a truly cheap, portable, 
| resilient device to slam into a backpack or briefcase. Everything you could 
| want is there in free, Open Source form. It does not pretend to cater for the 
| power user but, while file management is basic for the average person, 
| tuxheads (Linux experts) can go straight to terminal mode and do their stuff. 
| Meanwhile, for the rest of us, this is a wonderful little friend who does all 
| we need straight out of the box. And it is only the beginning…        
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http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=39


Review: Asus Eee PC

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| There are few dramas in store when using the Eee: the user interface for 
| Xandros Linux is well-thought out, and easy to get to grips with. You get 
| just about all the apps any new computer has, such as web browser and email 
| (Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird respectively), a good media player (Amarok) 
| and a decent productivity suite (OpenOffice 2.0).    
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4384373a18335.html


Asus Eee PC: Why is it SO Hot?

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| Laptop magazine almost  blew its dongle over the Asus, breathlessly 
| proclaiming it, “Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the 
| planet.” (What, not the entire solar system?) CNET took a more tempered 
| approach, yet still deemed it a “near perfect choice for a highly portable 
| second or backup laptop.”    
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3724731


ASUS preps $500 'iMac killer' Eee PC desktop

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| The computer builder also says it will build a headless desktop, the E-DT, 
| which will at first use a Celeron but then switch to the Shelton platform. 
| Most details are unavailable, though the price should range between $200 and 
| $300 and is being pushed towards the $200 mark. A third system known as the 
| E-TV will combine a basic Eee PC platform with a 42-inch LCD TV and should 
| cost about $200 more than a comparable TV that ships without such features.     
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/30/asus.eee.pc.all.in.one/


Asus Says Eee PC is Most Successful Product Ever

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| An interesting piece of news from Asus’s press conference is that the Eee PC 
| is their “most successful product ever,” according to Engadget. This is 
| potentially huge news for Linux on two levels.  
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http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/07/asus-says-eee-pc-is-most-successful-product-ever/


Asustek Eee PC shipments beat expectations

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| Asustek has shipped almost 350,000 units of the Eee PC in the quarter, ahead 
| of the 300,000 estimated, according to Taiwan's DigiTimes. 
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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/12/21/asustek_eee_pc_shipments_beat_expectations.html


2007's most important IT lesson is spelled with an Eee

,----[ Qote ]
| The Eee shows too just how out of date the 'is Linux ready for the desktop?' 
| argument is. Yes it is. Anyone can pick up an Eee with its standard Linux 
| distro - or with a number of freely available alternatives - and just use it. 
| That alone revitalises the 'is this paid-for operating system value for 
| money?' question.    
`----

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006830o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment


Asustek ups Eee PC sales f'cast by two-thirds

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| Asustek had said that it hoped to become the world's fifth-largest laptop PC 
| vendor by 2010. 
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTP4901620071128


Asus Eee PC as 'hard to get your hands on as a Wii'

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| Asus' elfin Eee PC is coming to Japan and it's going to get 16GB of 
| solid-state storage, it has been claimed. Meanwhile, in the UK availability 
| has reached Wii-like limits, according to insiders.  
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/18/eee_pc_wii_japan/


Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs

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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same 
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a 
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs 
| in users' hands.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the 
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows 
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. 
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can 
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice 
| of the desktop market pie.      
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html


Asus Eee Is a Tiny PC That Hits the Mark: Hands-on Blogger Review

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| Unlike the Sony UX490 or the Nokia N810 I covered in my previous review, the 
| Asus has a real, if diminutive, keyboard. Though the keys are small, it's 
| pretty easy to hit the correct one without thinking—except for the right 
| shift key, which is tiny and dangerously close to the up arrow. But a bit of 
| practice has gotten me used to that. (There's also no CAPS LOCK light, which 
| is occasionally irritating.) Still, it's easy to type on—I'm writing this 
| review on it—in a way that the slide-out keypads on the Sony and Nokia are 
| not.        
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4247009.html


Eeedora Impressions

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| The installation process went on pretty smoothly. During partitioning, I was 
| pretty much rid of Xandros - the chosen default was actually the most 
| sensible. Just one / partition, filling up the entire disk, with no swap. As 
| usual, anaconda (the Fedora installer) will warn you that not having a swap 
| partition will be detrimental to performance - I wonder how many newbies 
| might decide to create a swap partition (kind of a big no-no, on these SSD 
| based devices).      
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http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/01/31/eeedora-impressions

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