On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote:
I almost bought one of those on Saturday. Would you keep a regular laptop after buying one of these? Would you consider it a replacement for the laptop, an alternative or just a cool toy?
I tried one of the EeePCs and the keys were small enough I can't see using it for everything. In fact I ended up not getting one of those and just waited and got a full-size laptop.
This is my desktop replacement! The keyboard layout is much better than my eeepc. Screen size is perfect for two side by side terminals.
I run gentoo on mine. Its pretty fast at 3193 bogomips with the core2 instruction set. Some people say the Atom is slow, but I believe that's famous Intel marketing just like they did with the Celeron. The hard drive speed isn't bad either: 61MB/sec. That makes it quick for compiling code.
Laptops with 15" screens are way to big!