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When I stopped by Microcenter to pick up some USB flash drives for the office (8 GB for $18, hey hey!), I took the opportunity to play around with Eee PCs that they had on display. I've been thinking about picking up one of the mid-range ones sometime in the future when finances allow such things again for times that I'd like to have a computer handy but don't want to lug my heavy laptop around. Sometimes even the awesome Halloween-themed Hello Kitty skin doesn't make up for hauling around the weight of my current laptop.
It turns out that I actually liked the Acer Aspire One much better, but maybe that's because I know what I'm doing in XP and the Eee interface (the displays were all running their Linux variant) made me go "Buh? How do I get to a terminal window so that I can DO anything?" Have I mentioned lately that I get very attached to my interfaces and am disconcerted easily when they change? I'm assuming that you can get rid of the "big friendly buttons" interface if you want to, yes? It was getting late and I didn't have time to screw around long enough to figure out what, if any, different modes were available.
I also tried to play around with the g netbook, but someone had locked the screen and it had the most annoying touchpad in the entire freakin' world, so that one's right out.
It turns out that I actually liked the Acer Aspire One much better, but maybe that's because I know what I'm doing in XP and the Eee interface (the displays were all running their Linux variant) made me go "Buh? How do I get to a terminal window so that I can DO anything?" Have I mentioned lately that I get very attached to my interfaces and am disconcerted easily when they change? I'm assuming that you can get rid of the "big friendly buttons" interface if you want to, yes? It was getting late and I didn't have time to screw around long enough to figure out what, if any, different modes were available.
I also tried to play around with the g netbook, but someone had locked the screen and it had the most annoying touchpad in the entire freakin' world, so that one's right out.
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You've got the 2GB Surf? Yeah, I hadn't looked closely enough; in the notes section of one of the "how to upgrade memory" pages, I did just find the "this doesn't work on the 2GB Surf because the memory is soldered to the system board". Well, there goes that plan for sure.
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It is a great deal. And the form factor is really nice. And lots of people enjoy it a great deal. But, it's not nearly as easy to setup as the ad copy would lead you to believe, and, unlike many Linux machines, it actively discourages user customization.