The Eee PC models with the 10 inch screen have full sized keys.
I have an original Eee PC 701 with the 7 inch screen. It has been
great as a portable information and connection device. Even with the
cramped keyboard it has served my purposes very well. And the forums
and the wiki at
http://www.eeeuser.com have loads of information about
all the Eee PC models.
Strong advice about them in the forums and by my own experience: Dump
the Asus made, Xandros based Linux install that comes with them.
Install one of the Eee PC Ubuntu flavors to get stability and updates
that don't break things. Asus does not seem to have a clue on how to
put together a distribution.
I think most basic users would love a Linux based netbook since they
do all the basics very well.
Alan
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Stephen <
cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am preferring the aspire 1 myself
>
> The eeepc has a tiny assed keyboard
>
>
> On 5/21/09, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:29 -0700, Eric Cope wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>> I have a friend who's mom wants a netbook, probably because its small
>>> and cute. He asked my recommendation, but I have no experience. Does
>>> anyone on the list have experience supporting people who know next to
>>> nothing using a netbook, preferably Linux version?
>>> Thanks,
>> ----
>> I have an Acer Aspire One which I bought with 160 Gb HD and had Windows
>> XP on it. I used a USB flash drive to shrink the WinXP partition down to
>> 32 Gb and for the most part, used the rest of the hard drive and
>> installed Fedora on it. You can use the 'live' version on a USB key
>> disk...not sure why someone would do that unless just trying it out.
>>
>> I also found it necessary to give it a larger virtual screen because the
>> 1024x600 just seemed too small to me so I'm running it at 1280x1024.
>> Pretty much everything works.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One
>>
>> and the generic page with links for most of the popular distributions is
>> at...
>>
>> http://aspireone.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
>>
>> Craig
>>
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