[TriLUG] hands-on Eee

[Jim Tuttle]

I was hoping to bring mine (well, it actually belongs to the Libraries)
to the April 10th meeting, but I have to pick my wife up from the
airport.  People are free to drop by the NC State Libraries (D.H. Hill)
and try mine.  Parking will likely kill you, though.

Jim


om Roche wrote:
> Douglas Ward Thu Mar 27 12:35:46 EDT 2008
>  > I saw a big [Asus] Eee pc display at the computer shop next to the
>  > Alltel store on Walnut Street in Cary.  Don't remember the name of
>  > the pc shop,
> 
> Anything PC
> http://www.anythingpc.net/index.html
> 
> Doesn't have hours on their site, but IIRC they're MTHF 10-8, W 10-6,
> S 10-4, closed U.
> 
>  > It's in the big Best Buy shopping center across the street from
>  > Crossroads Ford.
> 
> Correct. When I went in Saturday, I didn't see a big display, but they
> did have a 4G available for use (though not on wireless, alas), so I
> was able to ascertain that
> 
> * the screen, though definitely small, is usable
> 
> * the keyboard will take some getting used to
> 
> * performance seemed snappy (with the caveat that it wasn't really
>    networking)
> 
> * Xandros is not too weird
> 
> FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>


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