I got an Asus to take on hol\u00adi\u00adday (vaca\u00adtion) with me, and to play around with. They\u2019re cute and small and way easi\u00ader to lug around than a laptop. With the small screen doing ser\u00adi\u00adous work is more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult (a plus when you\u2019re not meant to be work\u00ading) but I can still check email and web sites and maybe even catch up on some blogging.<\/p>\n
I got the 4G<\/span> ver\u00adsion, and had the RAM<\/span> increased to 2 GB<\/span> in the shop so the war\u00adranty is still val\u00adid. Just in case. Not to men\u00adtion which, it cost all of $15 and 5 minutes for them to do it, and it would prob\u00adably have taken me longer to find the right screwdriver.<\/p>\n First impres\u00adsions: it\u2019s cute. The \u201ceasy desktop\u201d is mostly use\u00adful, and the selec\u00adtion of applic\u00ada\u00adtions reas\u00adon\u00adable (Fire\u00adfox, Thun\u00adder\u00adbird, Skype, Open Office, Pidgin). I\u2019m try\u00ading to restrain my inner geek and see how much I can get done with the easy desktop before I revert to type and install the full desktop. Some things don\u2019t change though; one of the first things I did was find where to update soft\u00adware (add\/remove pan\u00adel) and update everything. You get this weird mes\u00adsage for some applic\u00ada\u00adtions, such as Skype, say\u00ading that you can remove the pack\u00adage after updat\u00ading, without say\u00ading wheth\u00ader that\u2019s just to clean up the pack\u00adage remains after they\u2019ve been installed, or wheth\u00ader it really does remove the whole thing. Giv\u00aden you can\u00ad\u2019t remove (most of?) the default soft\u00adware, I\u2019m assum\u00ading it would actu\u00adally unin\u00adstall those applic\u00ada\u00adtions that can be removed; maybe when I have time to do the delete\/reinstall cycle I\u2019ll try out that assumption.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure how far I can get without installing and con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00ading some extra stuff. Some of the instruc\u00adtions and scripts the on Abso\u00adlute Begin\u00adners Wiki<\/a> look use\u00adful so I\u2019ll prob\u00adably break down and try them out. Part of the reas\u00adon for restrain\u00ading myself on this is curi\u00ados\u00adity \u2014 what does a Taiwanese com\u00adpany think that \u201chouse\u00adwives, office ladies and stu\u00addents\u201d<\/a> need in a mobile inter\u00adnet device? Part is also to fig\u00adure out wheth\u00ader I can recom\u00admend this sort of device to non-tech\u00adnic\u00adal people I know, or wheth\u00ader I\u2019ll also have to tell them to do X, Y, and Z to make it usable.<\/p>\n More later, after I\u2019ve played with it a bit more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got an Asus to take on hol\u00adi\u00adday (vaca\u00adtion) with me, and to play around with. They\u2019re cute and small and way easi\u00ader to lug around than a laptop. With the small screen doing ser\u00adi\u00adous work is more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult (a plus when you\u2019re not meant to be work\u00ading) but I can still check email and \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cAsus eee: first looks\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-asus-eee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}