I agree with your assessment, especially about the size. Great, its really thin. On one edge. The opposite edge is only a 1/4 inch thinner than the MB/MBP. The biggest portability advantage this has is the two pound weight loss compared to the MB.
Hopefully some of the new features, like the LED screen and multitouch make it into their other laptops, but that'll probably be awhile so they can milk this.
I was planning on getting some sort of portable computer soon and was waiting to see what was announced today. Last week's motorcycle incident and now this has pretty much made up my mind to go EEE (plus a couple hundred in shiny new Honda parts).
The Eee looks to be pretty easy on the eyes, since the screen's a nice cozy 133dpi. If I had to choose something right now with a bit more oomph, I'd probably go with a Fujitsu P1620 or the P7200 series.
My big concern with the Eee is that I'd pretty much have to run Linux, and that certain apps just won't work well on that screen. Beyond that, yeah, I'm not about to pay double the price for a gutted Macbook that's been sealed shut.
It's not the work, it's the storage. You'd probably have to go with the 8GB model to really use it comfortably (as certain apps won't install to removable storage such as a giant horking SD card,) and at 800x480, the real pain in the ass is from windows that need more vertical real estate. The OQO has that problem, but gets around it with zoomed scaling by default.
I *could* probably get by regardless, but that's an exercise that I'm saving for much much later.
I don't need a lot of space for programs, but Ofiice isn't a bad idea to have around for me, and my XP install directory would use up over 4GB as per my UX install. True, that's not an XPlite install, but that's part of the problem.
Less is more (expensive)
Date: 2008-01-16 12:30 am (UTC)Hopefully some of the new features, like the LED screen and multitouch make it into their other laptops, but that'll probably be awhile so they can milk this.
I was planning on getting some sort of portable computer soon and was waiting to see what was announced today. Last week's motorcycle incident and now this has pretty much made up my mind to go EEE (plus a couple hundred in shiny new Honda parts).
Re: Less is more (expensive)
Date: 2008-01-16 12:56 am (UTC)My big concern with the Eee is that I'd pretty much have to run Linux, and that certain apps just won't work well on that screen. Beyond that, yeah, I'm not about to pay double the price for a gutted Macbook that's been sealed shut.
Re: Less is more (expensive)
Date: 2008-01-16 04:56 pm (UTC)Re: Less is more (expensive)
Date: 2008-01-16 05:20 pm (UTC)I *could* probably get by regardless, but that's an exercise that I'm saving for much much later.
Re: Less is more (expensive)
Date: 2008-01-16 05:45 pm (UTC)Still the lack of space is good point. But I'd approach it pretty much like what it is and ssh tools and such are relatively small.
Re: Less is more (expensive)
Date: 2008-01-16 07:13 pm (UTC)