[ALUG] Asus Eee pc 4G

[Adrian F. Clark]

On 10 Dec 2007, at 14:53, Rob Page wrote:

> "There has been a lot of discussion about this on IRC and at least one
> ALUG member has already purchased one."
>
> *looks smug*, that'd be me. And it is totally lovely, and the keyboard
> is surprisingly usable.... so.. *recommends*

One of my students has bought an eee too and I can confirm that the  
keyboard is a bit on the small side but still usable -- certainly  
more so than my old Toshiba Libretto.  He says battery life is 3.5-4  
hours.

The student concerned finds that he can't execute programs from his  
USB memory stick: the system  isn't setting the execute bit upon  
compilation or honouring chmods.  I don't know is this is because of  
the format of his stick or if the system is doing something to make  
it difficult -- but I reckon it's something that most of us would  
like to know the answer to before buying.

HTH.

..Adrian
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