> > The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!?? > > > > It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the > shelves in the vast numbers that they have. > > > £220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny > screen, and is generally just unusable (I have used one, Its awfull > since I havs stubby fingers, and since Im short sighted) I could get > a much better used thinkpad X30 for the price. £100 is an acceptable > price though, not as a main laptop, but as essentially a large PDA, > which is what I want this for. Woah! Hold on there...
That's your opinion, In my humble opinion (as I've actually owned an Eee PC since they came out), it's a stunning bit of kit. It's got superb build quality for £200, it does have a 'real' keyboard, granted it's something like 80% of size of a full sized keyboard, but it's a tiny machine, it's supposed to be a tiny machine, so it's GOT to have a smaller keyboard. And yes, I do have sausage fingers, but after a few hours use, it feels like a normal sized keyboard to me now. Yes, you could get an old laptop for £200, but you couldn't stick an old laptop in a large coat pocket, could you? Yes, £100 would be a much better price, but be realistic, there is £150+ worth of hardware in there, so they couldn't sell it for £100.... "as a main laptop" - of course not, it's not designed to be a main laptop/PC, it's a tiny low powered, easily portable laptop - that's the point. The thing is tiny, the charger is tiny (like a mobile phone charger) - it fits in backpack hardly taking up any room. As for a large PDA... how many PDAs offer that kind of functionality??? You seem to have completely missed the point, it's not designed to be a cheap laptop, it's designed to a small laptop. The price is a bonus, given that UMPCs like to VAIOs cost £1200... > > > > I will start saving ASAP > > > > If I were you I'd wait for the 8GB eee to come out and pick up a 2nd > hand 4GB ee which I'm sure some people would sell to upgrade :) > The thing is that the 8GB has been promised and rumoured for 2+ months now, and increase of flash memory, its only going to add to the price of the Eee2. Given that Play.com are selling high speed 4GB SDHC cards for £10 inc postage, it seems daft to wait... And who's going to sell if they can up the memory to 8GB for £10, and keep another 4GB taped to the underside of the case... :) Best Eee PC comedy moment so far? Sat in Wetherspoons with a friend of mine, the day after I go it, using Wetherspoons free wifi connection and the built in webcam to have a Skype video chat with a friend of ours in the next town... Geeks huh? #2 is reading my email in the car going down the M1 (no I wasn't driving) with a bluetooth connection to my phone and the phones 3G data connection... LOL not tried a Skype video chat in a moving car yet... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
