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I"m a classroom teacher and I wanted to try it out in my class.My students love it. It's just their size. The games on it are great and it has the word processing that I want my students to be able to do.
and the convenience of online usage and game fun. it's just nearly impossible to beat, and i think that's why i hate it, lol.
i do have my dislikes though, which are pretty much the same complaints as everyone else's. like the keys are pretty small, even for me, and i have teenie fingers, lol [size 5 ring size, lol].i also have issues with the games sometimes.
i'm actually on my cute lil asus now, and it's really great to just carry around. and the penguin racer is fine.
like the solitaire games will SOMETIMES tell me if there is no chance of winning. and the frozen bubble SOMETIMES doesn't play the music all static-y.
potato guy is pointless, unless my 2 year old niece wants a giggle:)also the screen size can be irritating, because you pretty much have to scroll online for everything.pretty much though, i love it for it's cute color [i got pink]. i'd recommend this to anyone who isn't a computer nerd and needs it for anything but the internet.
The Eee 2G Surf is very cute and can get on the internet without a problem, You won't be able to play any Pogo games on it and the DIVX movies are a little jurky, I found expanding the movie screen to full screen got the video and audio out of sinc and drove me crazy but leaving it and just expanding the player was best.
It IS light, you won't even notice it in your backpack. But the experience sucks. Keys that trip you up and cause you to delete whole sentences in a single slip (thank god for undo). And if anything goes wrong, good luck fixing it, linux is still for techies, and completely unapologetic for the non technical crowd. Yes I still use this thing, so it can't be that bad. Tiny screen. Painfully slow.
Awful linux interface. Tiny postage stamp of a mouse pad. Yes its a 300 dollar laptop. It's not really feasible to reread your work on a monitor this size, and editing is so key for improving your writing. Forget web surfing. Installing software feels like you're hacking the system. But its painful to use this thing. When it works, it connects to the internet reasonably fast, and I can use google docs to write stories.
What you save in cash you pay for in frustration. It's a nice color. Unimpressive battery life leaves you tethered to an outlet. A year ago I bought this computer to write with, and my experience with it has taught me the value of not skimping on things like screen size, keyboard size, and mousepad size. It is relatively stable (but when it crashes it goes down hard). Writing is hard enough.As soon as a I can, I'm going to sell this thing, sell my imac, and get a macbook pro.
Only to discover Amazon won't let me sell it used on Amazon. I bought this nearly a year ago, figuring something small and portable might be useful for taking notes and jotting down ideas when travelling. Apparently they only let "specially approved" dealers sell some things. Unfortunately the keyboard is much too small. I kept trying to work around but finally gave up. So Don't Buy It If You Are Not Sure You Will Want To Keep It. Some things like the small keyboard are not obvious from the web - borrow someone else's or buy it from someone with an extended return policy.
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