I had a chance to play with the eee pc last week. Thanks very much to my colleague Rosalind.
Its a really neat device. The button on the touch pad is really stiff so its hard to use it comfortably but other than that, its great!. No complaints at all and hey, Its Linux!
It could do with some fine tuning to reduce the space taken up. I wouldn't use it as a workhorse so OpenOffice is a bit overkill. Better to replace it with Gnumeric and Abiword.
One really useful feature is that it allows a factory reset just by pressing F9 when rebooting. Everything is restored to its original setting from the hidden partition. This makes the device a prime device for testing software packages and maybe even installing other OSes.
Now if we could only get access to that hidden partition.... what wonders that would hold.
By the way, did I mention that I'm the first in company to recover a crashed eee pc? Yay!
