I love this little guy. I am typing on it right now, this very instance. Everyone I show the thing to has to touch it, play with it, hump it, and give it a kiss. It could be the awesome form factor or the fact the thing is so damn cool!
I have installed XP on it as I was having major issues tethering my Treo 700wx to the advanced Linux install. I had no problems with the Xandros install once I went to the advanced option. I would have stayed with the original OS, but the idea of retrieving email and having this thing completely portable was a nice option for a mover and shaker like myself. Now my decision was also based on the fact I bought a new gaming laptop from Asus as well off Newegg. I bought the Asus G1S and it is a little to large to always haul to the office.
I got the Galaxy Black Surf model at 4 gigs of pure pleasure. Upon installing xp I still had a little over a gig left, but this is of no concern to this kid as I also have an 8 gig sd card and bought a USB powered portable HD. I have installed Half Life on the USB and this thing runs it flawlessly.
This is seriously one of my favorite purchases I have made in the gadget realm and Robb may back me up, I am a sucker for all gadgets.
Get it from Newegg and you will have it extremely fast. Go check out the
http://forum.eeeuser.com/ and you may have as much fun as I have had finding games to run and hacking the shit out of this baby. The 512 is plenty as well. I have not seen any issues with this thing running stuff. Openoffice runs like a champ from the SD card and I love being able to take this thing to my various stereos throughout the house to listen to
www.pandora.com radio.
Battery life is around 4 hours when closing the lid and listening to pandora.
Hope that helps, you will not regret your purchase. The price is right and it is fun as hell to tote this feather weight system around.
I love this little guy. I am typing on it right now, this very instance. Everyone I show the thing to has to touch it, play with it, hump it, and give it a kiss. It could be the awesome form factor or the fact the thing is so damn cool!
I have installed XP on it as I was having major issues tethering my Treo 700wx to the advanced Linux install. I had no problems with the Xandros install once I went to the advanced option. I would have stayed with the original OS, but the idea of retrieving email and having this thing completely portable was a nice option for a mover and shaker like myself. Now my decision was also based on the fact I bought a new gaming laptop from Asus as well off Newegg. I bought the Asus G1S and it is a little to large to always haul to the office.
I got the Galaxy Black Surf model at 4 gigs of pure pleasure. Upon installing xp I still had a little over a gig left, but this is of no concern to this kid as I also have an 8 gig sd card and bought a USB powered portable HD. I have installed Half Life on the USB and this thing runs it flawlessly.
This is seriously one of my favorite purchases I have made in the gadget realm and Robb may back me up, I am a sucker for all gadgets.
Get it from Newegg and you will have it extremely fast. Go check out the http://forum.eeeuser.com/ and you may have as much fun as I have had finding games to run and hacking the shit out of this baby. The 512 is plenty as well. I have not seen any issues with this thing running stuff. Openoffice runs like a champ from the SD card and I love being able to take this thing to my various stereos throughout the house to listen to www.pandora.com radio.
Battery life is around 4 hours when closing the lid and listening to pandora.
Hope that helps, you will not regret your purchase. The price is right and it is fun as hell to tote this feather weight system around.