Kirk Petersen » netbook http://kirkpetersen.com Miscellany Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:00:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My EEE PC http://kirkpetersen.com/2008/10/21/my-eee-pc/ http://kirkpetersen.com/2008/10/21/my-eee-pc/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:08:38 +0000 kirk http://kirkpetersen.com/?p=206 Over the past year I’ve discovered that I don’t carry my Macbook Pro around as much as I used to carry my Macbook.

So I bought an ASUS Eee PC 1000H a couple months ago. It has a 10″ screen and is way more portable than either of my previous laptops.

I thought I’d dual boot Windows and Linux for a while but ended up blowing away the Windows partition in frustration (I always end up doing that for some reason).

I’m really happy with the hardware. There are just a couple issues: the hard drive was a bit noisy, so I dropped in a 32 GB SSD (which is great), and the display resolution is a bit low at 1024×600. Bumping up to 1280×720 would help a lot with most apps and web pages.

When the kinks are worked out of this type of netbook, and the price drops even further, it is going to have a huge impact on the industry. Apparently it already is.

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