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Originally Posted by philodox
I agree, it would be no fun doing any real work on the EEE pc.  |
I think of the EEE in terms of usability as being somewhere between the Nokia 770/800 and the iPod and the Air or some other Ultra Portable Laptop. The reduced sized keyboard and mouse pad and the smaller screen (lower resolution too as I recall, which causes you to have to do quite a bit side to side scrolling on many web pages like I have to do on my Nokia 770) may cause some usability issues. I hear that the EEE is quite responsive running Linux and works well as a browser for sites that don't have alot of Flash animation/applications.
It's a matter of degrees I guess. I had purchased a Nokia 770 for when I wanted to go REALLY light. The Air will open up the number of situations where I'd consider bringing on a laptop along by the virtue of it being far more pleasant to bring along than my current 15" Powerbook.
I think the EEE is a really cool device, especially if you have the hacking/do it yourself spirit and have the time/skills to extend it. It's just not enough of a leap up in usability/performance from my heavily hacked Nokia 770, which was fun to hack but no where as usable/stable as OS X.
This is a great discussion, there are alot of very valid and insightful opinions here and I'm having a good time taking it all in.
BTW, I started a Google Group for the MacBook Air (soon to be) owners/fans to talk and share information, as I've only found a few worthwhile discussion threads scattered in various web site forums (namely this one and a couple on MacRumors.com and some other Mac/Apple sites) that haven't degenerated into silly trolling/yelling matches/mindless Apple fanboy rants.
Please check it out, hopefully the group will amount to something and become a useful resource:
http://groups.google.com/group/mac-book-air
Dave