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Black 4G Asus EEE PC Review |
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Written by Говедо
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
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Page 2 - Presentation
Day One
There i am, holding the box with the EEE PC*, happy as can be. I run into my father infront of thЗасичаме се с баща ми пред гаражаe garrage.
F – Hi. What did you got? (Pointing at the box)
Me – Hi. Notebook.
F – Isn't it too small??
Me -Nooo... (catty)
Opened the box and shown him the real size. He didn't say anything, but i know he was thinking it.
The size of the box i s quite misleading, the contents can be fited in a smaller one. Saving few trees.
And speaking of contents – you get an EEE PC, book with instructions, short user manual, shorter booklet with basic steps for configuring of the WiFi, wireless PPPoE, short notes pointing out where to find information about setting up voice commands, installing Windows and performing Recovery procedure as well az miniatute list of aproved SD cards, printers and cameras. Waranty card, tiny guide for the battery in many languages (and not that is important for all of you out there but - short booklet for setting up different cyrilic keyboard layouts). That's the paper, besides it you get a Support DVD, charger and a sleeve case. Wich i admit was a surpprise for me, since i was not expecting it.
So... I pushed the power button an prepaired to wait. No dice! Ready to work in about 20 secconds. Fine, let's see the software. Fine organized in tabs and large icons, perspicuous even if not very common. Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype, Pidgin for conecting to the world. Open Office 2.0 for work. YaY! and a dictionary. Boo! English - Chinese ;(. Decent access to setting for the sound, appearance and voice commands. Interestinf file managr, all in all strong Windows feel. Overdone by the antivirus software?!? I can not explain why would Linux need such thing.
Slight unwonted feeling is left in me by the house in the left end of the taskbar. For both Linux and Windows users it is instinctively asociated with opening a menu. Not in this case it shows the desktop instead. As a backup there is a key for it on the keyboard.
The right end of the taskbar also holds usefull information. Key fot powering down**, EEE PC Tips, task manager (called “SOS”), watch, sound control, indicators for pressed Caps and Num lock, indicators for wireless network an battery/charging status. Others appear too but those ate the constant.
Fine, fine. Let's find Gelasii*** and dig in the net. Found him, as well as two other networks yet could not connect. I'm using Linksys WRT54GL and WPA Personal + AES and have heard that there might be trouble (with WPA, not the router), although hoped for the best. So I checked the card, the settings, turned it off and on, heck even tried to restart as if using Windows. Nothing worked, didn't get connected, either it was stuck Pending... or just did nothing. So i called it a night, being tired I had no intention to burn the midnight oil...
* 4GB, Black (not Surf), 512MB, 7B.
** From right to left.
***Gelasii is my wireless router.
