Update on my Asus eee PC 900: (Note- I’m typing this post up on my Asus eee )

After traveling around with it for two months I really appreciated it’s size. It fit perfectly into my motorcycle tank bag and at less than 2 pounds it’s practically not noticed when carrying it around.

The size of the screen is actually not a problem at all for using the internet or doing most other normal work.

The only thing I found myself disliking are that the buttons on the touchpad don’t always work, and the low powered CPU can at times be slow enough to be irritating.

After installing Ubuntu 8.04 and getting all the drivers and functionality working just right… any update to the kernel will cause you to go through many of the steps again as they require kernel updates.  This is not a fun process… so I ended up skipping updates while I was traveling as to avoid the hassle. In fact after the first two times of going through the process, I stopped doing it at all until I decided to try out the Ubuntu-eee distribution.

Here you see the main interface. Your programs are easily accessible from the left tabs, and your data from the right tabs. This is such a slick way of presenting information that even grandma could figure it out.

If you have the Asus eee pc 900, I’d highly recommend Ubuntu-eee for it instead of regular Ubuntu. You’ll have just a tad more screen room while doing all your normal tasks, an easy install and seemless updates, and a very intuitive main screen that minimizes the searching through menus.

In the screenshot above, note that there are 6 running applications, and each is give a small icon in the tab strip to provide access. This is very minimalistic but perfect for the tiny screen size.

Ubuntu-eee has all the correct drivers, everything just works out of the gate and seems to be faster. With the favorites tab, all of your apps are easy to get to. A fantastic environment on a still great little computer.

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