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Ok, so it’s only running an Intel Celeron single-core processor with 1GB of RAM. But we’re running Linux, not Windows XP, and I’d simply have expected it to be a bit snappier.
That said, a couple of extra seconds here or there definitely isn’t a deal breaker.
One other thing I did notice, and am hearing right now, is the whirr of the Eee PC’s fan.
Whirr, whirr, whirr, whiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrr.... At first the whirr wasn’t there, but after a while the machine heats up a little and the whirring is noticeable. In a busy, noisy environment, you won’t notice it, but when it’s quiet, it’s there.
Ah well, putting on some music or plugging some headphones into my ears solves that problem, but it’s a slight shame the fan couldn’t have been a bit quieter.
I also noticed the lack of a ‘notepad’ feature in Xandros Linux. As I write articles for a technology news website, I usually write them in Microsoft Word, and then copy and paste the article into Windows Notepad to remove all the formatting, so I can then copy and paste it into the content management system we use at iTWire.
But there’s no notepad to do that! It means I need to save the document as a plain text file and presumably open it up again and then try to copy and paste it.
It’s only a small thing, but I’d have expected a stock standard notepad to be there, even if I’m quite possibly the only person in the universe that might want this feature.
At least the Linux version does come with full copy of Open Office loaded as standard, although if I did buy the Windows XP version instead, I could easily download and install Open Office there too – it is free, after all.
I am still more used to Windows than Linux, but Xandros really is a remarkably good operating system, and it’s only when you try to find things that you’d expect in Windows and can’t find them that you are really reminded it’s not just plain ol’ Windows that you’re using.
So... the Asus Eee PC 900 is yet another winner for Asus. Can’t wait to see what they come up with next – and how they keep on improving the technology, including making multi-touch work across as many programs as possible, eventually making it as smooth as Apple’s implementation.
David Bass
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