Why not try the OLPC XO-1 instead?

Elliot,

I thought about this but, I just don’t have a warm fuzzy about this laptop.

Ellen

Hi Ellen,

You might be interested to know I have started a tutorial series for the Asus Eee PC for computer novices and Windows user. I have just started it so you might find the first few posts too elementary. But I hope to go all the way and include Linux command lines and other stuff as the tutorial progresses. Link for the first tutorial is http://asuseeehacks.blogspot.com/2007/11/asus-eee-pc-user-interface-tour.html

I have to admit it I thought of writing the tutorial after reading the email replies and comments regarding my link to your post. It occurred to me then that there are a lot of long-time Windows users who may not be familiar with the Linux/UNIX approach, particularly getting things done via the command line. After all, the desktop graphical user interface has been around for more than 20 years now.

Hopefully the tutorial would help.

Regards.

I was at the site last night and I can tell you yes it does help! Thanks so much. Due to your site I was able to apply a start menu to the Eee PC in the easy mode.

Ellen

You might be interested to know I have started a tutorial series for the Asus Eee PC for computer novices and Windows user. I have just started it so you might find the first few posts too elementary. But I hope to go all the way and include Linux command lines and other stuff as the tutorial progresses. Link for the first tutorial is http://asuseeehacks.blogspot.com/2007/11/asus-eee-pc-user-interface-tour.html

I have to admit it I thought of writing the tutorial after reading the email replies and comments regarding my link to your post. It occurred to me then that there are a lot of long-time Windows users who may not be familiar with the Linux/UNIX approach, particularly getting things done via the command line. After all, the desktop graphical user interface has been around for more than 20 years now.

Hopefully the tutorial would help.

Regards.

Actually, you can install additional software on the Asus Eee PC. You can refer to this post – http://asuseeehacks.blogspot.com/2007/11/installing-unsupported-applications.html. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the link, and I will continue to visit your site. Lots of good info.

Ellen

After I pick up my Eee PC I think I’ll hand it to my oldest daughter and see what she things of it. She uses OpenOffice for school, and tends to play a lot of online web-based games. It should be interesting.

Pete,

I think she will like it. Let me know.

Ellen