My co-worker picked up an ASUS Eee very similar to yours (I don't know if it is the exact same model), and I do have to admit that there were certain feelings of jealousy on my part.
I think for most of what I do it may not cut the mustard (compiling and sometimes art), but I think for anybody that wants nice portable 'net access and/or does a lot of writing and research, that would be a great thing. That being said, I think I'd still like one... but I'm still saving for the wedding.
The neat thing about using netbooks to read ebooks is that the Intel graphics driver allows you to rotate the screen display to portrait mode with hotkeys, so you can get full book pages onscreen. (The options are in the menus when you right-click the tray icon for the Intel driver.) So, hotkey-rotate the screen, fullscreen the reader program, and you come pretty close to a Kindle but without the greyscale one-trick-pony aspects. I prefer having the display on the right with the keyboard on the left, but to each their own.
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I think for most of what I do it may not cut the mustard (compiling and sometimes art), but I think for anybody that wants nice portable 'net access and/or does a lot of writing and research, that would be a great thing. That being said, I think I'd still like one... but I'm still saving for the wedding.
I hope it treats you well!
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