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It's just their size. I"m a classroom teacher and I wanted to try it out in my class.My students love it. The games on it are great and it has the word processing that I want my students to be able to do.
and the penguin racer is fine. like the solitaire games will SOMETIMES tell me if there is no chance of winning. potato guy is pointless, unless my 2 year old niece wants a giggle:)also the screen size can be irritating, because you pretty much have to scroll online for everything.pretty much though, i love it for it's cute color [i got pink]. i do have my dislikes though, which are pretty much the same complaints as everyone else's. i'd recommend this to anyone who isn't a computer nerd and needs it for anything but the internet. and the frozen bubble SOMETIMES doesn't play the music all static-y.
and the convenience of online usage and game fun. i'm actually on my cute lil asus now, and it's really great to just carry around. like the keys are pretty small, even for me, and i have teenie fingers, lol [size 5 ring size, lol].i also have issues with the games sometimes. it's just nearly impossible to beat, and i think that's why i hate it, lol.
The Eee 2G Surf is very cute and can get on the internet without a problem, You won't be able to play any Pogo games on it and the DIVX movies are a little jurky, I found expanding the movie screen to full screen got the video and audio out of sinc and drove me crazy but leaving it and just expanding the player was best.
Painfully slow. It's a nice color. It's not really feasible to reread your work on a monitor this size, and editing is so key for improving your writing. And if anything goes wrong, good luck fixing it, linux is still for techies, and completely unapologetic for the non technical crowd. Awful linux interface. It is relatively stable (but when it crashes it goes down hard).
Forget web surfing. It IS light, you won't even notice it in your backpack. What you save in cash you pay for in frustration. Keys that trip you up and cause you to delete whole sentences in a single slip (thank god for undo).
Writing is hard enough.As soon as a I can, I'm going to sell this thing, sell my imac, and get a macbook pro. When it works, it connects to the internet reasonably fast, and I can use google docs to write stories. Unimpressive battery life leaves you tethered to an outlet. But the experience sucks.
Tiny screen. A year ago I bought this computer to write with, and my experience with it has taught me the value of not skimping on things like screen size, keyboard size, and mousepad size. Installing software feels like you're hacking the system. But its painful to use this thing.
Yes its a 300 dollar laptop. Tiny postage stamp of a mouse pad. Yes I still use this thing, so it can't be that bad.
Some things like the small keyboard are not obvious from the web - borrow someone else's or buy it from someone with an extended return policy. Only to discover Amazon won't let me sell it used on Amazon. I kept trying to work around but finally gave up. So Don't Buy It If You Are Not Sure You Will Want To Keep It. I bought this nearly a year ago, figuring something small and portable might be useful for taking notes and jotting down ideas when travelling. Unfortunately the keyboard is much too small. Apparently they only let "specially approved" dealers sell some things.
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