http://www.shrubbloggers.com/2009/07/02/size-matters/ Justin M. Stoddard and Eric D. Dixon Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:52:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://www.shrubbloggers.com/2009/07/02/size-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-596 DavidMBrowndotcom Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:22:25 +0000 http://www.shrubbloggers.com/?p=1590#comment-596 I was an early adopter, buying the Asus eee 701, and after the novelty wore off the 701 _was_ a bit too small and under-equipped. Still, this early netbook remains serviceable enough for surfing, email and text docs on the go, and lighter than its sequels. In any case, the Asus eee 1000HE netbook with XP OS is fine. There have been smaller laptops before the eee and competitors, only not so cheap. I waited for years for these developments and of course the youngsters will just take the tech for granted, dadblame 'em... The stories I could tell...used to be, you had to use a crank to get your manual typewriter started... I was an early adopter, buying the Asus eee 701, and after the novelty wore off the 701 _was_ a bit too small and under-equipped. Still, this early netbook remains serviceable enough for surfing, email and text docs on the go, and lighter than its sequels. In any case, the Asus eee 1000HE netbook with XP OS is fine. There have been smaller laptops before the eee and competitors, only not so cheap. I waited for years for these developments and of course the youngsters will just take the tech for granted, dadblame ‘em… The stories I could tell…used to be, you had to use a crank to get your manual typewriter started…

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