My Asus EEE PC

Finally, the long wait paid off. It was the first day at work after Hajj Holiday and when I reached office at the ground floor– few Malaysian colleagues of mine telling me that there’s a box awaited me at the reception. I knew this would be the day!
My Asus EEE PC finally arrived in Riyadh — I think it would be the first Asus EEE PC 8G in Saudi Arabia as I was told it was just released sometimes early this month in Taiwan!!

So I opened up the box, put the battery on , and press the start switch , as mentioned in few reviews (one here) the boot up time was amazingly fast — maybe my Nokia E90 startup time is much longer than this! Nothing much I can say about the default software bundled with the laptop, Xandros hmm.. — immediately I did my research on which version of Linux would be the best candidate for this machine.

Anyway to cut it short that evening at home — using the guide here , my EEEPC was converted to Ubuntu- I first thought of having a lighter version of Xubuntu but later found that Ubuntu performed quite well with the current specs. ( I got the Ubuntu ISO downloaded last week!)

The only thing I hate about this machine is the keyboard was cramped – the button was to small compared to my huge fingers! But my typing is improving now just need few days of practices .. I hope!

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