Why Small is Beautiful | Linux Today

Why Small is Beautiful

Written By
GM
Glyn Mody
Mar 21, 2008

[ Thanks to Phillip Brown for this
link. ]

“It seems the $499 [US$449/€290] ultra-portable Asus Eee PC
can do no wrong. The size of a paperback, weighing less than a
kilogram, with built-in wi-fi and using flash memory instead of a
hard drive for storage, the Eee PC has been winning positive
comments not just from breathless reviewers but from ordinary
people who have bought it and loved it.

“In an online survey of 1000 users on the independent Eee PC
site eeeuser.com, about 4% were dissatisfied with their purchase,
33% found the system pretty much what they expected and 62% thought
it was better than they had hoped for…”


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