On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Denis Wee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2008 11:33 am, Jean Jordaan wrote: >> >> Well, the EeePC does not allow you to >> >> get into command line mode, at least I don't know how to. >> >> ctrl-alt-t (or ctrl-shift, can remember now) > > Yes, ctrl-alt-t gets you a shell console. Thanks. Wonder why they do > not say this in the manual. > >> >> the 398 is stock clearance price, rather than promotion price, >> because the new model (798) is soooo much nicer > > I can do without the "soooo much nicer" and save the extra $400. Well, I have bought one EeePC701 only several days after it first faced the market last year. I found it did a good job in surfing the web, skype talking, and so on. Even I installed a developer's package (build-essential) on it and sometimes wrote programs on it.
As far as I can say, 701 is fit enough to my usage. Some tips might be useful to you: A hacker in Taiwan have developed Lazyeeepc package which I have been using and is very good: http://www.xepc.org/ (Chinese) http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ (English) -- Denis Cheng _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
