While the school children will no doubt have a blast, we imagine the elderly would have problems with the small keys and screen. Either way, ASUS plans to release an EeePC with Windows XP Home installed in the future.ĪSUS has pitched the EeePC primarily at first PC users, in particular drawing attention to school children and the elderly. Xandros signed a "broad collaboration agreement" with Microsoft in June, of which the public details are very vague - so presumably this is part of it or Microsoft's lawyers must be getting really itchy trigger fingers by now. The GUI is built on Xandros (a distribution of Linux), with the application skins appearing to be taken wholesale from Windows XP's silver "Luna" theme. The only real design SNAFU is that the built-in microphone is situated under the laptop, meaning you'll either need to pick up the notebook or lower yourself to desk level to register your voice at a decent volume, resigning users to the external microphone port for decent results. The trackpad is just as comfortable as its bigger cousins, but can sometimes be hard to tap-click and the scroll region is tiny, making it quite difficult to activate, and the configuration tool doesn't allow you to change this. ![]() In terms of input the keys are quite tiny, which could cause problems for adults using it for extended periods of time.
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