We have two of the mini-netbooks here at our house, one for James (a Dell), and one for Nora (an Asus Eee-PC). They both run just fine, and better yet, run on good ol' solid XP.
I'm a Mac person through and through, and I have never had trouble doing any basic computing stuff on the netbooks. There's a little bit of single-instead-of-double-clicking, and hunting around for menus, but there has been such a convergence in user interface that it really shouldn't be a deal-breaker.
It sounds like you would mostly be using it for work (XP being A-OK for that), and if most of the other stuff you want to do on it is Web-based (I'm guessing?), you'll really not notice a big difference - browsers being practically identical.
The big complaint I've heard from my family is that the keyboards are still a little bit overly-cramped (though in this regard the Dell is better than the Asus - different layout). But cheap, and little! :)
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Date: 2009-03-02 08:27 pm (UTC)I'm a Mac person through and through, and I have never had trouble doing any basic computing stuff on the netbooks. There's a little bit of single-instead-of-double-clicking, and hunting around for menus, but there has been such a convergence in user interface that it really shouldn't be a deal-breaker.
It sounds like you would mostly be using it for work (XP being A-OK for that), and if most of the other stuff you want to do on it is Web-based (I'm guessing?), you'll really not notice a big difference - browsers being practically identical.
The big complaint I've heard from my family is that the keyboards are still a little bit overly-cramped (though in this regard the Dell is better than the Asus - different layout). But cheap, and little! :)