[Vimoutliner] biking with a notebook

[Henrik Holst]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:16:04AM +0100, Lucas González wrote:
> > could get a new eeePC-style notebook with a solid-state disk.
> 
> I've been looking at netbooks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook and
> I'm not sure I can add vim + vimoutliner + python/perl.  Any
> experiences on this?  Any other factors to consider?
> 
> I tried the keyboard at the shop, with perhaps 5 lines of typing in
> all, and I didn't know my fingers were so big, but I was standing and
> maybe sitting is a better position to type.

(As we are on the subject...)

Which model did you try? The later modells (1000 model) claims to have a
"92% size keyboard"
http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/asus_10inch_eee_1000official.php

I did find some evidence that the 900 series has the small keyboard too
http://www.absolutegadget.com/200807111466/reviews/mobile-computing/long-term-review-asus-eee-pc-900.html
 
> Being able to have room in the screen is good too, 10" better than 7" IMO.

I mostly use fullscreen applications and make good use of many desktops.
However, there are some lower bound and I think that 800×480 falls right
below that. My personal feeling is that 1024 horizontal pixels is what
you need to be able to read PDF files on the display.

That said, I am thinking of buying a ASUS EEE 1000 with Linux:
http://asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=164&l3=0&l4=0&model=2284&modelmenu=1
(They recommend Vista by some weird reason, cant imagine why...)

Are there anyone out there who had tried it yet?  The display and the
keyboard are my two biggest concerns. Also the speed of the SSD drive
can be an issue for me, if its much slower than a normal laptop disk.

> Lucas
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