Asus EEE PC

[Nick Stockton]

Hey just so you know, the MSI Wind's keyboard has the rite shift key in the 
correct place above the up arrow key.

Nick Stockton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Asus EEE PC


> Hi. I have the Asus EEE PC1000HA which has a ten inch screen. The keyboard 
> is excellent for my big fingers. It's about 95 percent of full size. The 
> only drawback to the keyboard on these models is the right-shift and up 
> arrow keys are in such a position that unless you reach further out with 
> your right pinky, you may press up arrow instead of right shift. 
> Considering there are work-arounds for such a small annoyance, I ended up 
> with this one. I went through about 3 netbooks before settling on this 
> one. They all have about the same strengths and weaknesses in terms of 
> specifications, speed, portability and features. So what it comes down to 
> for me is the keyboard. In fact, I am typing on it right now as I write 
> this message. I'll do a spell check now.
>
> OK, so it stopped on the word considering, oops, but that was a personal 
> typo, not a keyboard typo.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheryl Homiak wrote the following on 2/14/2009 2:29 PM:
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm looking at Asus EEE Pcs and had a question for which I haven't found 
>> an answer. I know there are different models but what I'm concerned about 
>> is: what kind of keyboard does it have if it's so small or does it come 
>> with a keyboard we can use? For instance, my cell phone has a qwerty 
>> keyboard that I can use but is painfully slow for me to type on since 
>> I've never gotten good at the thumbs trick so I'm concerned as to whether 
>> I'd manage ok with an eee pc. I imagine if you get one with bluetooth it 
>> wouldn't matter because you could use a separate keyboard but of course 
>> that immediately means carryint around one more thing. I didn't really 
>> find anything about how one keys in though I did see something about an 
>> onscreen keyboard which I'm assuming wouldn't be very accessible for us 
>> out of the box.
>>
>>
>
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