Asus EEE PC

[Raul A. Gallegos]

Hi yep I know. I went through the ACER, MSI, HP, and finally settled on 
the Asus. What I don't like about the MSI is that the comma, period, and 
slash keys are too narrow. Also, although it's fixable, the fn and 
control keys are reversed.

Thanks.

Nick Stockton said the following on 2/14/2009 9:48 PM:
> 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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