Posted 11/20/2008 at 08:44:28pm

I bought one from Best Buy, liking the fact that it had a full gig of memory and an Atom. The linux version ships with a customized Xandros distribution, which I've never messed with before, but it uses the venerable apt package-manager under the dumbed-down interface. As soon as you connect this thing to the Net, though, it starts downloading updates and suggested installations, eating up most of the already tiny free drive space on the SSD. Out of the box, and even after resetting, it is 95.37% full, leaving 178 Megs free! It is unacceptable to have no space on the drive when you don't have a spell-checker in the word-processor installed (did I mention that?) Good hardware on the box, but I think the team who customized the OS needs to be shot.

For what it's worth, ASUS tech support has actual English-speaking techs if you call them, but my first try got a guy who wasn't that familiar with the EEE's.