I bought an Eee PC 4G (701) last month and had been playing and using it. It is quite a lovely machine.
I have also installed Ubuntu 7.10 on it, and have been able to make all peripherals (except the modem) to work properly. There are a lot of good r…

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Interesting about the Cloudbook preference. Obviously there are good and bad about both machines and it ultimately comes down to one’s individual preference and what works for one. That goes for OS as well. However, with the Eee 900 having a bigger screen and higher resolution, it seems that the only thing the Cloudbook then has is the hard drive which, for most uses of these machines, is not really that much of a deciding factor. Having weighed the comments pro and con and having used Open Office and Firefox in a Windows environment, I, for one, am leaning to the Eee with Linux as it appears to have everything necessary to hit the road running just need the 900 to come out.

Keep us posted and keep up the good work.

Brought the Cloudbook since it had just arrived when I was about to leave. Really got a good feel for the device, and was able to figure out what I liked about it more than the Eee PC and vice versa. Here’s the reality: the Eee PC is SO MUCH faster. The Cloudbook seems to crawl. But, the 1000×600 resolution mode with Windows XP on the Cloudbook (that comes with the default driver) is SO MUCH BETTER for usability. It looks perfect, and I can’t go back to the Eee PC’s resolution. As it is now, I’m favoring the Cloudbook, but if I can get 1000×600 working on the Eee as good as on the Cloudbook, I’d be favoring the Eee again. I saw stuff on the forums about this resolution mode, but I couldn’t get it working right away.

It is also nice to have the big hard drive on the Cloudbook, except for the fact that video playback can be choppy if the videos are in too high of a resolution, so I don’t really need all the space. One other thing on the Cloudbook- the battery meter actually works and reports the time left, unlike my Eee PC. Little things, but important to me. I’ll have a more thorough comparison as soon as possible. My todo list is a nightmare

-Ant

I was wondering about the lack of updates.