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I like my Eee. It's got its quirks (both good and bad) but on the whole I'm happy with it.  Still, whether you like this laptop or not is wholly based on what you want it for and where you're going to use it.  Just because I like it doesn't mean you will!

Out-of-the-box it's a little too basic for me (that's when it's in 'Easy Mode') so it's a good job there's the 'Full Desktop (Advanced) Mode'.  The trouble is the 'full' mode isn't an easy thing to switch to, at least not for the first time.  In fact, out-of-the-box there's not a great deal you can change but I guess that's the idea.

Fortunately there's an excellent resource out there that does what the manufacturer ASUS ought to, and more: Eee User

If it wasn't for Eee User I wouldn't be able to use Opera, watch a whole bunch of videos, hook up my phone as a modem nor get Adobe Reader and Firefox working again!

I haven't really gone in to the details of what I've used the Eee for and why I like it, I'll try to go other these things soon.  The thing is, there's plenty of stuff out there already about this dinky laptop and I don't want to go over much covered ground.  A couple of things I will say now though are that video playback is great on the device.  It doesn't struggle with DivX and once you figure out how-to, it does a good job of "ipod" video (H.264 MP4).  I've even managed to playback some HD stuff from Apple and although it struggles it does make a fairly good attempt at playback (not really watchable though!)