There's something slightly loose in my Pearl 4G Eee keyboard, but only because, in the year that I've had it, I must have dropped this stubbornly resilient package of Asus engineering over 30 times, sometimes from pretty high up from the floor. But everything still works on tnis machine - I don't have a choice in the matter.
What more can I say about it, than talking about the obvious ease-of-use of a completely portable Web and Email tool, that has already been mentioned before me.
I've used it on trips, always connecting to the Motel/Hotel's Wireless connection successfully. (sometimes you have to tweak with the network connections a little bit in rare cases with certain wireless networks, but you will always end up getting it working)
I've used it from my bedroom to watch youtube playlists ( using my wireless at home ), to coax me to sleep.
Lately, it served me in a HUGE way: My desktop had been conquered by some stubborn malware that caused my browser to go to spam-filled sites.
I didn't even want to physically connect my desktop to the Internet, so I pulled my cable, and due to the Eee having a convenient Network port, in goes the cable, and I can safely surf for solutions on my Eee, on how best to resolve my desktop virus issues (ended up buying a new hard drive for my desktop and reinstalling the O.S., which was fine).
Here's a tip: Try not to store files on the Eee (at least the linux-based Eee's) that you deem very risky to lose. (This is not related to the above thing out my desktop, this is another topic). Keep them on USB Flash drives. Sometimes, it's just kind of easy to hose the entire Eee's Xandros Linux installation after trying out someone's tip on a discussion board. (there's a ridiculously easy Restore feature that gets back all your software in about a minute flat, if it gets messed up and non-functional)
(another tip: on your desktop, install Apache, and assuming you also have a wireless router, you can just play/view/open files that are physically on your desktop, but access on your Eee while on the couch )
The key purpose for the Eee - at least in my view - is to serve as a reliable ultra-mobile and lightweight provider of Internet. And it does that extremely well and reliably. (I repeated the word "reliable" in an ungrammatical way, I know.)
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