{"id":237,"date":"2008-10-30T20:29:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T03:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriknovales.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/30\/the-eee-pc\/"},"modified":"2008-10-30T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T03:29:14","slug":"the-eee-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"The EEE PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently picked up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001GIPSAM?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theperbloofer-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001GIPSAM\">ASUS Eee PC 900HA<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;border-top-style: none! important;border-right-style: none! important;border-left-style: none! important;border-bottom-style: none! important\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theperbloofer-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001GIPSAM\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, after having seen and used one of the earlier EEEs when I visited my sister in September. I was pretty taken with the idea of having an inexpensive, lightweight PC. I&#8217;m actually writing this entry on it &#8212; touch typing on its smaller keyboard requires a little bit of an adjustment, but it&#8217;s still pretty feasible. So far I&#8217;m very impressed with its performance &#8212; I was expecting something more sluggish, but the apps I&#8217;ve used so far are running well.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to split the hard drive such that I can dual-boot Linux and Windows &#8212; the hard drive on this thing is definitely big enough to accommodate both. When that&#8217;s accomplished, I&#8217;ll hopefully have a nice, portable netbook for both travel and (very) light development work.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that remains to be seen is how well games will run on this thing. I&#8217;m not expecting to run graphics-intensive games, but if I can run some decent strategy or turn-based games on this, I&#8217;ll be very, very pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently picked up an ASUS Eee PC 900HA, after having seen and used one of the earlier EEEs when I visited my sister in September. I was pretty taken with the idea of having an inexpensive, lightweight PC. I&#8217;m actually writing this entry on it &#8212; touch typing on its smaller keyboard requires a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriknovales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}