{"id":136,"date":"2007-12-26T11:18:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T18:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2007-12-26T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:58:45","slug":"eeepc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/26\/eeepc\/","title":{"rendered":"eeePC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asus.com\/products.aspx?l1=24&#038;l2=0&#038;l3=0&#038;l4=0&#038;model=1907&#038;modelmenu=1\">Ultra Mini PC (UMPC)<\/a> for Christmas that I was hoping for.  <\/p>\n<p>It is even smaller and lighter than I expected &#8212; about the size of a thin hardback book (Not a Clancy book!).  It&#8217;s a full PC &#8212; in fact it would have been state-of-the-art 5 years ago or so, with a 900 MHz Intel Celeron Mobile chip, 512 MB of RAM and 4GB of (solid state) hard drive.  It comes loaded with a version of Linux, though you can install Windows XP if you want.  I don&#8217;t think I want to; there&#8217;s no need.<\/p>\n<p>The keyboard is a little small, and I have been making frequent typos as I write this, but the more I type the better I get.  I think with a little practice it will be quite comfortable to type on.  The screen is also a little small, but quite usable.<\/p>\n<p>The big advantage is the small size and weight.  I can throw this in my suitcase or backpack (almost in my pocket) and hardly know it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s marketed as an easy-to-use computer for kids or new users, but it has found a much broader appeal. <\/p>\n<p>If you need a very small, light, cheap computer for travel or whatever, you should consider this baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got the Ultra Mini PC (UMPC) for Christmas that I was hoping for. It is even smaller and lighter than I expected &#8212; about the size of a thin hardback book (Not a Clancy book!). It&#8217;s a full PC &#8212; in fact it would have been state-of-the-art 5 years ago or so, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}