frychiko
Member
From: Japan
Registered: 2008-01-10
Posts: 22
Quick question: has anyone got an Asus EEE PC and can it be used well enough for reviewing on this site? There was a discussion about this before but that ended in January and there was no feedback regarding this.
cheers!
dilandau23
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From: Japan
Registered: 2006-09-13
Posts: 330
I have the JP version with Windows pre-installed and use Firefox. At the default 800x480 resolution in full screen mode, a full review card and the buttons just barely fit on screen. There is a very easy fix to scale higher resolutions to fit to the screen. At scaled 1000x600 the card and buttons fit on screen when not in full screen mode but again just barely. In full screen mode almost the whole page fits at that resolution.
The machine is the best designed computer I have ever owned. It is ten times better than I imagined it could be. It is the perfect balance of power vs portability. You would not want to make one your only computer though. I use it while on all forms of mass transit as it is. Battery life blows my HP Pavilion zd8000 series out of the water, no real surprise there. I use it at work with a full size keyboard, mouse, and lcd attached and it runs faster than a lot of the teachers laptops around me, but you have to understand there are some real laptop dinosaurs here. If I had to say anything bad about it, I would say the screen should have had a bit higher native resolution but I have adjusted and no built in bluetooth is just silly. Check out the site eeeuser.com for more info than you can imagine. In particular the forum and wiki are very useful. I am now considering EMOBILE's D02HW to eat my cake too.
frychiko
Member
From: Japan
Registered: 2008-01-10
Posts: 22
Thanks for your information dilandau23 very helpful. I think I might just go ahead and get one, heck I can sell it on Yahoo auction if need be. Glad to hear everything just fits on screen. I've been checking out eeeuser.com for a while now.
As for the D02HW, yeah that one seems pretty interesting, seems to be on campaign everywhere right now when you buy a laptop.
amthomas
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From: Japan
Registered: 2006-06-22
Posts: 104
I also have a eeePC that I use to review RevTK with sometimes. I bought mine with an English version of the OS because I'm the only one in my household that can read Japanese... but, if you're decent with computers, you should be able to install SCIM-anthy on it, which is basically a linux version of the Windows IME language bar thing. SCIM came installed on mine (for switching between European languages), but anthy is the way to go for inputting Japanese text.
I seem to recall the eeePC forums had some decent posts about installing Japanese input, so if you wade through all the garbage posts until you find one that talks about SCIM-anthy, then you should be good. AH hell... <greps the internet a bit> Here's the post:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=33458#p33458
follow his instructions (I think they are pretty noob-friendly, for those who don't heart teh linux), and you should be good. You want to use the "anthy" package for SCIM because it *doesn't* suck. It pretty perfectly mimicks the way that Japanese windows lets you type... you can switch Jgo input on and off with quick key combos, and you can type a whole sentence out before you decide to change the kana to kanji.
Some of the other SCIM packages are total ass and make you change kana to kanji before you move on to a new word, which is *incredibly* frustrating, time consuming, and not at all how Real Live Japanese People (TM) type in their language. I think you can also turn on kana touch typing (so that you don't type in romaji), but with an english keyboard you'd need to memorize where the kana keys were located. *shrug*
Anyway, I've installed Jgo support successfully (actually, twice, due to a complication with a different program install job that I horrifically botched), so feel free to send questions my way.
-ang
