Tom,
You have available one more UMPC where you are than we have in Norway.

That’s what I get for living in a third world country I guess.

It’ll be interesting to see if this device is made available here although even if it is you can bet it’ll cost a fortune.

it doesnt really matter how cheap it is if it lacks in true usefullness. essentially as it stands now, it’s actually an *over-priced* toy.

i really dont expect much, but AT LEAST for a little more money put in a larger screen, more storage, better CPU (with speed-stepping).

Well, I’m not saying you CAN’T use 10 fingers. But now that I think about it, I’m probably using 8. I use my left pinkie for shift/ctrl/fn/alt, and my right thumb for space bar.

That sounds good about the keyboard, any smaller and it would probably be difficult.

BTW, to me touch typing = using 10 fingers.

Hey guys,

I can easily touch type on the Eee PC with 6 fingers (I never had much use for my pinkies anyway). After using it for most of the day yesterday, I find my regular laptop keyboard to be enormous. It’s almost like I have to stretch to hit all the right keys.

Mike, I won’t know for sure until Monday, but I think the EEE keyboard is slightly larger than the Vye’s or the P1610’s. It certainly shouldn’t be smaller and I can touch-type on the Vye. Not all day, but…

WTF? Are you using the Eee’s keyboard itself or have you plugged in a larger external one. I’d be interested in what your hands are like after typing so much into the Eee!

I don’t have a video of unboxing but I am typing this comment on my EEE. My local Microcenter received a whooping 2 of these so I snagged the first one. It’s an awesome little device. I’m doing Nanowrimo (www.nanowrimo.org) on it this month but come December I plan to see what I can do with different OS’ and see what functionality I can add to it.

I’ve been following your blog for a few months, and you guys are very lucky to have access to all these UMPC goodies. The only UMPC available to us in South Africa is the Aus R2H. I phoned Asus today about the Asus eee PC, and it’s been available to us in the country since yesterday 1 Nov, but no suppliers are stocking it. Our largest supplier will only start stocking it in Jan 2008. That’s what you get for living in a third world country I guess. Keep up the good work.

Another vid:

http://blip.tv/file/456849