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Hello all netbook users,
I thought I would start a thread to find out what uses people are putting their netbooks to.
Here is my contribution
* Portable internet radio (useful when pottering around the house, i.e. painting etc)
(using eeepc1000H running cruncheee 8.10.01rc)
Cheers
i bought an eee900 for my son, mostly intended for schoolwork and such.. he mostly use it for youtube tho.. 
my wife/gf use it ALOT for general surfing..totally abandoning her vista-infected hp pavillion tx1020..
it still sports the default xandros, but CB is very soon going to be installed 
browsing the web, learning linux, watching movie on the train, taking notes at the university
majority of the stuff i do at uni. Includes :-
- coding
- executing that code
- taking notes
- surfin the internets
- learning linux
tbh its my main pc these days, it comes with me everywhere... even around my house.
Using an eee 1000h (yes the one that came with windows and a HD), works perfectly with cruncheee
It's my laptop, I do as I do on my main PC with it. 800x480 isn't that restrictive when you get used to it 
(Eee 701 4Gb)
I bought ours for my wife, and she's currently resisting all attempts to put #! on it as our printer only works under windows....
So, basically, my lovely shiny new Inspiron Mini 9 is being used as a print server 
Like Nik_Doof is my laptop, I use my AAO for everything. The other laptop is just my desktop replacer at home.
my wife/gf
you sly dog, how'd you wrangle that?
it's become my main computer as well. I'm able to do everything on it I used my old laptop for.
edit: I've got a mini 9
Last edited by iggykoopa (2009-01-18 20:41:33)
I have an eeePC 701 which I actually got from work :-) We have over 30 of them at our school.
I use it with my 'Three' 3G dongle to get online anywhere. It's mainly used to view the web, update twitter etc.
I have used it with stickam.com and Skype to broadcast to my friends from around the house.
It also make a great video player on the plane or train. It's battery life is great.
I use eeebuntu NBR on it. I will be putting CrunchBang on my old laptop though.
my eee pc 1000 is used with a USB->serial adaptor to control a Ten Tec RX320 receiver or Argonaut V transceiver for PSK31 operation - the long run time w/the Atom CPU and 6600MAh battery provides for a full afternoon when operating portable in the field - lots of fun!
Interesting to see that the netbooks are being used as desktop replacement. Initially, I only used my netbook for the 'netbook type tasks'.
Now my Mac is sitting rather redundant...
papparonny wrote:my wife/gf
you sly dog, how'd you wrangle that?
my gf uses the eee when my wife is away ..no just kidding..hahaha...well im technically not married, but in reality i am.. together for 17th year
I use mine for all kinds of things that one would do with a "normal" laptop, and even though it is not my main notebook, it is especially handy with putty/rdesktop and EVDO modem to throw it in the glove compartment and be able to connect to any of the servers at work from pretty much wherever I am. Reading eBooks is something else I use it quite often for, but I still have to figure out how I can do that the same way as I have set it up in windows, with the screen and touchpad rotated by 90 degrees so it can be held and read like a regular book...
--zaxxon
have you looked into useing fbreader to do your book reading? it supports screen rotation. If you have an app you need to use for reading that doesn't support rotation you can look into this http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/pygtk-rotate/ .
I bought my AA1 to keep me and the mrs on talking terms
The rubbish TV programs she watches used to make me wander upstairs onto my desktop. At least now I can sit with her, the only downside is I have to listen to Big Brother. Not watch, listen
I'm using my Eee for notes, learning linux, occasional gaming and watching movies when I'm travelling... I'd like to use it when I'm doing fieldwork and have to download data from various data loggers, but I don't know enough about linux yet for it being an alternative to pen and paper
I have Eee 900 and I use it for everything...email, 'net surfing, irc, etc.
ggordon
Hi,
I bought my eeepc to use it when I travel, since i'm regularly spending time in airports and planes. I have another laptop (15''4 screen), with now about 15 minutes of autonomy on battery, so it only stays at home on sector.
These days, I use the netbook a lot at home, to discover linux mainly. Finally I'm getting used to it, web pages even appear to be too large when I get back to my bigger laptop.
I also want to make it ready for development (I have a vector graphics development project already started in SVG+Javascript, and I also want to create a small website). I think I won't do image processing on the netbook, I tried Gimp and the screen is really too small.
To sum up, the netbook seems to be powerful enough for any use, the only serious limit is the screen size.
I still have my Asus EEE PC 701 with me. I use it for surfing, blogging, IMing, watching videos, syncing to my iPod Touch, making documents, and more, more stuff!
I bought my eee901 because my current "main" laptop weighs more than all the moons of Jupiter put together, and has, in the words of Strong Bad - "an impressive battery life of one half of 10 minutes". Ok, maybe I exaggerate slightly, but you get my point.
I mostly use if for web browsing, learning python and linux, and keeping my IM/webcam conversations going with my gf without being forced to stay in my room all the time. So far, it's proved to be the best self-indulgent purchase I've made in a long while
The main use of my Aspire One is during travel. I do not hesitate to throw it in my car or take it with me on extended motorcycle rides. Of course it's also used around the house but I already have 2 desktops and a full size laptop so it's not used as my main computer.
I use my AA1 as my main laptop, and now my "old" and heavy one is sitting behind the TV acting as a media player + P2P server + music streaming to the other laptops (including my AA1)
The things that I do are mainly surfing the internet, email, note taking and reading while on the go. It also supports my Novatel Ovation 3G USB modem, giving me full connectivity everywhere.
I even use it when I work from home, accessing the CISCO VPN with network manager and OpenOffice.
The keyboard is perfect for me. Although it would be better to have a bigger screen, I can deal with it most of the times.
Last edited by rofranco (2009-03-08 18:35:52)
Huzzah, my wife is no longer using our Inspiron Mini 9 as a printer server and is using it as a netbook!!
I use my Eee 901 more and more lately (#! a big part of that!). Primarily I use it to ssh/scp to different servers, but also web browsing/mail, IM, IRC, watching video, playing World of Goo, unloading images from my digital camera and phone, taking notes, customizing... almost everything I use a computer for on a casual level. It's great to quickly show stuff, local or online, when normally it would be too much to access a desktop/workstation.
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