dmd platform support - poll

[John Reimer]

Hello Andrei,

> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 
>>> Got to say, Linux's #1 drawback is lack of solid wireless support.
>>> It can get very, very unnerving. Particularly because of the
>>> chicken-and-egg thing: you install Linux and you want to get the
>>> wifi working, but you can't download the appropriate driver because
>>> you can't connect. Then the default network-manager is really
>>> crappy. My Linux experience improved considerably when I found a
>>> drop-in replacement called wicd (http://wicd.sf.net).
>>> 
>> My router burned out this morning (nice smell of ozone), and when I
>> went to the nerd store to get another, my eee pc was there on sale
>> for $249, $100 less than I paid for it. The sign on it says "last
>> one".
>> 
> IMHO people noticed 10'' is the perfect keyboard access/portability
> combination, so 9'' fell sharply out of favor.
> 
> Andrei
> 


I'd say it was the small screen more than the keyboard (which they made larger 
in the next asus eee release).  But, I think the reason really is that ASUS 
lost out to all the other better options that flooded the market after their 
initial release.  It's true that most of these probably had a larger keyboard 
as well, though.  But they also had a larger screen, more memory, and much 
more hard drive space. :)

-JJR