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The last time I got an ultra portable laptop it was a Fujitsu Lifebook.  At the time there was nothing like it.. a tiny laptop with 6 hours of battery life and a DVD/CDR drive.  Over the years it served as a network auditing machine, a firewall, a router, a wireless access point, a war driving box, and a general purpose web browsing laptop.  Unfortunately the time has come to replace it.  Not because it is broken, but because it’s just too slow to handle firefox.

Looking for a replacement/general web surfin’ laptop I decided to buy an asus eee 1000h.  Newegg had a $100 price drop and I pulled the trigger.  I just got it today and I’ve got to tell you its like deja vu.

The eee has a pretty big following, mainly with ubuntu (eh.) and debian users.  I decided to go with ubuntu just because someone had gone through all the work to make a specific kernel for it.

Installation of Ubuntu:

1. I followed these steps
2. To get the fn keys to work I used elmurato’s script found here
3. To test out the webcam I used “Cheese”  sudo apt-get install cheese
4. oh yeah! the way volume is controlled is a little weird, right click on your volume control, set the master to 100%, then right click on the volume control select preferences and select “front”…. then you will be controlling the front audio channel only (which is the speakers).

I’m pretty happy with it so far, it has nearly the same keyboard as my old lifebook, its decently speedy, I can mount smb shares to my NAS… it’s awesome.

Oh yeah, and whomever complains about the gloss finish leaving fingerprints or the right shift key needs to shut it… its $450..