Asus Eee PC

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Asus Eee PC, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Low screen resolution makes it nearly unusable with most Linux desktop environments2025-03-08
Right shift key is small and misplaced, so touch typists hit the up-arrow instead2011-07-04
Trackpad is terrible, Chrome runs slowly, and pages with Flash hang the machine2011-06-11
Right shift placed badly, and keys randomly ignore input presses2010-04-23
7-inch screen and keyboard at 92% size were hard to use2010-01-26
Windows XP runs so slowly on the netbook it is unusable2010-01-26
Gimp is missing from default repos, so users find installing needed software hard2009-01-06