Hi. I have the Asus EEE PC1000HA which has a ten inch screen. The keyboard is excellent for my big fingers. It's about 95 percent of full size. The only drawback to the keyboard on these models is the right-shift and up arrow keys are in such a position that unless you reach further out with your right pinky, you may press up arrow instead of right shift. Considering there are work-arounds for such a small annoyance, I ended up with this one. I went through about 3 netbooks before settling on this one. They all have about the same strengths and weaknesses in terms of specifications, speed, portability and features. So what it comes down to for me is the keyboard. In fact, I am typing on it right now as I write this message. I'll do a spell check now. OK, so it stopped on the word considering, oops, but that was a personal typo, not a keyboard typo. Hope this helps. Cheryl Homiak wrote the following on 2/14/2009 2:29 PM: > > Hi all. > > I'm looking at Asus EEE Pcs and had a question for which I haven't found > an answer. I know there are different models but what I'm concerned > about is: what kind of keyboard does it have if it's so small or does it > come with a keyboard we can use? For instance, my cell phone has a > qwerty keyboard that I can use but is painfully slow for me to type on > since I've never gotten good at the thumbs trick so I'm concerned as to > whether I'd manage ok with an eee pc. I imagine if you get one with > bluetooth it wouldn't matter because you could use a separate keyboard > but of course that immediately means carryint around one more thing. I > didn't really find anything about how one keys in though I did see > something about an onscreen keyboard which I'm assuming wouldn't be very > accessible for us out of the box. > > -- Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net
