The EeePh Forum (Philippines) has their first EB last Saturday. One of the attendees reported the meeting in his blog, A Personal EeePC Education & Enlightenment Experiment -
Our little local users group of EeePC fanatics, a couple of dozen of us, mostly all complete strangers to one another, spent the afternoon and evening comparing notes, exchanging tips, showing off and generally getting to know each other. We only knew everyone from the faceless camaraderie of the postings in the user group forum at eeeph.com and the handles we went by...
We caused quite a stir in the mall, with 24 tiny Asus laptops crowding the little coffee tables. Where else can you see four computers all comfortably perched, with ample room for coffee cups, on a small circular surface that usually had room enough for only one regular-sized laptop? Heads turned the whole afternoon. Even the baristas were all questions, and refused to believe that the computers each cost less than a mid-range cellphone.
We spent five hours there, yakking away about everything, and leeching off the free mall wifi. Some industrious members took the opportunity to sell wares – leather cases, SD cards, USB sticks, RAM, external DVD drives, screen protectors, speakers, car chargers – which we all gleefully perused and cheerfully bought at great discounts .
People showed off their gear, their hardware and software modifications – our forum administrator and founder had an Eee PC with OS X on it, but he couldn’t make it. Some guys took out their tools and tinkered with things right there – a couple even exchanged keyboards and batteries, ending up with a white Eee PCwith a black keyboard and battery and vice versa.
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