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Last Sunday I managed to track down an Asus eee. There’s been a lot of hype about these little laptops with their 7″ screens. I was all prepared to starting writing a review of how useful mine’s been when… it’s stopped working.

Well, that’s not strictly true. It still works. It’s just that the left mouse button, which is on a kind of rocker switch beneath the trackpad, has stopped working. If I plug in a USB mouse it works fine - but that’s not the point, is it?

So it will be going back tomorrow. It would seem I’m not the only one with this problem. Something to do with leaving it running and overheating. Me? Using a laptop too much? Shurely not…

Update: After 45 minutes in Toys ‘R’ Us (yes, that’s where I bought it from - nowhere else had any in stock!) I got a replacement. The only one they had left was the display model. I took it as it’s in good condition and actually the 701 model. This means that it’s easier to overclock and upgrade! Oh, and I also managed to wangle a £10 gift voucher.

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Doug Belshaw

on 6 June 2008

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Darren Draper of the excellent Drape’s Takes reminded me via a tweet that I have a Disqus account:

It looks to be a great system, and what I was really looking for instead of my ill-fated bbPress-powered forum linked to this blog. Disqus not only makes comments more user-friendly, but they can be automatically aggregated by FriendFeed and Google Reader. Visitors can also make video comments via Seesmic.

Leave me a short comment to tell me what you think!