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My Eee PC watches movies

Eeepc_5colors2_2Been exploring what I can do with my new Eee PC.  I've found that it plays movies in Quicktime or Windows Media Player just fine.  But this means I have to carry the movies with me.  How can I use the machine to watch movies without bothering to load them into its limited memory space?

Well, it has WiFi.  So I fired up Internet Explorer and went to my Netflix account.  I downloaded the Netflix movie player add-on (unfortunately it won't work with Firefox) and sure enough I can watch Netflix instant movies just fine!  This really makes the Eee an even more impressive media player.  Since the screen is small, the quality of the movies actually looks better than it does on my 24" monitor.  This machine is impressing me more and more - and for only $399.