ASUS EeePC's

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Is anyone else considering picking one of these up? I finally have a job (my first) so I've got lots of extra cash in my pocket after I put away half of my paychecks, and I'm really thinking of getting one of these.

Here's a couple links to get you guys started:
http://www.mobilewhack.com/-asus-eeepc-701/
http://fullygeek.com/2007/06/asus-eeepc-701/

But I'm in sort of a dilemma. I don't know if I should go ahead and get the 701 as soon as it comes out, or hold out until 2008-sometime and get the 1001 which is basically the same as the 701, but comes with a 10 inch screen instead of a 7 inch. I imagine the specs will be nearly the same.

It comes with integrated wifi, dial-up modem (:guilty: ), 512MB RAM, flash memory, integrated card reader, nad most of the other standard bells and whistles, along with a built in microphone and webcam.

The price starts at $199.

Thoughts?
 
Its an amazingly good deal I would think for students and people that just need a laptop for quick notes and research.

I plan on getting one once I have my desktop parts here and built. Would be ideal for class and such, being as small as it is. The smaller the better I say for something like this, though a 10 inch screen would be nice for web surfing.

Oh, and don't bother with the 8 gb model, as for the 100 dollar price difference, you can get a nice Western Digital passport that hold 120 gigs or so.
 
Azuremen
Its an amazingly good deal I would think for students and people that just need a laptop for quick notes and research.

I plan on getting one once I have my desktop parts here and built. Would be ideal for class and such, being as small as it is. The smaller the better I say for something like this, though a 10 inch screen would be nice for web surfing.

Oh, and don't bother with the 8 gb model, as for the 100 dollar price difference, you can get a nice Western Digital passport that hold 120 gigs or so.
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Yeah, I wouldn't use the 701 for anything too hardcore. Slap my favorite Linux distro in it, install Firefox, a couple emulators, some movies, music, and I'm set.

And I agree on the 'it would be good for class' bit, but I'm only going into tenth grade so it's not really needed. I think this would be just a carry-around-with-me laptop I'd use in my sparetime.

And space is basically a non issue. If am ever in need of more space, I've got a 300GB external Maxtor sitting around, not doing much of anything useful.

So I think I'm going to put away a good chunk of my next few paychecks and save up for the 701. It seems like such a good deal. I really like how it's got the card readers, WiFi, and webcam all integrated. Very nice.
 
$200? Seriously? That's a ridiculously low price. My Palm TX retails at more than that.

I guess this fits somewhere in between a PDA and a PC, which I personally think is a bit of a dodgy market. If it's not fast at booting and doesn't come with huge battery life, most PDA users won't want to know. And with those specs and the tiny screen, I don't think many regular notebook users will be converted. But, I think this might just do it. It's just so inexpensive! Over here in the UK, it's impossible to find a new laptop for the equivilent of $400, let alone 200. I'm sure they'll stick a markup on it for us (Dell do the same...), but it's still excellent value. It's more competing with portable DVD players than anything else.

Me? I couldn't say. Looks very tempting, but I need more performance and I couldn't live with the screen size. At that price, though, who knows? ;)
 
Jondot
$200? Seriously? That's a ridiculously low price. My Palm TX retails at more than that.

I guess this fits somewhere in between a PDA and a PC, which I personally think is a bit of a dodgy market. If it's not fast at booting and doesn't come with huge battery life, most PDA users won't want to know. And with those specs and the tiny screen, I don't think many regular notebook users will be converted. But, I think this might just do it. It's just so inexpensive! Over here in the UK, it's impossible to find a new laptop for the equivilent of $400, let alone 200. I'm sure they'll stick a markup on it for us (Dell do the same...), but it's still excellent value. It's more competing with portable DVD players than anything else.

Me? I couldn't say. Looks very tempting, but I need more performance and I couldn't live with the screen size. At that price, though, who knows? ;)
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Well, you said you live in the UK, so the price will probably be all jacked up like everything else over there. :nervous:
 
It's a smart thing to do on the part of Asus, but me using Linux and Ubuntu, it never worked out really. So it doesn't like I'd ever be getting one.
 
Haha, I might not be bothered but a lot of other potential buyers might. It's a bit like selling a new car that runs on LRP.
 
Jondot
Haha, I might not be bothered but a lot of other potential buyers might. It's a bit like selling a new car that runs on LRP.
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LRP?.

I honestly don't see any advantages to Vista over anything else.

Sure, it looks pretty. Too bad Compiz/Beryl can do all of that, and better.
 
You will not want to run XP on that. Given how cheap it is, I'd guess 1Ghz processor or less. If you don't care that much it isn't a huge deal I guess. How much does the 16GB go for?
 
XP would be okay on it, Vista would not be.

Its a 900 MHz Intel processor, more than adequate to run a web browser, spread sheet, etc. More so when you considering how much more effective modern processors are compared to those of 4 years ago that were 900 MHz.

Though eBiggs, I don't see why you'd bother buying more storage on these, as the price to upgrade will cost more than a small external drive.
 
Because carrying around a small external hard drive isn't always convenient. Ubuntu also takes up around 3GB for just the root partition. A home partition is recommended as well as swap. Swap matches the amount of RAM, home is basically your data partition that settings will automatically save to. I suppose both could be but on the external, but if you don't have it you won't have any program settings saved or any other personal files. I think XP may use about the same or maybe more space without the built in options to install where you like (but you know this..). I can get a 4GB memory card for my phone. 4GB in a computer is pretty much unacceptable.
 
Eh, I have to differ. The Western Digital Passport is about the size of an iPod, and would easily fit in my pocket or a back pack sleeve. These things also are not designed to be media stations, and the install they come with is probably pretty light. Basic data files, etc, are also not large file wise.

Space gets consumed 99% by media these days, and while I do have tons of media, I would live with packing around a mini external HDD rather than pay another 100 or so bucks for 4 more gigs of internal storage. Now if this was a dedicated home computer, etc, I would gawk at the idea of 4 gigs.
 
Along the lines of External HD's...

I've got a 300GB external Maxtor, but it requires a power source.

Are there any external HD's that don't require an additional power source?
 
Mentioned it 3 times in the thread now, but once more...

Western Digital Passport...
wdfPassport_Portable_2.jpg

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=262

The 80 Gig ones go for under 100 bucks normally, and you can often find the 160 gig ones on sale, etc.
 
Hmmm... That is certainly quite an interesting little gizmo.. We're in the process of re-designing our complete AD at work, and one of these, with the 10" screen, locked with a flavor of Linux that can do nothing but connect to whatever network is available and then run a Citrix client. Would be ideal for salesmen who's always on the go. No data locally should it get stolen is just a 200% bonus - not to mention the price....

I'm recommending this to my boss...
 
nissan350z
Good gawd.

THAT seems too good to be true. Even better specs than the 1001 and it's $150.

Man. I seriously might have to get one of those.
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Their check out seems a bit... shady. Further more, the 256 megs of RAM is a joke and a half. On top of that, it has the full size laptop deal going on for it... 5lbs, etc. I also see problems with the custom Linux distro and fiddling with things too much.

I'm gonna say the Asus is a better platform and idea, even if the cost is a bit more.
 
Azuremen
Their check out seems a bit... shady. Further more, the 256 megs of RAM is a joke and a half. On top of that, it has the full size laptop deal going on for it... 5lbs, etc. I also see problems with the custom Linux distro and fiddling with things too much.

I'm gonna say the Asus is a better platform and idea, even if the cost is a bit more.
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You can always throw away the Linux distro and put your favorite flavor on. Or Windows if you feel like buying a license. For $150 its a steal I think. That Celeron should be upgradeable. I have a 2.3Ghz Celeron in my Dell Inspiron, but that could be a different socket. Biggest downside looks to be the single RAM slot. 1GB of notebook RAM is fairly expensive.

Edit: It isn't a custom Linux distro. It is running Fedora (Core 6 I assume).

Edit2: And their accessories page is garbage. 1 year warranty though.
 
Ebiggs
You can always throw away the Linux distro and put your favorite flavor on. Or Windows if you feel like buying a license. For $150 its a steal I think. That Celeron should be upgradeable. I have a 2.3Ghz Celeron in my Dell Inspiron, but that could be a different socket. Biggest downside looks to be the single RAM slot. 1GB of notebook RAM is fairly expensive.

Edit: It isn't a custom Linux distro. It is running Fedora (Core 6 I assume).

Edit2: And their accessories page is garbage. 1 year warranty though.
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Hmm... there maybe hope for it. I thought most Laptop sockets where different than their corresponding desktops', but I could be mistaken.

Just realized the bestest use ever for the eeePc - after market ECU programming. Perfect size laptop to keep in the car to plug in and tweak settings and monitor the various sensors.
 
Breathing new life into an old thread.

Stignumbers is going to buy a new computer and he’s dead set upon buying the Asus Eee 900HA which is a netbook with the capabilities of running fairly advanced programs. However I have some questions about it since I’m going to be the one who will be fiddling with the computer’s hardware so I need to know some things off the bat:

Does the 900HA actually its own CD drive?

If not where can I find how to hard wire one to a CD drive?

Can I just slap in any sort of RAM or are there certain ones that are required to operate properly?

That’s all that I can think of right now so if you guys know the answers or where to actually the answer it would be great. I’ve been surfing that blasted eeeuser forum and it’s like pulling teeth. I’m going to hunt down the guy who sets up that stupid forum and beat him for stupidity.
 
No CD drive. So you have to have another computer around to rip the CDs to USB, or buy an external USB CD-Drive (Which are pretty bulky and defeats the purpose of a small laptop).

The Ram is just standard DDR2 533 Laptop Ram, so you can probably upgrade them to 2GB, though I haven't ripped one apart so I'd only be 90% confident on that.
 
I don't know why you'd need a CD drive for an Eee anyway. They are not supposed to be desktop replacements.
 
You could easily buy a USB external CD driver but you could just as easily copy the contents off the CD onto a USB stick (using another computer) and install software from that, provided the disk isnt copy protected.

As for RAM many of the netbooks have memory hardwired to the system and don't have expansion slots. Although more recient ones now usually have one slot. If it does its going to just be standard laptop RAM.

Robin.
 

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