asus eee

[Saturn0660]

A buddy at work said he was gonna pick one up. and showed me the web site.. I've been looking for a small laptop and this seems to fit the bill... Anyone on here have one? Whats everyone think?


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[TerriO]

Y'know, I'm not 100% sure, because the last time I saw them was 3 years ago now, but a friend of mine in Ireland has one of these, or at the very least something like it. I remember thinking it was a nice little out-and-about working machine that didn't take up a ton of space in the bag to carry. She had nothing but good things to say about it.

Like I said, I'm not 100% sure if it was an ASUS machine or not, but I do distinctively remember the smaller size laptop and a very similar type of display to the one they show.

 

[Marc]

saturn0660 said:
A buddy at work said he was gonna pick one up. and showed me the web site.. I've been looking for a small laptop and this seems to fit the bill... Anyone on here have one? Whats everyone think?


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if you';re planning on it for pretty regular use and want to run a wide range of programs on the thing - forget it.

Look for a full sub-notebook or a lightweight full notebook for general use. It's speed isn't that great and with modern apps a 7" screen just won't cut it.

Need something just to check the web and e-mail when you're on the road, maybe a quick letter? then sure the eee pc will be fine.

 

[The Doctor]

It's a fun novelty, that's for sure, but for not much more cash you can get a fully functional notebook. The EEE is hobbled by a severely underclocked Intel processor running at ~600 MHz and extremely cramped flash storage at 4 or 8 GB.

Unless the space concerns are paramount in your purchase choice, I'd steer clear.

If you do get one and are adventurous, there is a fairly active community dedicated to modding the EEE, giving it greater functionality. You can also run OS X on this machine if you're up for a challenge.

 

[Saturn0660]

osx might be fun... I've read that XP will run also.. I'm looking for something as an extra laptop... i.e. sitting in bed surfin..Watching TV surfin. Maybe some quick typing at work.. I know for a little more money i can get a full laptop... Shit i sell'em at work.. However, nothing that small comes close to that price.. Plus i would just put in an extra 8gb SD card for a total or 12... Besides how much do you need??

 

[Marc]

saturn0660 said:
osx might be fun... I've read that XP will run also.. I'm looking for something as an extra laptop... i.e. sitting in bed surfin..Watching TV surfin. Maybe some quick typing at work.. I know for a little more money i can get a full laptop... Shit i sell'em at work.. However, nothing that small comes close to that price.. Plus i would just put in an extra 8gb SD card for a total or 12... Besides how much do you need??

probably not that much given it's limitations

Though it's a worry when your operating system can chew up half your available mass storage.

 

[The Doctor]

saturn0660 said:
osx might be fun... I've read that XP will run also.. I'm looking for something as an extra laptop... i.e. sitting in bed surfin..Watching TV surfin. Maybe some quick typing at work.. I know for a little more money i can get a full laptop... Shit i sell'em at work.. However, nothing that small comes close to that price.. Plus i would just put in an extra 8gb SD card for a total or 12... Besides how much do you need??

Oh, I dunno. I've got about a terabyte of combined storage at home (not including the drive in my notebook.) It'll do me for a while.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Being a happy owner of an ASUS R2H, I've also been eying the triple-e. I think the price is a bit high for what you get, but then, I waited until a couple hundred was shaved off the R2H before I bought that, too. Buying it at the cutting edge just doesn't seem worth it.

I have owned subnotebooks before, though. One must keep in mind that their hardware is quite limited. Anything beyond some modest web surfing and document editing is not going to work well. For someone like me, it would probably be fine--I'm working with text a good 90% of the time, writing articles and stories, coding, etc.

 

[Marc]

Robert Maxwell said:
Being a happy owner of an ASUS R2H, I've also been eying the triple-e. I think the price is a bit high for what you get, but then, I waited until a couple hundred was shaved off the R2H before I bought that, too. Buying it at the cutting edge just doesn't seem worth it.

I have owned subnotebooks before, though. One must keep in mind that their hardware is quite limited. Anything beyond some modest web surfing and document editing is not going to work well. For someone like me, it would probably be fine--I'm working with text a good 90% of the time, writing articles and stories, coding, etc.

Don't know what the eee goes for in the U.S but in Australia it's going for $499 (about $US4460) so I'm not sure if there's really a couple of hundred dollars to come off the price.

They have caught some attention becuase of their size and cheap price but I don't know if they are selling once people have actually looked at them.

Think I will have to have a look at one sometime though - they might actually do for a project a client has one - users on the road just need access to access a secure website and the eee's could do the trick.

 

[Saturn0660]

You can get it for $399 US... white or black.. 512mb ram and the 4gb hardrive

 

[rType]

saturn0660 said:
You can get it for $399 US... white or black.. 512mb ram and the 4gb hardrive

Of course the EEE was rather more impressive when this level of specification was supposed to cost USD $200.

 

[The Doctor]

rType said:

saturn0660 said:
You can get it for $399 US... white or black.. 512mb ram and the 4gb hardrive

Of course the EEE was rather more impressive when this level of specification was supposed to cost USD $200.

That's how I felt about it as well, but it's still a cool little gadget and if I had a burning need for an ultraportable I'd definitely give one a serious look.

As it stands, my standard sized Gateway 15 inch widescreen is light and small enough for my needs and was only $200 more than an 4 GB EEE.

You know, Gateway doesn't have the best reputation, but this notebook is pretty darn good and came very nicely equipped for $600.

 

[Marc]

The Stig said:

You know, Gateway doesn't have the best reputation, but this notebook is pretty darn good and came very nicely equipped for $600.

But sometimes they can do um interesting things.

Gateway closed down in Australia about 6 years ago.

I know of company that purchased $15k worth of gateway hardware just before this time and they were delivered as the company completely pulled the plug. The purchaser had the finance in place but no invoice was ever issued.

It was believe the lack on invoice (so no payment made) was due to a final fuck-you from a disgruntled soon to be ex employee

 

[LavianoTS386]

I've got an Eee. I'm typing on it right now. I paid $500 for the 8G w/ 1gb of ram and it came with a 1000 dpi mouse. (other models don't come with a mouse). I'm running ubuntu on it (with a macmenu applet to get more screen space)

I used to have a Compaq 579wm, but it was 15" and 6 pounds, by the time you add the bag, and other stuff, it was more like 8 or 9lbs to lug around back and forth from work. After a week with my Eee I sold it.

My Eee fits right into my duffle bag so I cut down on the number of bags I had to carry from and to my car.

But if you're buying an 8G there's something you need to know, Asus hasn't released a bios upgrade for it yet to allow it to run at the full 900mhz, so you'll have to do some tweaking to get it to run that fast.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I'm looking into getting one, I don't see it as a primary machine but as something easy and lightweight to work on different ideas and stuff when I'm away from home but don't have to lug an expensive full-size beast around.

 

[LavianoTS386]

The Stig said:
It's a fun novelty, that's for sure, but for not much more cash you can get a fully functional notebook. The EEE is hobbled by a severely underclocked Intel processor running at ~600 MHz and extremely cramped flash storage at 4 or 8 GB.

You can go into the bios and clock it at it's rated speed.

 

[Saturn0660]

Mr. Adventure said:
I'm looking into getting one, I don't see it as a primary machine but as something easy and lightweight to work on different ideas and stuff when I'm away from home but don't have to lug an expensive full-size beast around.

Thats what i was thinking... My buddy who has one.. Course i've STILL not seen it as of yet... Said we'll throw XP on it and 1gig-o-ram and cram a 16gig HCSD into her... she'll be good to go...