Asus Eee Pc - Page 2

Bassey · 25-04-2008, 09:29 AM

The more I see of the Eee PC, the more I'm thinking it might be the solution to my wifes aging laptop. We have a decent spec desktop in the study and she has a 4.5 year old Dell laptop in the living room which largely gets used for email and internet.

She does the odd bit of publisher and has a greeting card app on there, but they get used rarely so could be put on the desktop under her account.

The weird thing is, despite her laptop being so old, it's a Pentium Centrino 1.5Ghz with 512MB of RAM. That's pretty much what you would get today for £300-350. You've got to pay well over £400 for anything significantly better. An Eee for £230 sounds much better to my poor wallet

johnston411 · 25-04-2008, 09:57 AM

sounds like a plan.

we have an inspiron 8100 which seems to be giving up the ghost so I'll use the eee and the boss can use the vaio when I'm working

fowljr · 25-04-2008, 10:00 AM

Now that is totally cool, the eeePC looks like a very viable and cheaper alternative to a shift, but I think the modifications may well be outside my skill level with a soldering iron...

Bassey · 25-04-2008, 10:07 AM

Oh no, I wouldn't be bothering with the modding either.

I managed to change some taps a few weeks ago and I swapped some door handles over. Neither job is perfect but both a functional and seem to represent the limits of my tinkering skills!

The new 900 looks nice with Linux and a 20GB SSD, but that's getting into laptop price territory. I think the original with an 8GB USB Memory stick looks much better value.

Anyone know anything about printer drivers for these things?

johnston411 · 25-04-2008, 10:09 AM

mine too. there is a touch screen that comes ready to attach without soldering or modding the equipment. basically you open it up, disconnect the web cam and plug the touch screen in its place. then wmwifirouter for data or a usb modem used in the conventional manner

johnston411 · 25-04-2008, 10:19 AM

there are people selling ones with touch screens on ebay too.

I print on network printers so haven't researched that.

if the dell is off to pasture use the xp from that and problem gone.

I'm going to put a 16gb sd case in mine.

johnston411 · 14-05-2008, 04:46 PM

it's arrived.

Posted via Mobile Device

fowljr · 14-05-2008, 05:54 PM

We'll need piccies and impressions.... Posted via Mobile Device

windows · 14-05-2008, 07:23 PM

Defo - breath baited and all that!

johnston411 · 14-05-2008, 07:45 PM

well i've just got it back from my boy but first impressions are WOW.

Am using it at the moment.

The xandros linux is really easy to use and nice and quick too. Boots in 22secs. I'm gonna stick with it for a bit as i won't need to sync with it for now.

I'll stick some pics up in a mo.

I'll post some better quality ones later but a bit pushed for time. The phone is a samsung u700 and its not mine but was using the dual to take the photo's and wanted something for scale