asus eeePC

do you want?

It looks a bit like something you'd see advertised in a Sunday supplement.

haha otm

can you install linux on a hearing aid?

this and the kindle in one day WTF?

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/eee-pc-review.ars

8GB of storage? In 2007? Who cares if it's flash, that's weak, especially with no built-in optical drive. Is it supposed to be some sort of middle ground between a PDA and a laptop? Though I do like the idea of a Linux system being aimed at the mainstream. It could possibly work as a good casual computer for those who only need to use email and the internet, with maybe a little bit of word processing. I couldn't see myself getting one, unless I was on a very tight budget and absolutely needed to compute things right away.

But really, it just reinforces my belief that the 12" PowerBook/iBook is about the smallest that a fully-featured computer could comfortably get.

Rumours of a flash-based ultra-portable Mac are reaching bursting point.

I'm not bothered about having lots of gigs of storage on a machine that's not my main one, at least when the benefits of weight, reliability and battery life are so great.

Apple is way behind when it comes to small laptops. The thinkpad x60s weighs half what a Macbook does, is smaller than the 12" PowerBook and gets seven hours of battery life. It also has an 80gb drive and lotsa ports.

9" eee ships in a couple weeks - and it seems a 10" eee is to follow by end of year.

Anyone here have one of the eee's?

I'm now no longer sure whether I want to get something like this, or something more ipod-touch like. Contradictory wants probably

I would like work to buy me an hp micronote. I'd also like hp to make a micronote with xp pro.

I'm prob gonna get one in a couple weeks.

The eee's are pretty cool simply because of the tiny form factor, and they're amazingly quiet (no fans). Sure they're just oversized PDAs but for $400 bucks you can't complain.

Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables:

http://www.liliputing.com/2008/04/over-past-six-months-or-so-asus-everex_24.html

I like the HP right now but I'm going to wait it out as usual and see if anybody actually manages the wipe the floor with the rest in round one, and find out what kind of problems these things start having after six months of use

they're amazingly quiet (no fans)

rong

the keyboard is annoying

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/345/003rw8.jpg

Mine is brill. I blew away the horrid Xandros default and put eeeXubuntu on there, and it does everything I would ever want it to do.

xp the keyboard is fine once you get used to it. A larger keyboard would defeat the purpose of the whole device.

See also: the TRS 100, the granddaddy of them all.

OH GOD WHY HAVE YOU GOT XP ON THAT THING

cause it came like that and i don't care?

ugh

Rob and Nick have XP on theirs as well, and it runs great actually - and before you whine and stomp some more, Nick develops in DX10 don't forget so he has to run it, dig.

I'll also add I think XP is fine and I dont get the kneejerk hate but thats for another thread and been done to death and back again.

ugh

Rob and Nick have XP on theirs as well, and it runs great actually - and before you whine and stomp some more, Nick develops in DX10 don't forget so he has to run it, dig.

heh, yeah. I know some people have to use XP for work or whatever so it's cool. Really, I don't hate you or anything.

I'll also add I think XP is fine and I dont get the kneejerk hate but thats for another thread and been done to death and back again.

I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

Vista is a clusterfuck, XP is fine.

Anyway, eeePCs - great or ripoff? Tombot makes good point abt low cost ultraportables, and last month's PC Authority did an article on this, saying basically "why buy an eee for $470 when you can get a Toshy or HP 12" with DVD burner and etc etc for only a couple hundred more?".

Valid points though it depends on purpose of eee - affordability? OS? Portability? (srsly if anyone can sell me a PC as light and tiny as the eee with a DVD burner and HDD in it for less than $800 I'd probably buy it).

Yeah for me it's about having a portable internet/writing machine on the cheap.

Me too. DVD, meh. This thing slips in my bag and goes everywhere with me.

I gotta say Vista plays a lot nicer than I thought it would.

On an Eee PC?! Surely you're joking.

Semi-related and not really much of a point but - the other day I realized you can actually get notebook tablet PCs from HP nowadays for around a grand. When did this happen!? Tablets used to be ridiculously expensive.

On a similar note to tablets, Wacom have released an affordable Cintiq now, which is the monitor version of their digital tablets, so you're drawing right on the screen. About $1400 I think? A lot, but compared to the other one they released for over $3k its not a bad deal if you do a lot of digital art.

$1000 from reputable folx. I totally want it.

Fuck a tablet w/o at least 1k levels of pressure-sensitivity.

1k levels!!

O btw thats maybe $1200-1400 AUD, which is probably $20 US.

Other way round ffs, the US dollar is somewhere around the Zimbabwe dollar atm.

thanks for the list link Tom

http://www.buy.com/prod/hp-mini-note-2133-pc-via-c7-m-ulv-1-2ghz-128kb-l2-1gb-ddr2-sdram-120gb/q/loc/101/207873474.html

anyone had a look at this one?

I love that they're all doing it (except Sony, who had a giant fuck-off whinge/sook about cheap laptops killing the industry)

Other way round ffs, the US dollar is somewhere around the Zimbabwe dollar atm.

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I know I was gonna say

I set up this little dude in coffee shops and get busy, and apart from the occasional 'omg how cute' from waiting staff it's an incredibly portable and productive way to get some writing done. It's only been two months and already I can't live without it.

if my eee had had XP on it I wouldn't have given it away (to my little bro)

if my eee had had XP on it I would have cried

before installing eeexubuntu

Worth waiting for Diamondville for these little laptops?

XP is fine if you're from a cultural backwater.

Mine came in about a week ago, loving it a lot. Used it + external to soundtrack a party, writing some short stories on it, been streaming Season 2 of 30 Rock. V happy.

I'm so glad I have better things to do than GIVE A FUCK WHAT OPERATING SYSTEM I USE ON A COMPUTER.

/tombot

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=eeexubuntu

you mean it's possible to obtain more information about a thing by typing its name into google?

well, f� me ragged.

hey, just trying to be helpful. that first link details the install procedure so you can gauge for yourself whether it's elaborate or not.

google may even help with your synaptic problems 8) (off the top of my head i think you may need to be running it as root (if the eee thing has such a thing), but you didn't give us much to go on...)

(btw a centralised repository for software packages (9000+ for ubuntu) is in no way wacky. the windows way of getting every single package from a different place, that's the odd way of doing things)

Synaptic:
http://www.eeewiki.org/howto:installsoftwarequickguide

there does appear to be a problem with synaptic on the eee, probably related to searching - http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=31481#p31481

which gives these errors:
E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (2)
E: Unable to lock the download directory

a lot of people also not too happy about the default repositories. that top link tells you how to add others.

Xandros is shit. That may have something to do with it.

My 701 4G has been running eeeXubuntu for months and it's delightful. Everything works.

aah, sorry, i get grouchy when i'm staying late at work : /
thanks for the help, it does look like my problems with synaptic are common ones.

is there a good beginner's book on linux? i really could do with one.

i think you're better off with the internets than with a book tbh. getting a book for your choice of distro may be difficult (and they differ enough so that one won't be any use with another). they also change so fast that a publisher couldn't really keep up.

that said, a quick google for ubuntu books turns up a few. some say things like 'new technology introduced with Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)' (lol old!) but others look ok. amazon has a bunch, including 8.04 and a couple that mention xubunutu (though not specifically xeebuntu, or whatever it's called...)

oh, seems the ubuntu spirit applies to publishing too:
http://www.linux-books.us/ubuntu_0002.php <- 5.04!
http://vntutor.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-online-ubuntu-linux-books.html

I went with the Acer Aspire One (the 512mb ram, 8gb SSG linux model)

I am very happy with it and feel I made the right choice. There are 2 downsides to this box, 1) the position of the mousepad buttons is a bit annoying, 2) the battery life is under 3 hours, i think its one of the shorter battery lives of the notebooks. Everything else has ticked its box for me just fine

Anyone else get one of these?

(I almost waited for Dells effort to see what they would do. Looking at it, I'm glad I didn't)

Wireless just stopped working on my 701 (eeeXubuntu). About to see whether it's a hardware fault or the most recent s/w update killed it.

I got a 1000H with XP and 80GB HD a few months ago, and I'm pretty satisfied

cultural backwaters my azs

EEEEEEE!

lol get a acer aspire one mac

(I secretly want a mac, still)

lol macs can stop being ridiculously expensive before I will get one

macs are expensive if you like paying yourself less than minimum wage to deal with driver issues.

they are also expensive if you work hourly and have shitty insurance

true, i was just hoping to get AA to blame Linux's problems on hardware vendors : P

EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

omg some bait

what about this - dude is insanely enthusiastic abt it
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ahpn_asus-n10ja2-netbook_tech

it's not the prettiest or anything but i like it
thankfully i have no money right now so cannot give in to incredible urge to buy
no i do not want a mac, i have done that and it is no more
this is like $1100 cdn... but it would go in my purse! i would turn into some weird mini-dog lady except instead of a mini-dog i have a mini-laptop. that loves me.

I don't keep up with PC lappies, but that Asus has stolen more features from Mac than I have ever seen in one place.

ahaha that daily motion guy got rather excited

"I'm speechless. I'm without speech."

lol @ CompUSA nametag

splashtop looked interesting. although hitting 'exit' to start the pc is a bit counter-intuitive.

but it's a netbook book that has as much ram, disk, graphics, wireless as a proper laptop AND costs as much as a proper laptop = it's a laptop, only smaller.

(actually, that is better than my laptop in every department. apart from operating system 8))

i just ordered 1000he. i probly could have gone with ssd, but the 1000he is small and light enough and still has 7 to 9 hours of battery time from accounts i've read.

My Acer Aspire One (original model, I think) died for no apparent reason just about the second it was out of its one year warranty and I miss it but am now pretty suspicious of the build quality of these things.

Are people still happy with their netbooks? Any newer models which are sturdier or have better battery life? Any other tales of woe to put me off buying a new one?

Oh dear, I have an Acer Aspire One and had no problems with it so far. Was yours solid state or hard drive based?

I think that you should try getting your money back if it's barely out of warranty, there was a piece on the One Show where you could still claim using the Sale of Goods Act which unsurprisingly retailers are reluctant to puclicise.

I also have an Acer Aspire one which has died. Haven't looked at it properly but I noticed it was having trouble charging for a while before that unless the cable was in in a certain way. So it might be the adaptor to the mains thats gone - don't know anyone else with one to try swap batteries and see what happens.

I got an iphone since then and I've found that it fulfills what I wanted out of a netbook perfectly

Had my eee for like two years now? and still haven't managed to install a proper OS on it : /

We have these at work - Acer Veritons - and i kind of want one:

http://base1.googlehosted.com/base_media?q=FroogleCatalog_CNETI791771.jpg&size=4&dhm=eec1e6f6&hl=en

Just because they're, you know, diddy. I don't really want a desktop that can't at least run Left 4 Dead, though.

Mine was hard disk based. I accidentally ran the battery right down (which had happened once or twice before with no problem so it may just be coincidence) and then it wouldn't turn back on even after charging or on mains. It seemed to charge OK as the mains/charge light still comes on, changed colour, etc, but when I turn it on nothing happens.

I got a more hardware-clueful friend to open it up, blow dust out, check connections, wave a multimeter at it, and he declared it dead.

It was really nice being able to ILX on the sofa and stuff, and after using something so small and light a full-size laptop just seems very heavy and awkward, but I guess it is a pretty unnecessary luxury really since it never made it more than about 6 metres from the desktop and I never got round to my daydreams of increased creativity, you know, "oh now I will make music every evening and I will learn to code wonderful and amazing things... but first I'll just flick between messageboards pressing F5 for four hours in a row, watch some youtubes and then go to bed"

laptops direct are selling "Grade A2" aspire one's from £120. they are A110L (the linux version) but maybe you can upgrade it with the working parts of the old one.

Thomp:

I think they now have something called "EEEbuntu" (or something similar) for a more "proper OS" flavor.

I've had the MSI Wind (rebadged by Advent) for over a year and, useless standard battery life aside, been pretty pleased with it.

I had to do an assessment of various netbooks as part of my job and the one that came out top (and which various of my colleagues now use very happily) was the Samsung NC10 - still a "proper" netbook in terms of size but with much better battery life than a lot of the others I saw and not at all unpleasant from an ergonomic or visual perspective.

Hm, the Samsung does look pretty good. It's a lot more than I paid for the Acer, but then so are the Acers now.

Have found (offline) a friend of a friend with another broken Aspire One of similar model/vintage which he's already given up on, so I'm borrowing that to see if the power brick or battery work or if there's any other chance of turning the parts into one working machine between the two.

oh hi, I have and enjoy one of these and all my portable big-project writing lives on it and tags along with me in my bag all day

thinking about getting one of those tiny Toshiba netbooks (?) for in the shop. usually i have to sit in the back cause i got a damn desktop comp (imac).

had the asus in my pannier for a few months, its great so far. pretty rugged.

has anyone successfully managed to update flash on their eee?

it's great fun - first question is 'do you want to download the YUM, .prm, tarball or .deb version?' yeah, like i know

i eventually managed to replace libflashplayer.so in the mozilla plugins directory with the most recent version, which was itself a pain in the arse, because the eee interface won't actually let you move or delete most files on your hard drive: however, the result has been that mozilla now denies having any installation of flash at all

i mean, grr.

are you still on ubuntu

ubunutu is debian based

so

$sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

should work?

I install flash on my Eee and then it works for a few sessions and then it breaks and then I ignore it for awhile and then I reinstall.

ubunutu is debian based

so

$sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

should work?

― Jarlrmai, Saturday, October 31, 2009 2:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Note, selecting adobe-flashplugin instead of flashplugin-nonfree
adobe-flashplugin is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
adobe-flashplugin: Depends: libnspr4-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnss3-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.2) but 1.12.4-3 is to be inst alled
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13 is to be install ed
Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.4.0) but 1.2.4-4 is to be installe d
Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5) but 2.2.1-5 is to be insta lled
Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1) but 1:4.1.1-21 is to be insta lled
Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0) but 2.12.4-2 is to be ins talled
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) but 2.8.20-7 is to be inst alled
Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.3) but 1.14.8-5 is to be in stalled
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1) but 4.1.1-21 is to be instal led
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a s olution).

(what's the better eee linux version all the eee users who know what they're doing run? i think i'm going to switch to that after i finish my tefl training. don't want to risk using my computer beforehand.)

(also, is the book 'ubuntu for non-geeks' any good? i have an old win xp desktop i might try an ubuntu install on, just to get some concept of how to do things without the special constraints of the eee going on around me)

try fedora aka eeedora

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EeePc