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Feb 4th, 2008 01:56 AM
Fathom Zero Stephen Fry loves his EEE.
Jan 23rd, 2008 06:25 PM
Girl Drink Drunk Just send em some Commodore 64's.
Jan 23rd, 2008 03:42 PM
Fathom Zero Tres cool. I'm about 3/4ths of the way there.

Mind posting a picture or two. I like pictures. A lot.
Jan 23rd, 2008 02:56 PM
Seven Force
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Originally Posted by MLE View Post
Guess what <3 Guess what I got <3 With 2 gigs of RAM <3
Jan 22nd, 2008 04:51 PM
MLE Guess what <3 Guess what I got <3 With 2 gigs of RAM <3
Dec 16th, 2007 12:32 PM
Fathom Zero By the way, upgrading the RAM and breaking the "VOID IF BROKEN" seal is covered under the warranty.

http://www.eeeuser.com/2007/12/09/br...s-says-its-ok/
Dec 16th, 2007 12:28 PM
Fathom Zero
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Originally Posted by MLE View Post
And keep in mind, it looks like these guys upgraded their ram to 2gigs.
True, true, but my laptop has two gigs and has extreme trouble with the geometry and vectoring and shading and whatever on a lot of games. And I've seen some 2 gig sticks for around $40 - $75. Not that it doesn't run at all with just 512 megs. It's just the games.

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Originally Posted by RussoNWM View Post
Can somebody explain to me how having laptops helps African children?
Ummmmmm. Uhh. Technically, it doesn't help them at all, I guess. It just lets them get a feel of the computer world when they may ordinarily go their entire lives without seeing one.
Dec 16th, 2007 12:21 PM
Archduke Tips Can somebody explain to me how having laptops helps African children?
Dec 16th, 2007 06:15 AM
MLE And keep in mind, it looks like these guys upgraded their ram to 2gigs.
Dec 16th, 2007 06:11 AM
MLE When i have some fucking money, yes. I have to take care of a good chunk of my debt first.
Dec 15th, 2007 10:29 PM
Fathom Zero http://wiki.eeeuser.com/list:games

To help get into your mind exactly how powerful the EEE is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UixLlpMgJqA - Halflife 2: Episode 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOaMAI0jFCM - GTA: Vice City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCUm9z0jKGU - Halo and UT: 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyLrs-4TAjwv - Morrowind and Oblivion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWzzSgsh3Pg - Emulating Playstation, Final Fantasy 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biRzKj3XxCY - Compiz demo (not technically impressive, but really cool)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6sERl1znR8 - Counterstrike (guy has a shit camera)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBV40RXYGok - a better Counterstrike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g13wYPq8xlk - Some soccer game

I want one so bad, my hair is standing on end. MLE, are you still getting one?
Nov 6th, 2007 06:39 PM
Fathom Zero Agreed. Buncha idiots worked out that one.
Nov 5th, 2007 09:27 PM
DeadKennedys Oh, great. They gave them to Nigeria. Get em learning 419 scams young.

I hope we steal them back, give them to worthwhile countries, and nuke the place.
Nov 4th, 2007 09:16 AM
Fathom Zero Get your fill on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-White-Mob...185620&sr=8-10

Best Buy is supposedly getting stock on November 11th, if Engadget is to be believed. It'd be a good chance to test the thing out in person if any of ya live in the area.
Oct 31st, 2007 07:20 PM
Fathom Zero Holy damn, the entire stock at Newegg is sold out and it goes on sale tomorrow.
Oct 28th, 2007 01:41 AM
Fathom Zero CNet UK gave it the Editor's Choice.

I will buy it by the end of the year, but I won't preorder it yet because I've committed myself to building a kick-ass desktop.
Oct 26th, 2007 07:01 PM
MLE I plan on getting one, and the delay of the preorder shit is why i didn't preorder it.
Oct 26th, 2007 07:03 AM
Dr. V It still looks gay.
Oct 25th, 2007 05:40 PM
Fathom Zero The OLPC? Hahahaha no.

The EEE PC, however, it can run F.E.A.R. and the Source Engine games like Portal and Halflife 2, but it has a little bit of trouble rendering shading that people are trying to work out.

By the way, it goes on sale on Nov. 1st.
Oct 25th, 2007 03:05 AM
Dr. V Can I play Gears on it?
Oct 16th, 2007 12:48 AM
Fathom Zero Getting back to the original topic, the OLPC isn't really the $100 everyone thought it'd be. Instead, it's around $188 and it'll only be available for consumers starting November 12 for two weeks.

Donate $400, you get a laptop and some negro child gets one too. Not bad, I guess.

http://www.xogiving.org/

WARNING: DONATING $200 NOW WILL NOT GET YOU A LAPTOP, SO DON'T LOSE IT. IT STARTS NOV. 12.

I love it, personally, 'cause it's so damn tacky.
Oct 6th, 2007 05:15 PM
Zbu Manowar I wouldn't mind having one myself. If it could fit my gigantic hands, then it'd be gold for school use and such.
Oct 1st, 2007 07:48 PM
MLE Thanks <3
Sep 30th, 2007 11:15 PM
Fathom Zero ___________

Here's a pre-production review: http://translate.google.com/translat...%26next%3D9649
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl...%26next%3D9675
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl...%26next%3D9713

Second link has a video.

"polocanada wrote:
My review about ASUS EEE PC:
I became one of very few privileged consumers in Canada to own the Asus EEE PC model 701 version with 4 GB drive. This is a *** pre-production ** model and I bought it from a company that did an online review for Asus. I LOVE THIS MACHINE. Overall look - it looks sexy, tiny, light, plesant to hold.

SYSTEM INFO:
Bios version 0155
Bios date: 09/10/2007 (this is after I flashed Bios today. Flashing Bios on EEE Pc is easy).
Software version: EEE PC 1.0

Build info: 2007-09-20 06:00. That means this EEE PC was built like 8 days
ago.

CPU Type: Intel Mobile (900 MHZ)
Memory: 512 MB
Mother Board verion x.xx
Screnn - it is matt and looks and feels like a laptop screen when you bought a laptop 3 years ago.

Wherever I go peoples eyes are glaring. I better watch or it gets lost;-)
It boots fast. YES. The boot time when I received it new was something like 20 seconds. The EEE has special verison of Linux (made by Xandros).
.. You might remember Xandros signed a strategic aggreement with Windows. So no wonder that this laptop can run Windows as well as Linux.
The desktop (GUI) linux comes in two flavors. One is simplified (with big icons for email, gmail, gaim, firefox, Open office, player etc… It is very easy to understand. This desktop is for kids, and new computer users. The other flavor is Normal (full) desktop mode. This mode is like any other Windows mode or KDE. It is actually based on KDE and looks like any other Linux.
Switching between both modes is easy. But it requires restart (20 seconds ordeal).

I didn’t test the battery yet (I just got the PC today). It is little bit warm. Not hot, but the tiny fan is running. The screen resolution is OK, the colors are OK. Don’t expect high definition. This is a small device and a relatively low priced subnotebook. OK, what else, camera is so-so. The sound is perhaps some complain. Even using Headphones, the sound level is low. But this might be application dependend. So for example listening to anything in Firefox - the sound level was too low. Playing some games installed - the sound was OK.

A bug:
I discovered already a bug in EEE. If I wan to use external mouse (USB) and plug in and then plug out at some point, the touch pad and keyboard stops working. If I plug in the mouse again, it works, but the touchpad and keyboard don’t. To get both working again, I have to shut down the EEE, take out the battery for a few seconds and then restart (to be honest, this is not a nightmare, it only takes like 20 seconds
Not sure why this behavior.

The EEE color (white) is nice.

Another thing - If you shut down the eee into stand-by mode, the laptop will still remain hot. Not quite sure why. I thought the system sleeps. But this laptop keeps relatively warm in stand by mode. Which is OK in winter, when it’s freezing.

The screen doesn’t tilt to 180 degrees (flat). Why? Because it is heavier than the keyboard. So limiting the tilt angle you prevent it from flipping over;-)

The button (which is actually a double button) on the touchpad is little bit tricky. Not easy to handle. Also, it is pretty loud. Oh my… It pretty much sucks… It is noisy. Click Click Click….

The touchpad itself is great.

EEE has 3 USB ports. Not 4. I don’t know who saw EEE with 4 ports but this one has 3.

Multicard reader is great. I plugged in my SD card from my Nokia phone. EEE didn’t recognize it however. I guess because it is not formatted properly. More testing needed for this.

Microphone is underneath the touchpad from the bottom. There might be another one besides the camera. I am not sure about this.

The hinge - perfect. Perfectly tight. Closes good and easy. Good job ASUS.

Bottom - there is a cover. Under the cover there is 1 DDR II 512 MB memory. This seems to be a standard laptop memory that you can replace. (Correct me if I am wrong) .. I believe Max is 1 GB. Besides memory there is Express card slot. This could be used for anything, like a GSM or 3G card or even a memory module. I read a post that said there are already 32 GB express cards coming on the market.

By the way, it is very easy to set up a 3G or HSDPA connection when you have the card. This can be setup in control panel.

The keyboard. The keyboard looks like a sugar candy. I’d like to eat it. Not that I would have masochistic desires, but the keboard really look like made out of sugar. Typing - well - some nightmare. But probably I need to get used to this. My fingers are like XXXL size, so you might find typing OK. One very negative thing about this keyboard is that is relatively noisy. So if you are in a quiet room or university lecture, you might be annoying when tying on this keyboard.

There are 3 USB ports, so you might consider plugging in another full size keyboard, if needed. I didn’t try that though. There are many functional keys. The keyboard I have comes with English and small Chinese letters.
The Back-Space button should have been much bigger. Perhaps bigger than the Enter. Because you will make lots of typos on this keyboard. Other than that - the keyboard is a little bit swimming. So it’s not that feel like keyboard is firm in place. But what can you expect for 300 dollar machine??

Application-wise - I didn’t have much time to discover this but couple of intersting things:
Software update - it’s easy. There is a utility that you can start and update your software. So far, there is not much to update, just the BIOS.
Skype. Hmmm. I wonder how will be the quality. Need to test this as well.
Games - nice set of sweet games.
Media Player - SMPlayer comes preinstalled.
There are other typical KDE applications.
Comes with an antivirus (from Xandros, the maker of this Linux distro)
The software takes lots of space. There is only like 1.3 GB left out of 4 GB for my files. Of course I can use SD or MMC cards or express canrd but.. anyway. There might be a way to put it on a diet by uninstalling some applications? Not sure I didn’t try that yet.
Also I am not clear about how to the complete system backup of this laptop.

The EEE I have has a Webcam. I attempted to start the Web Cam application that came with the machine, but it doesn’t start. Not sure why.
The carger. It looks nice (like some LG and Samsung laptop chargers). The power cord is long enough (thanks ASUS).

The power cord plugs from the back of the EEE. ..Which I don’t like, but this is a matter of preference. I think it can break easily and it would be better if it is on the side. But this is a matter of preference, I guess.
And that’s probably all I have to say. I think many people will love EEE PC and some of them will find that after intial excitement this PC is simply too small and thus a useless gadget that due to low price became a staple and thus a must-have shelf sitter.
If you need extreem mobility and always access to your stuff, work, school, internet, WIFI, movies on subway, then you are going to like EEE PC.
Hope this helps and good luck to buy yours soon. I hope Asus is not going to postpone the release date until after xmas.
Greetings from Canada.
Polocanada"


Now it's been delayed to mid-October. Asus says it's so they can include more software and work out the kinks. I say let 'em. I'd rather have a finished product than a rushed one.
Sep 30th, 2007 09:35 PM
MLE oh god i want one ;< ;< ;<
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