***The Official Asus Eee PC Thread***

with the current BIOS 3D performance is a tad bad - tho quake 3 plays smooth enough with all settings maxed it averages 30fps :( with the proper clock speed and updated BIOS it should run closer to double that... when/if asus decide to release a proper update BIOS and not a very buggy beta.
 
Apparently there is 2 PCI-E slots in the Eee, The one they removed you can always solder your stuff to and the other is were the built in WIFI is plugged into so if you dont need the wifi you could always put something else in it :D

The 30GB hard drive mod looks interesting on the Eee forums also cant wait for mine to be delivered :p
 
pc-modd said:
Apparently there is 2 PCI-E slots in the Eee, The one they removed you can always solder your stuff to and the other is were the built in WIFI is plugged into so if you dont need the wifi you could always put something else in it :D

The 30GB hard drive mod looks interesting on the Eee forums also cant wait for mine to be delivered :p
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Its not removed on all UK models, my white one has it soldered on still. Mainly sounds like the black ones are missing it.
 
I got one, installed XP, Office XP and a few others bits. It leave me with about 1.4GB disk space. Its a white one that has the internal mini pci-e port. I put an Intel wifi card in there so I can roam on our work wlan.

I read today that someone managed to get OS-X on it, so today I have ghosted my XP installation onto a usb pen and I'll have a go at putting that on next week.

I've plugged my 40GB USB2 ide drive onto it, and it works fine, doesnt even need the 2xUSBs to power it.

I might get a 8GB SDHC card down the road when they get cheaper, as that'll be good for storing a lot of avi's for when Im away from home.
 
whilst waiting for my 8gb sdhc card to arrive, i have a 2gb sdcard could i stick ubuntu onto that? big enough?
is there a guide on how to install onto sd card would have to do this via my main pc mind you as i have NO external dvd/cd drive.

ideas?
 
I just had a look at a big online retailer and they said it's been discontinued. Wonder what's going on there.

I've talked our company into getting a test unit in. We're considering giving our staff one each, would save us a hell of a lot seeing as all our software costs nearly as much as the Eee PC.
 
Wonder if its just stock availablilty - I notice another place has no listing of them any more either - or it might be the fact that the advertised specifications are wrong - possibly illegally so.
 
ooof tried to install XP on it (to another drive) and the boot loaders linux (original) and XP install didn't co-exist at all... ended up removing the original linux install as it was much easier than playing around with a work around.
 
Can you plug the XP'd eeepc into an external monitor ok?
At the moment, its connected at 1680x1050 and its running silent, total silence. Incredible.
Plus the whole thing is using less leccy than the graphics card on idle consumes.
 
Can anyone tell me if this can cope with video playback including hd video through a 37" LCD. This sounds exactly like what I want, but not sure it would handle movie playback which is what it would mainly be used for.
 
mark35 said:
will these work with a nas
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Yes - I've got mine set up with my Buffalo Linkstation and it works fine.

The only issue I've got is that the wireless connection takes about 30 seconds to initialise after it's booted. If I map a folder to the NAS it tries to reconnect it before the wireless connection is established and gives an error message because it can't find it.
 
Aslong as your NAS uses conventional network filesharing rather than using proprietary software then it will work fine - some NAS boxes require a software client on any PCs connected to it to work - and not all of them have linux versions so you'd need to run windows in those cases...

To get windows booting on this thing it would seem you need to either use some 3rd party hacked XP install or follow this guide as almost all media you can attach to the device requires a USB interface:

http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176

I advise just copying the disc to a folder, doing the modifications and copying back, then copying the entire lot to a pen drive or similiar to run it from rather than trying to re-burn the ISO.

You'll probably still run into the issue of creating a swapfile as windows refuses to use one from a removable drive...
 
ooof again installing windows XP on a device that can't sustain more than 9.3MB/s and struggles with lots of small files isn't the smartest move... its just a little sloooooooooow.
 
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