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

A few years ago I had two tower PCs with fanless heatsinks ons the CPU and video card. They were relatively quite and fast enough to run XP for surfing email and general office work.

Now I have a faster tower running XP or vista (dual boot) and a Shuttle - both are faster but relatively noisy.

If I consigned the tower to another room - it's stuffed full of hard drives, I could go back to utter silence in the study.

Fanless PCs are relatively expensive, the Macmini, I am told is quiet even for its fan, but there are various diskless and fanless linux boxes that might cheaply do what I want in utter silence and network to the tower PC hidden away.

I have even been looking at the Asus eeePC which, with an external monitor could be a good deal. Cheaper than *competitor*, and you can pick it up and walk with it.

What are the display resolutions with the eeePC, and can I display different things on the internal and external screen at the same time?

What other options are there?
 
We got these in work today and I am seriously impressed. I really, really want one but don't know if I should hold out for the black version or not. Perfect for chucking in my bag and taking to uni. Is £219 the cheapest price?
 
matthew_o50 said:
We got these in work today and I am seriously impressed. I really, really want one but don't know if I should hold out for the black version or not. Perfect for chucking in my bag and taking to uni. Is £219 the cheapest price?
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Id wait for the black, i have a black one and another person on my course has the white one and it looks like a toy haha
 
peetee said:
could wait till after xmas for the 8gb ones with bigger/higher res screen and dual core!
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Got a link for that? Last time I looked it was going to be identical to the 4G but with more memory/SSD.

The 10" dont appear to be happening...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
ps3ud0 said:
Got a link for that? Last time I looked it was going to be identical to the 4G but with more memory/SSD.

The 10" dont appear to be happening...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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aww really, i thought earlier in thread someone said the 8g was dual core..and that it had the bigger screen instead of having the blank space :(

Id hope such a beast was planned, well maybes without the dual core, a big screen would make it a killer low end laptop, itd whoop the other £300-£350 lappys!
 
J273 said:
I've tried everything on mine to get xp to install.


Im using an app called PetoUSB ...allowing me to rip my nlited version of xp onto the memory stick.But every time i boot form the usb stick it pops up with:

'File \$WIN_NT$.~BT\biosinfo.inf could not be loaded.
The error code is 18
Setup cannot continue.Press any key to exit.'

I've tried everything...2 usb sticks 4 versions of windows including OEM and retail.

and still get the same.

As anyone an idea as to what the problem could be?

Thanks
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Don't know if you got this sorted, but I was getting the exact same error message when trying to install XP from a USB stick.

I gave up in the end, and borrowed an external USB DVD drive and following the instructions in the manual, it went on 1st time.

Installation of XP and Open Office Org takes up just over 1GB after a bit of housekeeping.

The wireless networking worked first time too, it joined my router and I was on the web in no time, something I couldn't get working with the Linux Distro that comes with it.
 
Tooks said:
Don't know if you got this sorted, but I was getting the exact same error message when trying to install XP from a USB stick.

I gave up in the end, and borrowed an external USB DVD drive and following the instructions in the manual, it went on 1st time.

Installation of XP and Open Office Org takes up just over 1GB after a bit of housekeeping.

The wireless networking worked first time too, it joined my router and I was on the web in no time, something I couldn't get working with the Linux Distro that comes with it.
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Yeah..I did the same...gave up with the usb installation and bought a USB external drive.
 
Labarum said:
A few years ago I had two tower PCs with fanless heatsinks ons the CPU and video card. They were relatively quite and fast enough to run XP for surfing email and general office work.

Now I have a faster tower running XP or vista (dual boot) and a Shuttle - both are faster but relatively noisy.

If I consigned the tower to another room - it's stuffed full of hard drives, I could go back to utter silence in the study.

Fanless PCs are relatively expensive, the Macmini, I am told is quiet even for its fan, but there are various diskless and fanless linux boxes that might cheaply do what I want in utter silence and network to the tower PC hidden away.

I have even been looking at the Asus eeePC which, with an external monitor could be a good deal. Cheaper than *competitor*, and you can pick it up and walk with it.

What are the display resolutions with the eeePC, and can I display different things on the internal and external screen at the same time?

What other options are there?
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With the xandros, I can select 1680x1050 which is the native res of the monitor im using. Just a clone display, not extended multiscreen. With XP installed, the drivers allow upto 1600x900 for the same monitor. but allow both clone display and extended multiscreen. Id recommend upgrading the memory to a 1GB stick though. starting up firefox and listening to some music leaves you with 16Mb free under xandros. For XP, you tend to switch off the virtual memory - so having more physical memory is more important.
 
skankmaster said:
Id recommend upgrading the memory to a 1GB stick though. starting up firefox and listening to some music leaves you with 16Mb free under xandros. For XP, you tend to switch off the virtual memory - so having more physical memory is more important.
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Its not actually 16Mb free, linux uses up as much free memory as it can for caching... so you'd have the amount thats in cache also available if needed... iirc it was around 300Mb with firefox and the media player running.
 
"The ASUS Eee PC 4G is about to be joined by another, more expensive model. To the accompaniment of the previous 7" 800x480 display and a 900MHz ULV Celeron processor will come an 8GB SSD and 1GB of DDR2 memory changing the name to ASUS Eee PC 8G. The new 8G model comes at $499 with expected availability in mid to late December. Additionally ASUS will give users to choose between Pearl White or Galaxy Black colors with the 8G. In other Eee PC news, Mobile O1 has posted pictures of the upcoming green model. Unlike the Pearl White and Galaxy Black models, the entire notebook casing is not molded in the same color - instead, only the LCD lid is molded in green while the rest of the body (including the keyboard) is molded in white. The new green option will be joined by a sky blue and pink options in 2008."

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9864
 
Whats the USD pricing of the 4G at launch? Trying to extrapolate what $499 means...

EDIT: Looks like it was around the $349 mark so that worked out to be around £220 in the shops here. At a rough guess then the 8G will be £325-£350

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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Mines arriving today :D

Yeah its known now that there will not be a 10" model. Asus i think underestimated the EEEs popularity and they decided against the 10" model as is would start to compete/takeway from their mainstream laptops.
 
Well what can i say but WOW !

Im posting from it now, i have enabled advanced mode and have skype working with the webcam, it works so well i see no reason to install anothe OS on it, i doubt anything else is more optimised for access and power efficiency etc.

If you have the cash get one of these best 219 you will ever spend
 
The only gripe I have with the skype on it, is its a bit primitive compared to the windows version. No SMS feature! I wonder what else they will bundle with it, now that it is to have 8GB.
 
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