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

Oxy said:
If you run linux & have the SSD then its a none issue.

I understand what your saying I'm personnally waiting on what the competition offers and certainly want one with ATom CPU & a SSD running ubuntu.
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you're better off running a more streamlined distro than ubuntu on the eeepc.

i ran a dual boot of arch + XP on the SSD of my 701 before i sold it and had gnome + compiz working at very respectable performance with 2gb, dollars to donuts ubuntu would have been quite a bit slower with the eye candy.

i personally think the 901 is too expensive for the specs compared to the 701, if they'd actually improved the battery instead of making it worse i might have a different opinion but stumping up for a new battery straight away just pushes the price to stupid levels really.
 
JUNE THIRD IS THE launch date of the Asus’s new Atom-based Eee PC 901, which will also have Bluetooth for the first time.

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lol few posts too late.
 
Do any of these UMPCs come with an inbuilt DVD drive - I know its an ask but it would be so useful. Those people with an eeePC - have you missed the DVD drive?

Thanks

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
I didnt miss a dvd drive. I dont have one in my pc atm :) Havnt since christmas time lol :D

But I am trying to get a slot laptop drive, just for a media pc and so I can install conan -.-
 
marscay said:
you're better off running a more streamlined distro than ubuntu on the eeepc.

i ran a dual boot of arch + XP on the SSD of my 701 before i sold it and had gnome + compiz working at very respectable performance with 2gb, dollars to donuts ubuntu would have been quite a bit slower with the eye candy.

i personally think the 901 is too expensive for the specs compared to the 701, if they'd actually improved the battery instead of making it worse i might have a different opinion but stumping up for a new battery straight away just pushes the price to stupid levels really.
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yeh i might get arch running, got it working on my desktop and was well quick.
 
Just got XP up and running on a 4gig SHDC card for Dad's Eee 701. Not as slow as I feared it might be, to be honest.

Have got everything required on it now, just doing an O&O Defrag with the NAME method to see if it speeds up the booting at all.
 
trouble with the MSI is it has no SSD :mad: and the XP version has superior specs to the linux which sucks for those of us who like to save cash on the MS license and layout the hdd as we see fit.

6-cell battery on the xp and 3-cell on the linux (if the reports are to be believed)...meh
 
Just picked up a EEE 900 just in time for the 901 to come out :eek:

Purchased the linux version as it had the larger storage and then installed XP with SP3 on to it with no problems.

My new EEE reminds me of my old Tosh Libretto 70CT

http://www.isi.edu/~brian/libretto/

The only downside is that the unit contains 2 drives one 4GB and one 15GB this means that I have had to change some defaults to get XP onto the 4GB drive - this is what I have done

Change the location of "Program Files"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Keys: CommonFilesDir & ProgramFilesDir

Note I changed this directly after installation and I copied and left the original "c:\program files" location in tact. This is so I did not have to spend ages changing exisisting shortcuts and registry entries. All new programms will install to where ever e.g d:\program files.

Change the location of "My Documents"

Right click "my documets" and enter the new location e.g d:\mydocuments

Change the location of the page file

Note To change the location of the page file I had to set the size to 0 rather than clicking "no page file" for drive C: if you do not do this it will not turn off the page fille on c: it will re-enable on reboot.

Turn off "system restore"

Control panel/system/system restore.

or if you prefer reduce the size of disk space used on c I have set mine to 5%

Change the location of windows temp folders

Control panel/system/advanced/enviroment setteings

change Temp and TMP

e.g change to d:\temp

backup and then delete $Uninstall folders

from "c:\program files"

do not delete the $hf_mig$ folder.

change the location of IE temporary files

Internet options/general tab/browsing history
 
I am totally shocked by the life of the standard 4400Mah batterey on my new EEE 900 it lasts just over 1hr with wireles enabled.

I have seen a 5200mAh a 6600mA and a 10400mAh battery, is anyone using one of these? If so how long do you get?

Cheers
 
superplay said:
I am totally shocked by the life of the standard 4400Mah batterey on my new EEE 900 it lasts just over 1hr with wireles enabled.
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I may be missing something here, but surely there's something seriously wrong with these batteries. I had a Fujitsu Siemens laptop with 17" screen and that lasted around 2 hrs on a 2000 mAh battery. My Vostro 1500 does 3 hrs on a 5600 mAh battery.
 
im slowly letting my head rule my geeky heart.

I get the impression that the battery life on these little things are pap. My look at a 13" mac or a lappy at the £350 range.
 
Eee 900# and XP SP3 sluggish performance

Hi Folks

I Have a 900 model running XP SP3 and the general performnce is sluggish.

Is this caused by SP3, anyone else using it?

Cheers
 
I may have improved the sluggisheness of my eee PC. I moved the page file from drive C to D however D is a slower drive.

I have re-created a 1024MB page file on C and removed it from D. Seems to have improved things a bit.

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Most prices are still above £200.
Would have thought with the 900 out the 701`s would have gone down.

Shame as Im looking for one around £150
 
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