Laptops :: Asus Eee PC Laptop

Asus EEE in Czech Republic is very expensive toy

I thought I buy one, but 4GB HDD 512MB RAM and about 9 665CZK which is aroud 553$ (17,47 CZK for 1$) thats incredible :-(
I will stay with my old, heavy notebook. (Recently updated to DSL 4.2.5 and works like a charm

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Now that it is known that the eeePC 4x modules really run at 633Mhz and that the 2G runs at 533Mhz. The older lappies look like and even better option. Just price some 600Mhz or 500Mhz on ebay. At the Scale conference we has a Sony Picturebook running. It is a 600Mhz/128MB machine and it is nearly identical in size with the eee. On the picturebook the 1024x480 wide screen, builtin camera, sound, and even jog wheel all work with DSL and performance is great.

I've heard the eee runs fairly hot and relies heavily on the built-in fan. This is really uncool (heh, couldn't resist it), as
not only is it not totally silent but leeches the battery life.

However, from the wiki,

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ASUS plans to introduce second-generation Eee PCs in April 2008, featuring Intel’s Merom processors. The new design will reduce power consumption by 36%, from 11 W TDP to 7 W TDP. ASUS may also remove the fan to further reduce power consumption and noise

this would make it more interesting.

Quote (roberts @ Feb. 14 2008,20:49)

>At the Scale conference we has a Sony Picturebook running. It is a 600Mhz/128MB machine and it is nearly identical in size with the eee. On the picturebook the 1024x480 wide screen, builtin camera, sound, and even jog wheel all work with DSL and performance is great.

As I own both of them, a Sony Vaio C1VE (192 MB) and an Asus Eee PC, I can´t confirm this

The Picturebox runs o.k. after some tweaking with X11 or Xorg on DSL but it is far away from the plug and play system on the Eee PC. Networking and printing on the Eee is great. Performance is superior to the C1 even with full desktop mode and KDE. For a very short time I had Xubuntu on my Picturebook and it was a pain in the a...
But comparison is not really fair because the Sony is a rather old construction with a weak cpu :;):

The limited ram of the picturebook make it an unfair comparison. Try limiting your eeePC to 128MB and watch performance. If only I had 512MB for my picturebook.

I was using an XFree86.unc so to maximize available ram.
We had the camera running and playing Youtube videos with sound. It, the picturebook, was a booth magnet.

The eeePC being very new hardware requires newer kernel and specialized modules. Such software is magnitudes larger. Still the tweaks that Asus made for very fast boot time and shutdown is indeed very nice. For the price point and capabilities it is a nice machine.

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