Asus Eee PC!!

ukgaz · 12th February 2008

Has anyone purchased these yet? seen quite a lot of good reviews out, there, tempted to get one so whilst out on data floor be a lot easier when working with tickets.

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aguk · 12th February 2008

Just saw one in a friends shop. He sold 20 of them over xmas I think he sad. He had been installing XP on them.

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aXeR · 12th February 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by aguk

Just saw one in a friends shop. He sold 20 of them over xmas I think he sad. He had been installing XP on them.

I can't see why you would want to install XP on them, would make it pretty darn slow as they are only around 1Ghz IIRC.

In answer to the OP though, they seem like a good idea but they in my opinion, they are not as practical as a laptop due to the tiny screen and cramped keyboard which has a rather cheap feel to it!

danfoster · 12th February 2008

They're fab, we bought a couple for the datacentre, great for doing tickets on and the battery lasts a while with it being solid state storage. Sad to report we put Windows on them, but they are still surprisingly quick for the spec of them. I don't think they'd cope with Vista somehow!

pipeten · 12th February 2008

I got one before heading off to a'dam as I'd much rather lose a ~£ 200 bit of hardware opposed to a £ 1.5k laptop. I was pleasantly surprised but can't say I've used it a lot since, it's in the DC but I usually have a macbook/other with me anyway.

If you've not got one now, I'd wait and see how v2 works out. From what I've seen a lot of people will make the switch to v2 meaning that you might nab a v1 even cheaper if it still fits your needs.

vaserv · 12th February 2008

I use one when I wander down to BSQ so next time I'm down you can have a poke but they are great little DC machines and they just work.

alexcf · 12th February 2008

Yeah, a client just bought a load, said they were pretty neat bits of kit for the money... They've promised me one, so I'm just awaiting it's arrival!

FantomFreak · 15th February 2008

was just taking a look on aria, noticed one in the special offer section

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=29928

If you decided you wanted one Gaz

othellotech · 15th February 2008

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=129271

I had one intending to keep it in a rack in Amsterdam, but hated it - my fingers are way too fat to be able to type at anything other than single characters on the (IMHO nasty) keyboard.

The linux was ok once you switched to KDE from the child-friendly o/s it comes with.

I couldnt get it to talk to the APC's over serial (tried several usb-serial cables), yet it was fine talking to the switches.

Overall a usefull toy, but the thing was so slow as to be unusable doing anything other than browsing the web, checking email (could be better on the later models, mine was 512Mb with 2Gb SSD version) - definately not something for serious / regular use.

Internet access by WiFi was very good, webmail (roundcube) worked perfectly - I'd say actually *quicker* than using my desktop, downside was
lots of problems using the browser with anything using heavy javascript - which included our ticket systems and our live-chat.

The Nokia N700/800 has the same JavaScript issues, and a lot of websites on that simply show a blank page, so it's simply that there are a lot of site relying either on IE or IE compatibility of PC Firefox still.

Weights the same as my Sony ultranote CX1, but is bigger due to the trackpad, but I'll stick to a "real" laptop for most things - i just felt overall that I'd end up breaking it either by being heavy handed or out of sheer frustration of yet another thing not working quite as I'd expect.

Another thing I cant type on is the OQO - they're just not quite raised enough for my
http://www.expansys.com/video.aspx?id=8&i=129271
however its a tiny "full" laptop and had no compatibility issues.

Took that back and invested in an HTC Shift - now I need to upgrade my glasses as I'm having to use the magnifier tool constantly.

Sadly I've just sent it back with a screen fault (as in I crushed it on the side of a rack) - as thats ideal to just leave in the DC.

SynergyWorks · 15th February 2008

Im very tempted by one and buying a 3G/USB stick to go with it.

FH - Tim · 17th February 2008

I was having a look at the Eee, but now I've read Rob's post I want that HTC Shift instead....

CrystalVPS · 17th February 2008

our local PC world has an EEE Pc on display, dunno if your local one will? but I had a quick play on one and wasn't impressed

uk2.net · 21st February 2008

got one - love it!