Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Asus Eee PC
I've been thinking about getting an Asus Eee PC. It runs Linux and has a solid state hard disk. I'd really like to get the 8G model, but at $499, it starts to get pricy. If it had a higher resolution display, I'd buy it immediately, but lately, I've been thinking more about getting the cheap $299 2G model. The first thing I'd do is backup the Xandros disk image with PBA and then start experimenting with other distros.
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I had one 4G SSD Eee PC, you don't need backup the image file, ASUS had included one restore DVD, you can restore OS anytime
That's awesome. Thanks.
This looks interesting:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home
I have the 900 model which came with a 20 gb HDD and 1 gb RAM and can run Windows XP. The box has a restore disk for the ASUS Linux OS and a drivers disk for Windows XP.
I played with live CDs of various Linuxes (is that a word?) specifically- Puppy, DSL, Ubuntu 8.04. All ran fine but none would use the Wireless or sound. There may have been other drivers that didn't work as well but I was just playing and didn't take the time to really make it work.
I actually like the default OS. It's not too shabby! It runs really really well and I can get 3-4 hours of use out of the battery for web stuff. The EEE PC sees USB drives really well and I have an external USB DVDRW. Both work flawlessly. The default OS appears to be built on Xandros.
Complaints- none really. The keyboard is very tiny and hard to type on. Not so much because it's tiny, but because it's keys are hard to push. Much more so than a normal laptop. There isn't a good image editing tool.
I haven't tried to install anything yet. As I said, it has everything I need to use for now!
I would recommend this laptop to a student who needs portability. As for a power user like me who does photos and advanced networking stuff- it would need a little tweaking but it's so dang cute I can't resist loving it!
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