Dan Wood wrote:Don't you just need an EEE PC and some velcro?
As far as laptops go, they're cheap as chips!
I got one for Christmas and its brilliant!
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powelly wrote:Dan Wood wrote:Don't you just need an EEE PC and some velcro?
As far as laptops go, they're cheap as chips!
I got one for Christmas and its brilliant!
ringo wrote:powelly wrote:Dan Wood wrote:Don't you just need an EEE PC and some velcro?
As far as laptops go, they're cheap as chips!
I got one for Christmas and its brilliant!
Can you please explain why? I cant see whats so good about them. They arent that cheap.
Must have its good point cause people are raving about them - but what are they?
Ringo
powelly wrote: OK.
To me the point of the eee is portability, I have a desktop for pure processing power with multiple monitors for screen real estate, I also have a 15 laptop that I used to carry when I needed it.
Now the eee is small, I mean really small, its the site of a hard back book and weighs less than a bag of sugar, so its small enough to drop in to whatever back I have with me and forget about it.
Your saying its not that cheap but I'm assuming at £200 your comparing it to cheap traditional laptops, but this isnt a fair comparison, you need to put it side by side with a UMPC (ultra mobile pc)like one of these There you will see the closest equivalent is a £400 obsolete model of the OQO.
Out of the box this thing just works, the flavour or linux installed will do everything you need for internet, office etc, However if your more used to windows all is not lost. a little tinkering around and you will soon have windows XP running, (i have xp, office 2007 and dreamweaver on mine).
Spec wise it does seem quite low, but the solid state hard disk makes all the difference, this is much faster that any standard hard drive and really does make up for the slow processor and small ram (this can be upgraded).
So for £200 you get a full working totally portable pc that will fit in your glove box or even a large coat pocket. What more could you want?
Oh and there is a nice hack to get the screen up to 1024 by 768!
ringo wrote:Very interesting - thanks for that.
So if you install windows XP on it, does it use most of the memory?
ringo wrote:
Do you think you could put car related apps on - like Satnav
and a reversing camera?. With only two usb slots i suppose thats all it could do (no other usb to access an external hard drive for music and divx etc.).
ringo wrote:
Does it come with a remote control ?
Thanks
Ringo
lloyd wrote:Bigger screen, bigger SSD (software on my notebook is 3GB), keyboard that normal size hands fit, longer battery life, etc. What is CPU speed anyway? Can't find it in specs.
Does this apply if using a 12v supply to laptop?Other-Power wrote:Only problem i can see from it happerning to me is, when a laptop or pc is powered via an inverter then a gps device thats plugged in via usb etc will not work due to the inverter.
Just a heads up
Jon