Quick Asus eee review

[Rustic23]

I saw one at Microcenter.

 

[dex]

They are hot sellers.
I made a mistake before - I'm running the basic program - Linix base and it works fine.
I didn't add any additional memory yet.
I have 1gig free of the 4 gig that comes with it.
I might have to get additional memory for the podcasts I like to listen to while traveling.
I might want to get additional memory to store my photos while traveling.
Microcenter has a 8gig USB stick for about $30
Micro Center Online - the center of .computer shopping

 

[Billy]

Because of the amount of ram, I disabled the swap files which freed up 1 gig on the HD.

Thanks for the link there is a lot of good info there.

Billy
RetireEarlyLifestyle.com

 

[Rustic23]

HP's UMPC 2133 revealed - Engadget

This was back in Feb. There has been some more on it recently. Looks like HP is looking at geting in the small laptop business. Will have to see if they try to compete on price.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

I think thats based on this
Intel unveils new Classmate PCs - Yahoo! News

as the EEE was based on the original Classmate spec and reference design. Asus will have something similar, and the price points should be around $500-600 for the higher end stuff. Units based on the new Atom cpu will be around in the fourth quarter. About twice the horsepower in a smaller, cooler, lower power draw package.

I imagine this might submarine the prices on the existing Asus units since they just "Osborned" their 4 and 8GB line, which cost almost as much yet have a smaller screen and less power.

Some people never learn...