The Netbook Thread

oNyx · Post by **oNyx** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:51 am 0

http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=7317

silly flash commercial:
http://event.asus.com/eeepc/

It's a super compact/lightweigt subnotebook and it's all the rage all over the interweb thanks to its ultra low price point of 200$.

I *so* want one. Not really sure why tho, but it's so amazingly cheap that I cannot resist.

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:20 am 0

Hmmm....it says XP compatible, but is listed as running Linux, how compatible is compatible if we talk about games? I'd want one for games aswell as the other stuff but it does look very cool, lets see how long till we brits get a crack at it though.

oNyx · Post by **oNyx** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:21 am 0

Well, it's a usual x86 thingy. The CPU will be most likely some Pentium-M spin off (A100 or A110) @ 600MHz or 800MHz, which takes about 3watts. So, everything which is fine with a Thunderbird with ~1.2ghz should run about fine.

On the GPU side there will be most likely something like the GMA900. The fillrate is 1.3gt/s, which means it's somewhere between a gf2mx classic/400 with about 0.7gt/s and a gf2gts with 1.6gt/s. It also can do pixel shader 2.0 and vertex shader 2.0 (the latter only in software tho). It supports opengl 1.4 and dx9.

The build-in display will most likely use 800x480 (thats 5:3, which the same as 16:9.6).

Well, all those details are pretty speculative at this point. So, take it with a handful of salt.

New AAA games clearly won't work, but older stuff (eg quake3 engine based games) or 2D games may run fine.

edit: Oh and there are some rumors that the GMA950 will be used, which is pretty much the same just higher clocked. So, you get 1.6gt/s instead of 1.3gt/s.

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:25 am 0

That's basically the kind of games I would run on it, the odd Â£5 budget game and some old classics same as on my tablet PC which only has Intel 8xx graphics.

It is a cracking little machine, and if they get the word spread it could be a new Libretto for the 21st century

Cute looking thing too!

oNyx · Post by **oNyx** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:36 am 0

Heh. Well, the word *is* spreading like crazy. By the looks of it they rather need to produce 2,000,000 instead of 200,000 initially. I hope I can get mine asap

I'll put Linux on mine. Always wanted to get used to Linux a bit... but I couldn't be arsed to install it on my main machine... or in parallel. And those live CDs/DVDs are just plain annoying. So, this is the perfect chance.

I always wanted a notebook, but I couldn't justify spending that much money on one. I mean... I don't need one that badly. But 200 bucks? My monthly health insurance rate is higher than that.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:39 am 0

oNyx wrote:Heh. Well, the word *is* spreading like crazy. By the looks of it they rather need to produce 2,000,000 instead of 200,000 initially. I hope I can get mine asap

I'll put Linux on mine. Always wanted to get used to Linux a bit... but I couldn't be arsed to install it on my main machine... or in parallel. And those live CDs/DVDs are just plain annoying. So, this is the perfect chance.

I always wanted a notebook, but I couldn't justify spending that much money on one. I mean... I don't need one that badly. But 200 bucks? My monthly health insurance rate is higher than that.

But 200 bucks? My monthly health insurance rate is higher than that

and my teenage daughter expects this and more every month

oNyx · Post by **oNyx** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:47 am 0

So, you'll get one, too?

DTB · Post by **DTB** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:20 am 0

I'm in

, I lust after apples smallest mobile offerings but need something alot cheaper this would let me play commandos and keep a library of business and multimedia tools with me all the time.

Any retailers taking preorders that you know of?.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:35 am 0

By cracky. That's pretty much exactly what I've been looking for at exactly the price I was hoping to pay.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:07 am 0

if that's really $200 it falls squarely into the "it'd be silly not to, really" category and they'd better be making a hell of a lot of them

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gravy · Post by **gravy** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:08 am 0

Yeah I like the look of that too with some nice Linux on it. Anyone know when it's out?

EDIT

Ah August

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2007/06/asus-eee-pc-701/

Hands on here:

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Han ... SUS%5FEee/

Baggypants · Post by **Baggypants** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:23 am 0

This or the Palm Folio?

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:33 am 0

Yak wrote:if that's really $200 it falls squarely into the "it'd be silly not to, really" category and they'd better be making a hell of a lot of them .

Yes, and yes.

The 16G one will cost quite a bit more I guess, and I'll probably need at least the 8 gig ($299) to get XP on to it with enough apps to be useful. Looks like it has an SD card slot though so it might be possible to get the basic one and just expand with cards as they get cheaper.

What's a standard XP install take up nowadays?

Al · Post by Al » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:57 am 0

Dio wrote:What's a standard XP install take up nowadays?

I've got a pretty much blank XP virtual machine setup for Parallels on my Mac and the hard drive has 2Gb occupied.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:01 am 0

Ta. Is that with the swap file? I'm presuming it doesn't include a hibernate file. Reckon 8G is going to be the sweet spot...