The Netbook Thread

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:46 pm 0

Firefox wrote:That's not much of a price hike really, given the value of the dollar at the moment.

$199 to $369 for the announced 4GB, 4 cell base model. Asus has only
kept close to the original price by dropping features. It also seems that
the Menlow platform from Intel will be available before Asus starts large
scale manufacturing. I suspect that we're not going to see many of the
$229 models sold at all, and that Asus will concentrate on the second
generation one. Not that that is a bad thing if the price is reasonable,
Menlow is a far more suitable design for such a product.

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:01 am 0

Update: They're on NCIX.

ASUS Eee PC700 Celeron M 7IN 800X480 WLAN 10/100 DDR2 256MB 2GB LAN Linux Black Notebook
(Eee700/2G/256M) (25881) $284.99
2 ASUS Eee PC700 Celeron M 7IN 800X480 WLAN LAN DDR2 512MB 4GB LAN Linux Camera Black Notebook W/ Bag (Eee700/4G/512M/Camera/Black) (25885) $439.99
3 ASUS Eee PC700 Celeron M 7IN 800X480 WLAN LAN DDR2 256MB 2GB LAN Linux Camera Black Notebook W/ Bag (Eee700/2G/256M/Camera/Black) (25884) $329.99
4 ASUS Eee PC700 Celeron M 7IN 800X480 WLAN LAN DDR2 512MB 4GB LAN Linux Camera White Notebook W/ Bag (Eee700/4G/512M/Camera/White) (25905) $439.99
5 ASUS Eee PC700 Celeron M 7IN 800X480 WLAN LAN DDR2 256MB 2GB LAN Linux Camera White Notebook W/ Bag (Eee700/2G/256M/Camera/White) (25903) $329.99

Needs more flash storage, but I can always attach a teeny external hard drive.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:22 am 0

$110 for 256M DRAM and 2G of flash? That's taking the piss and no mistake.

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:37 am 0

Is the memory soldered to the boards or something? Ditto for the 2gb flash ram.

I'm sure 15 quid covers 256mb of DDR 333/400 so-dimms last time I bought some

Still 125 quid + postage is cheap, libretto 110CTs go for more than that on ebay

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:00 pm 0

Only a 3 hour battery? :-/

Far too short for me that, it would be down to 2 hours within a year of purchase knowing me too.

wanye · Post by **wanye** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:44 am 0

hmm. NCIX have removed them from their listings (again)

http://www.eeeuser.com/

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:12 pm 0

The Russians have gotten their hands on a prototype.

Important facts:

It's black
The insides are... just a mainboard. I know it's flash but this is so weird to me.
Screen doesn't look that bad.
900MHz ULV Celerino
512MB RAM
802.11b/g

Me still wanty.

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:52 pm 0

Hmmm, smaller than I thought it would be looking at these videos featuring actual human hands:

(Translated French article)

That's not a bad thing, though. Always wanted a Psion Series 7 back in the day...

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 12:46 pm 0

Hmmm, informative piccy of one resting on top of a (rather grubby) Macbook. Plus, a piccy of the hither-to unseen memory and PCIe expansion slots on the bottom!

http://unicap-imaging.org/unicap_eeepc.htm

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:06 pm 0

Firefox wrote:

Hmmm, informative piccy of one resting on top of a (rather grubby) Macbook. Plus, a piccy of the hither-to unseen memory and PCIe expansion slots on the bottom!

http://unicap-imaging.org/unicap_eeepc.htm

site wrote:

The display has a resolution of 800x480 pixels and a size of 7''. It is controlled by an Intel GMA 915 on-board controller. Compositing should be possible with this controller ( but it is not enabled with the default OS ). Also accelerated video is available via Xv.

My father was a compositor, it was a skilled trade in the newspaper industry before computers were brought in. WTF does "compositing" mean in the context of the Asus eee PC?

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:15 pm 0

Superimposing layers of graphics on top of each other? *shrug*

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:19 pm 0

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:52 pm 0

Firefox wrote:Superimposing layers of graphics on top of each other? *shrug*

I guess it means hardware accelerated desktop compositing. So Compiz Fusion then. Which after fiddling with it quite a bit is actually lovely

Cheers

Bubba

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:12 pm 0

Asus updated the Eee website... as well it looks like they've made reference to an Eee 801 eight inch model.

A lot of reviews are also flowing in. I hope the release date is soon, but apparently they want to wait until the end of October to improve the software.

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:53 pm 0

Firefox wrote:Hmmm, informative piccy of one

Firefox wrote:Hmmm, smaller than I thought it would be

Hmmm, perhaps I should fucking read my previous posts before posting again...

Any road up, some more hands-on reviews (the first is actually pretty informative if you wade through the machine-translated Chinese):

http://www.eeeuser.com/2007/09/30/two-r ... en-eee-pc/

Still quite excited about it!