Can't wait to see this if the 10" screens ever arrive!
Fuck me.
I think I might be veering towards a white one now! And it's got a two-button trackpad and semi-sensible keyboard layout, too.
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"I am a very considerate person. If I want to go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards, well, no reason to keep the neighbours awake..."
Can't wait to see this if the 10" screens ever arrive!
Fuck me.
I think I might be veering towards a white one now! And it's got a two-button trackpad and semi-sensible keyboard layout, too.
Having done some research on this it now appears that while the guy got 10.5 running it was pretty slow so he went back to a JaS 10.4.8 install and found it quite usable. Only show stopper so far is no support for the wireless
WiteWulf wrote:Having done some research on this it now appears that while the guy got 10.5 running it was pretty slow so he went back to a JaS 10.4.8 install and found it quite usable. Only show stopper so far is no support for the wireless
I bought my iBook to run Linux - it was the best Linux-capable laptop for my needs back then - and it had a 500MHz G3, 128MB of RAM, and I think about 15GB of hard drive (most of which was free after the install). I gave the early version of MacOS X that came with it a go for a few days, and it ran quite nicely.
So when you compare that to a 900MHz Pentium M, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of flash drive it's not surprising that it runs okay on the EEE Pc, really.
I think if I did go that route I'd probably buy a copy of Leopard just to make it semi-proper.
"I am a very considerate person. If I want to go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards, well, no reason to keep the neighbours awake..."
Aye...minimum spec (processor-wise) is 900MHz for Leopard so it should run fine. I'd imagine it's the gfx that aren't quite up to it (my iBook certainly struggles with some of the eye-candy since upgrading to Leopard).
Oh right! I meant buy a copy of Leopard to salve my conscience and download whatever version of OS X runs best on the EEEPc, but if I could run Leopard then that would be cool.
I normally turn as much eye candy off as I possibly can anyway, and select the plainest themes.
"I am a very considerate person. If I want to go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards, well, no reason to keep the neighbours awake..."
dom wrote:We timed it, it takes about 15 seconds to boot the [default Xandros] OS
Can it do hibernate/S4 to the SSD? How quickly does that start?
It has a suspend mode, which it takes about 5 seconds to return from, I'm not sure whether it suspends to RAM or SSD, though - probably RAM, since the power light flashes when it's suspended.
OMG (or oligodendrocyte myelin glycoprotein) is a molecule found in your central nervous system.
Apparently it doesn't support hibernation with the current Xandros build.
Hopefully that'll be fixed.
One other thing, it seems the PCIe connector has been removed from
some of the shipping systems. Which seems very short-sighted to me,
as it would enable an SSD upgrade.
Hibernation and a fast SSD would be a very nice feature.
Kemper_Boyd wrote:[...]
One other thing, it seems the PCIe connector has been removed from
some of the shipping systems. Which seems very short-sighted to me,
as it would enable an SSD upgrade.
[...]
Fired mine up last night and as I'm not a Linux-user, got into some problems with connecting to my wireless network. After an hour of messing about trying to SEE my network, I figured out that I have to broadcast my SSID or it won't see it. Fine. Then, it kept baulking at my WAP password which it claimed was in an incorrect format. After much tarting about and googling, I found out that you can't have SPACES in your WAP passphrase and it also seemed to only be happy if I included numbers too.
I'm sure all you Linux experts are snarking away at my incompetence but it could've been a bit more helpful in telling me what was going on - I had to search pretty hard in the EEePC forums until I got a hint that spaces were a problem.
Anyways, apart from that and the trackpad "driver" failing once (dunno why that was but it was fixed on the next reboot?) it was all pretty smooth and I managed to get everything else sorted out with no drama. The screen is actually pretty usable given its relatively low resolution and the keyboard isn't bad either. I'm quite impressed really and it will be ideal for my wife who isn't really computer savvy and just wants to surf the net and read emails. Does get hot though...
