The Netbook Thread

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:12 pm 0

Â£220 inc? Bargain of the century.

wanye · Post by **wanye** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:42 am 0

fucknuts, got my wages, and my shift bonuses havent been paid. that Â£240 extra was what i was going to get the eee with this month

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:04 am 0

Tyke wrote:Stock just in, get one quick!

http://www.microanvika.com/search.asp?keywords=asu14450

...and all gone already, next stock in 2 weeks, apparently.

Tyke · Post by **Tyke** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:57 pm 0

I cancelled by order with Micro Anvika after finding out they didnt have any stock

These guys do have stock as of this second http://www.misco.co.uk

wanye · Post by **wanye** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:10 pm 0

Tyke wrote:I cancelled by order with Micro Anvika after finding out they didnt have any stock

These guys do have stock as of this second http://www.misco.co.uk

fuck it.

*yoink*

dont forget 5% quidco cashback on misco orders

*edit*
ordered. assuming they arent lying, i shall have it tomorrow!

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:39 pm 0

The latest PC World catalogue has the 2GB Eee at Â£199 with the
words coming soon alongside. Anyone thinking about getting an
Eee will be able to go in and have a look soon enough.

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:48 pm 0

Do any of you guys who are closely following the news know when the promised XP version will be released?

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:51 pm 0

I doubt they'll ever sell it with XP pre-loaded but the current model comes with an XP driver disk so you can load on a copy you already own

wanye · Post by **wanye** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:35 pm 0

it would seem scan.co.uk also have them in stock now

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:35 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:I doubt they'll ever sell it with XP pre-loaded but the current model comes with an XP driver disk so you can load on a copy you already own

Yeah I was aware you could do it yourself but as it's for someone else I was looking for the simplest possible solution.

There are several news articles suggesting it is going to happen though.

Microsoft hopes to tap into the growing excitement in the ultra-low cost laptop space, but Asustek won't launch an Eee PC with Windows XP on board until the end of this year.
...
Asustek showed off one Eee PC running Microsoft Windows XP Professional, version 2002, service pack 2. The hardware on board was the same as for the NT$11,100 Linux-based Eee PCs the company had displayed, a 900MHz Intel Celeron M processor, 512M-bytes of DDR2 DRAM (double data rate, generation two dynamic RAM) and 4G byte flash drives.

The Windows Eee PC included Office 2003 versions of Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13848 ... ticle.html

polyhex · Post by **polyhex** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:07 pm 0

wanye wrote:it would seem scan.co.uk also have them in stock now

bugger why did you have to say this... I only had a passing interest in one and now look what happens... if anyone asks I'm blaming you ok

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:17 pm 0

And there you can get an OEM copy of XP with it and not breach any license terms

wanye · Post by **wanye** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:51 pm 0

i wonder how it would deal with a dual boot setup? (storage-wise)

minimal xp (is that xp lite distro thing still floating around?) and then ubuntu on top.

anyway, order has despatched, i should be getting it tomorrow. woo!

wanye · Post by **wanye** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:29 am 0

...and its here already

my god, its cute!
the keyboard is going to take a bit of getting used to though.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:13 pm 0

I need to have a play with that once you've got XP on it...Sal's been wanting a new laptop for ages and this could be the perfect Christmas pressie if it's right...