The Netbook Thread

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:30 pm 0

lol...last time I looked at RAM prices it was for a Powerbook hence my inflated view

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:37 pm 0

I really want one of these, I'm even considering trading in my 2GHz P4 laptop for one or maybe even my beloved SPV. I need to see one in the flash though.

When are the new power-lean ones due, and will the 10" one increase the size of the device any?

moosedude · Post by **moosedude** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:42 pm 0

I would be getting one now if the government hadn't just took all my money.

I dunno, not once did they turn up for work and they still want to be paided on time. and I could be wrong, but I'm sure if you're going to rob somebody its more polite to stick a gun in their face and actually call it robbery.

erm

on with the eee pc discussion.

wanye · Post by **wanye** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:35 pm 0

i've heard toys'r'us are now stocking these if you want to take a look at one before buying

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:38 pm 0

8GB models being priced up for Q1 2008:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/03 ... gb_eee_pc/

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:23 pm 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:8GB models being priced up for Q1 2008:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/03 ... gb_eee_pc/

There's an echo in here...

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:28 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:
Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote:8GB models being priced up for Q1 2008:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/03 ... gb_eee_pc/
There's an echo in here...

There's an echo in here...

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:28 pm 0

Quack.

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:38 am 0

wanye wrote:i've heard toys'r'us are now stocking these if you want to take a look at one before buying

Nipped in yesterday, they had a really wobbly display with one strapped to it Want one even more badly now

Â£219 (I assume that's the 512MB/4G) but only white ones available. They did have 5 of them left, though...

Stone

Purple Grapefruit · Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:35 am 0

dailytech.com wrote: .....the fact that the Eeeâ€™s processor is actually
running at 630MHz instead of the alleged 900MHz
that has been such a popular number until this point.

The Eeeâ€™s shipping BIOS â€“- and the recently updated
version -â€“ both lock the front-side bus to only 70MHz,
bringing the processor and memory clocks down with it.

source
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9521

Can anyone verify this?

Also it seems that the eee pc has a 900mhz (or 630mhz ?)
celeron M CPU and i was wondering, well how powerful is
that?

Though i have played with laptops, all my machines i have
"experience" with are desktops.After googling i guessed that
a 900mhz Celeron m is roughly equivalent to a desktop
1500xp.Is my guess way off?

Something that has surprised me is that even though it
appears to me that this machine has the potential to be
a very cheap but powerful retro games machine emulator
there has been no mention (that i can remember) of this
in this thread?

The eee pc while not as small as a gameboy for example
is small enough to fit in a larg(ish) pocket and with an
installation of XP could hypothetically run many emulators.

Perhaps i'm missing something obvious as to why buying
this machine to be a portable small omni retro games machine
is a bad idea?

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:40 am 0

What, apart from me and Firefox discussing porting Emu to it?

Purple Grapefruit · Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:53 am 0

Dio wrote:What, apart from me and Firefox discussing porting Emu to it?

Please accept my apologies.
I missed/didn't remember that.

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:52 am 0

It's a 900MHz Celeron underclocked to 630MHz in the Eee.

lis0r · Post by **lis0r** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:16 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:It's a 900MHz Celeron underclocked to 630MHz in the Eee.

Hax0r kernel module to clock it back to 900 is available - take a look at the eee user forums. Some people report instability, though.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:27 pm 0

Asus have rejigged the design again, the 8GB model has no flash on-board
and is using the mini PCIe slot instead.
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=4562