The Netbook Thread

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 3:02 pm 0

One more detail to confirm the 1000H as the right choice - the battery is a 6-cell, 55Whr device. No idea what Lenovo are planning on shipping, but the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 has a 4-cell 32Whr battery.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:57 am 0

Expansys is having a UMPC Friday, and offering the original EEE 701 cheaply enough to think it was worth pointing out there...

ASUS Eee PC 701 Surf (White)
Normally Â£155.99
Now only Â£117.99 inc VAT (Â£99.99 ex VAT)
Save Â£38

http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=172649

ASUS Eee PC 701 Surf (Black)
Normally Â£155.99
Now only Â£139.99 inc VAT (Â£119.14 ex VAT)
Save Â£16

http://www.expansys.com/d.aspx?i=172648

xav · Post by **xav** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:39 am 0

Misfit wrote:Expansys is having a UMPC Friday, and offering the original EEE 701 cheaply enough to think it was worth pointing out there...

And if anyone does decide it's cheap enough to go for, I've got a Â£10 Expansys voucher code that you might be able to use. I don't know if Expansys's codes are transferrable or if it's tied to my account, but if you're going to buy anyway it's got to be worth a try.

First PM gets it.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:53 am 0

xav wrote:
Misfit wrote:Expansys is having a UMPC Friday, and offering the original EEE 701 cheaply enough to think it was worth pointing out there...
And if anyone does decide it's cheap enough to go for, I've got a Â£10 Expansys voucher code that you might be able to use. I don't know if Expansys's codes are transferrable or if it's tied to my account, but if you're going to buy anyway it's got to be worth a try.

First PM gets it.

I don't think vouchers work during the offer period....

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 12:46 am 0

The eee pc looses it's juice quickly if you don't use it for a while I've noticed. You have to charge it before every use.

oxo · Post by **oxo** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:53 pm 0

posting from my shiny new asus eee pc 1000h....

... I HATE THIS FORUM!!!!

right wheres all my emulators and mame disks!

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:37 pm 0

Hooray!

What's the keyboard like on the 1000?

oxo · Post by **oxo** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:53 pm 0

keyboard feels great. But I've never used a small keyboard like it before so don't really have a comparison. Just installed my anti virus and so far I'm very impressed at the speed it runs at.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:29 pm 0

They offer the EEE PC for cheap or for free over here with mobile phone or internet subscriptions. For example if you subscribe to an XS4ALL subscription for 24 months (starting at 29,95 euros) you get the EEE PC 900 for free (well you only pay 15 euro's postage).

oxo · Post by **oxo** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:01 pm 0

just spent the last few hours playing on the 1000H and i'm in love

Its the ultimate emulator machine, mame is a dream on it as well as numerous
other emus.

YAK its all your fault for showing that pic of Giles playing on it.
I have a bad case of buyers remorse!

Seriously it really is a lovely machine. Runs smoothly and the display is
crisper than my desktop Hanns G.

dom · Post by **dom** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:24 pm 0

Sorry for crossposting, I should have said this here instead of the other Eee thread:

I finally got my Eee 901 sorted by sending it back to ASUS, they replaced the flatpanel. I'm not going to bother complaining about the hair trapped just under where the camera is, since it's barely noticeable, and the flatpanel is otherwise fine...

Goatboy's post made me wonder if I could get my external Western Digital 250 GB USB hard disk to work on this model, as it never worked on the Eee 701, but alas I get the same problem - the disk appears to power-up, but the "dmesg" output shows "USB disconnect" errors, as it does when I use the USB ports on the front of my desktop PC, suggesting not enough current can be delivered through the USB ports.

The drive works fine when I connect it to the back of my desktop PC, so I guess I'll just have to use flash storage and wifi all-round, then *shrugs*

Dom

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:59 pm 0

I have a 160gig Passport and that always worked on my 701 when I still had it. I have a 320gig one now and that works on my 900.

dom · Post by **dom** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:00 pm 0

Interesting HGFB I shall have to look into this further.

In other news, the next generation of flash memory will last longer by orders of magnitude

RedOktober · Post by **RedOktober** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 11:07 pm 0

This is why you'd want to know if your netbook memory/storage is interchangeable. It'd be nice to put one of these durable storage drives in at some point.

oxo · Post by **oxo** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:53 am 0

can anyone recommend the best c64 and spectrum emulators for xp please.

YakYak

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