The Netbook Thread

[milesmowbray]

Thanks, HGFB. I've decided I'm only going to offer strictly limited IE6 support, so I don't need to bother with VPC.

So, ordered:

Item : Asus Eee PC 1000 H / Atom N270 1.6GHz / 1GB / 80GB / 10" / XP Home / NetBook / White



Perfect.

If you need to test in different IE versions use this:

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

"IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process."

The only problem I can find with it is that flash doesn't work in IE6 instances and Java applets don't work at all. But good for testing the rest of the layout.

Enjoy your EEE

[venusian]

Just discovered an interesting little feature on my 901, try it for yourselves, simply hold down the 'Alt Gr' key and then press one of the cursor keys.

That's a well known XP/video driver feature. This clunking great Dell Inspiron does it, for example.

[Rod_S]

Posting from Chrome on the 1000h. Love it, it easily exceeds my expectations for such a cheap machine - the screen is lovely and crisp and bright, build quality is solid and sturdy, keyboard is fine, fuck I've even enjoyed messing about with XP. The connection to my BeBox is over twice as fast as any of my Macs using their internal Airport cards.

Thanks for the link, milesmowbray, looks ideal.

Just noticed this has a multitouch trackpad, oooooh

[guythp]

I was wondering through morrisons the other day getting breakfast stuffs and saw they have 1gb RAM / 16Gb disk Eee's for £199 - It is worth getting one at that price?

[dom]

I was wondering through morrisons the other day getting breakfast stuffs and saw they have 1gb RAM / 16Gb disk Eee's for £199 - It is worth getting one at that price?

Great news, but in light of a certain other thread, I feel obliged to embed the following image here:

[HGFB]

That's currently the most annoying thing on the forum. Since Digital Knight got rebanned anyway.

[adam]

http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/200 ... -ssds.html

linus torvalds gushing about an intel ssd

[oNyx]

Finally got my black 900A (with l00nix). The 901 would have been a lot nicer, but paying 100€ for those tiny details didn't seem to be worth it. I think the device is pretty cute and 279€ wasn't all that expensive.

Unfortunately there is one b0rked subpixel, but it's only visible on dark single-color backgrounds (not on black though).

Typing is a bit fiddly, but I guess that was to be expected. Well, I'm slowly getting used to it by the looks of it.

[Dio]

I finally had a look at a bunch of them last week. There's no way I could settle for the keyboard on the eee 900s, but the 1000 and the Aspire One were far better, particularly the latter. The problems with the Acer are the 1G limit on the SODIMM slot and having to have the better battery (without buying it separately). Decisions, decisions...

[oNyx]

Just saw that I wrote the 1000th reply... damn... it took me so long to get mine.

And yea, the Aspire One isn't bad. A friend got one and he's pretty satisfied with it. If you don't mind the weaker battery (compared to the 901) it's a pretty good option.

[Yak]

That's currently the most annoying thing on the forum. Since Digital Knight got rebanned anyway.

The AP is awesome. We're taking it to the real world too. I show people what we're doing and it's "FUCK YEAH gimme some of those stickers".

PEOPLE MUST BE INFORMED.

[HGFB]

Someone beat you to it. There's a site out there that has rather impressive things to stick places.

[Yak]

Someone beat you to it. There's a site out there that has rather impressive things to stick places.

it's not a competition, it's a mission. The more the better .

[HGFB]

Can we summon the capital letter police for your post then?

[Yak]

Can we summon the capital letter police for your post then?

Sure, go ahead .