oNyx wrote:The battery drain is specific to the Celeron M models. (Got an Atom myself.)
Eh?
Are you suggesting that a change of processor is enough in itself to make an EEE's
battery go flat quicker when the charger lead is not connected and the machine is not on.
oNyx wrote:The battery drain is specific to the Celeron M models. (Got an Atom myself.)
Eh?
Are you suggesting that a change of processor is enough in itself to make an EEE's
battery go flat quicker when the charger lead is not connected and the machine is not on.
That sounds very, very odd!
That matches with what my new eee pc is doing atm..
oNyx wrote:The battery drain is specific to the Celeron M models. (Got an Atom myself.)
Eh?
Are you suggesting that a change of processor is enough in itself[...]
I'm suggesting that they fixed the issue. The Celeron isn't the problem, it's the product line with Celerons. (I'm not sure if those somewhat newer models like the 904HD are also affected.)
guythp wrote: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?
I haven't seen the eee there, but there was something else, at £299, now it's £244, I think it has a 10inch display, don't know whether it's a bargain even at this price, but thought some might be interested.
"My way is the way of not fighting":- the book of Enter the Dragon.
Just got my Samsung NC10 to replace my Eee 701 (which my sister is getting for chrimbo as she's had her eye on it all year).
First impressions after 90mins : amazing battery life (been setting up/installing for an hour, still on 88%!), slightly weak hinge (when I lift it up by the base and angle it, the hinge starts to close - the Eee is solid and never budges - as I tend to move my Eee around a lot when surfing in bed this could be an issue). It's great to be back on XP where things are actually available and work, instead of that Linux thingy (don't you start you lot! Linux just isn't for me as bugger all apps I use are available on it, and it's the most convoluted pain ever to get anything installed/working compared to the comfortable familiarity of XP..). Nice to have a 160gig drive too - loads of room for movies etc - I used to feel rationed with the 16meg SD card in the Eee.. Keyboard is brill too...
I'll miss the small size of the Eee, the NC10 is about 15% bigger and 1/3 heavier, but it wasn't quite small enough to be pocketable (I suspect I'll join the iPhone-clone crowd next year and get a phone with a big screen to provide my 'net in my pocket' - my current Nokia is 2 years old and slow as hell for the net).
Whilst flicking through the channels earlier tonight, I noticed that Bid.TV were trying to sell one of these for £299.99. It was branded Ikasu. I didn't catch the spec at the time, but it appears to have 1GB RAM and a 40GB hard drive if its the same model as on their website. The screen is a tiddly 7" one.
The twonk trying to sell the think was attempting to claim that as Microsoft Office costs £600, this is a real bargain!
Ah I sometimes watch those for a laugh - Bid-up.tv have a roster of invented brands it seems - Seal, Zennox, Ikasu - ones I've never heard of or seen apart from on those channels..
Got a bit fed up with Linux (being trying out some bitnami stacks which would work once then fail) so tried installing os x ( hacked on obviously ) installed easily enough but the speed of the thing was truly dreadful. Shame as I kinds liked the idea of an ultraportable mac but the sloth made the machine unusable.
Will probably plumb for windows now(more familiar territory for me)
"England is funny, but sometimes she scares me"
Tony Wakeford
New 8.9†EeePc T91 and 10†EeePC T101H - both with touchscreens, both with swivel. Theres ANOTHER new one, N20 which has multitouch. If they can get the price down far enough, they've got a winner.
The new eeePcs look really good. A multi-touch screen would make them even more tempting.
Not sure about the swivel though. It looks like something that would break far more easily than the standard hinges. If you wanted to view the screen from a different angle, why not just turn the whole machine around?
