Asus Eee PC looks cool for just £200/$400

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GatorHex

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 01:23 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 02:28

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Asus Eee PC laptop looks cool for just £200/$400

As small as Libretto or Mini Vaio but at about 1/5 of
the price! Uses solid state memory instead of a hard
drive so a bit more rugged too.

Comes with Linux but Microsoft are bringing XP back
out of retirement for it coz they now realise Vista
is a CPU hog.. Doh!

Some video review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmH05vIN8N0&feature=related

more nice pics here..

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Hands_on_with_the_ASUS_Eee/

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Keo C

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 01:28

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I was going to get one until I got a great deal on a Vostro 1000

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GatorHex

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 01:57 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 02:40

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Microsoft were probably crapping their pants when they saw this.

Wth! Linux in ever school!?!? Wahhhh!
(dusts off XP quick smart)
I bet they are forced to throw in MS Office for free too!

Like cigarettes you have to get your punters hooked
to your brand while they are still young.

Can you imagine an army of kids coming out of school
every year knowing how to use Linux and OpenOffice.

Could change the face of Operating Systems as we know them

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Keo C

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 02:10 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 02:11

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XP SP3 is coming out to put more CD keys into service. Linux is by-far more useful to learn then Windows. If you think about it, if you can use KDE/Gnome you can use Windows.

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 07:27

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I was going to buy it until they decided to lose some features and double the announced price. At 400 bucks I can get a low end laptop with a regular size screen and ten times the space and double the power

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 10:27 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 10:33

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It probably weighs a couple of bricks too. In the UK low end laptops are still £300/$600+

Really you cannot compair it's price to a full size dinosaur you should be compairing it to a similar sub-compact notebook like the Toshiba Libretto U1 or Sony Vaio Picturbook PCG-C1 where you're asked to pay through the nose for mini size like £1000/£2000+

Libretto U1 £1000/$2000 +

Sony Vaio Picturebook C1 £1000/$2000 +

Asus Eee PC for only £200/$400 wow that's 5x cheaper!

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 12:11

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There is a slight flaw in their claim that it's designed with *nix in mind...it has a Windows key!

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 13:40

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i got a full size (15.4") sony vaio for $400 from the black friday sales... Pentium Dual Core T2310... 2 gigs of ram (i upgraded it)... 120 gig hdd...

i was going to buy one of these EEEs just because they were going to be so cheap and portable... but they doubled the price from their early estimates

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 14:05

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I've been thinking about getting a 13" Dell XPS for a nice blend of raw power and a small form factor. Personally I think a 15" laptop is too big to be anything but something to move from desk to desk. I've seen the Eee PC before but I don't think it have enough power for me and the screen is a bit small to code on.

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Posted: 14th Dec 2007 14:38 Edited at: 14th Dec 2007 14:47

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Quote: "There is a slight flaw in their claim that it's designed with *nix in mind...it has a Windows key!"

One of the screenshots has a windows key the other has a house key

You get some realy good deals in the USA, damn we so get screwed in the UK.

This is my old Libretto. As a network engineer crawling through Manchesters cable tunnels and lofts I prefered carrying the little one even though it was down on processor power and screen size. Also walking through Manchesters streets with a laptop bag was not a good idea