Members philbo Posted February 26, 2008 Members Share Posted February 26, 2008 I was thinking of buying one of the $400 versions of these new Linux Laptops & would like to see if any forumites have used them. I plan to use it 3 ways: 1) Use the built-in wireless to glom onto free connections while traveling for portable computing.2) Use it for general purpose Email & Browsing3) Get a linux program that groks the Windows Remote-Login-Desktop protocol so I can remote login into my DAW and use the laptop as a remote control for the DAW. http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Hands_on_with_the_ASUS_Eee/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted February 26, 2008 Members Share Posted February 26, 2008 I suspect it was the exchange rate that drove the price of these things up from the $200 (currency unknown) to US$400. At $200, it would be really tempting. At $400, I'd just wait until the right time of the quarter and pick up a Dell Windows laptop for the same price, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Duddits Posted February 26, 2008 Members Share Posted February 26, 2008 I was thinking of buying one of the $400 versions of these new Linux Laptops & would like to see if any forumites have used them.I plan to use it 3 ways:1) Use the built-in wireless to glom onto free connections while traveling for portable computing.2) Use it for general purpose Email & Browsing3) Get a linux program that groks the Windows Remote-Login-Desktop protocol so I can remote login into my DAW and use the laptop as a remote control for the DAW.http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Hands_on_with_the_ASUS_Eee/ They're sweet. For your numbers 1 and 2, it's a great little cheapo computer for knocking around and glomming onto the net. I got one for someone else to do just that and they love it. It's no replacement for a "serious laptop," and you can really appreciate the build quality of, say, a macbook by comparison, but it's definately a nice little internetty appliance on the cheap if that's what you're looking for. If your expectations are low, it delivers big. I'm not sure how well it'd work for your last application, because I've never done that. However, if you ran ino problems, there's an active Asus EEE forum (not sponsored by the company) that has a lot of wonks on it figuring out all kinds of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Hmmm... if the 8GB version was just a touch less expensive, that WOULD be tempting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted February 27, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 27, 2008 I'm skipping the $200 model because improvements to it are impossible (i.e., the flash drive is soldered in). The $400 model is somewhat upgradable... I've heard you can put in a good sized SD card (20GB) for reasonable $ and have a lot better performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dylan Walters Posted February 27, 2008 Members Share Posted February 27, 2008 It looks very tempting, but considering that you can buy a budget laptop for under $500 I think I'll take a pass for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted February 27, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 27, 2008 Yeah, good point... I've always made it a point to steer away from 'bleeding edge' products...I was thinking it'd be handy for an upcoming trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted February 28, 2008 Members Share Posted February 28, 2008 I've got one and am very happy with it ... although it came with Vista, but I'll get rid of that piece of crap software and I'll be just fine, well that and a cool buzz and some tasty waves. Russ Nashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted February 28, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 28, 2008 I've got one and am very happy with it ... although it came with Vista, but I'll get rid of that piece of crap software and I'll be just fine, well that and a cool buzz and some tasty waves. Russ Nashville Are you planning to put XP on it? Or stick with the Linux? Let me know how you like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 I've got one and am very happy with it ... although it came with Vista, but I'll get rid of that piece of crap software and I'll be just fine, well that and a cool buzz and some tasty waves. Russ Nashville [YOUTUBE]TwUegUaePy8&NR=1[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]uf5rIuJPTt0&feature=related[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted February 28, 2008 Members Share Posted February 28, 2008 Ahhhh the American Pie of it's time You left out the best part Phil !!!! philbo: I'll dump the Vista and stick XM on it. Russ Nashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 You left out the best part Phil !!!! Which part Russ? - there are so many good ones. I just wanted to make sure I got a clip with the "tasty waves" quote in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted February 29, 2008 Members Share Posted February 29, 2008 Which part Russ? - there are so many good ones. Nothing like hijacking this thread ... you know "Moving In STEREO"I have it opn my desktop at a button click away at all times. RussNashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Great song... and the visuals weren't bad either. Russ, can you run XP on those laptops? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dylan Walters Posted March 1, 2008 Members Share Posted March 1, 2008 I've got one and am very happy with it ... although it came with Vista, but I'll get rid of that piece of crap software and I'll be just fine, well that and a cool buzz and some tasty waves. Russ Nashville You're running Vista on an Eee PC ? That's amazing if you are considering that most Vista take about 8GB + of disk space and the biggest SS HD you can find on the Eee PC's is 4GB if I'm not mistaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted March 1, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 1, 2008 You're running Vista on an Eee PC ? That's amazing if you are considering that most Vista take about 8GB + of disk space and the biggest SS HD you can find on the Eee PC's is 4GB if I'm not mistaken. You can expand the working size of the on-board flash drive by putting in a SD memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dylan Walters Posted March 2, 2008 Members Share Posted March 2, 2008 That's very cool, I did not know this (in my worst Johnny Carson voice)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members russrags Posted March 2, 2008 Members Share Posted March 2, 2008 You're running Vista on an Eee PC ? That's amazing if you are considering that most Vista take about 8GB + of disk space Yea Vista takes up 8-10GB just for a stinkin' operating system !!!I think this computer has an 80 GIG drive. RussNashville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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