Asus eee PC

[Peter_B]

Has anyone use, got or tried one of the Asus eee PC notebooks / laptops. I have always been a fan of Asus motherboards and always against fully branded PC systems, but the eee PC range looks the part, the is a 9 inch system with a solid state drive, and Unix (clone) OS

[aznvoyce17]

My friend has it. I like although I wish it has a built in DVD-ROM

[n0xious]

I wouldn't rush to give it away if someone gave me one as a present. But i totally prefer the more cooler, lighter higher spec MSI Wind U100 over an eee pc anyday.

[ZeuZ]

Originally Posted by Peter_B

Has anyone use, got or tried one of the Asus eee PC notebooks / laptops. I have always been a fan of Asus motherboards and always against fully branded PC systems, but the eee PC range looks the part, the is a 9 inch system with a solid state drive, and Unix (clone) OS

Xandros is quite crappy if you're talking about that, and for the time behing, MSI Wind kicks its ass long time
Though there's an article of some developers have made the Asus EEEpc907 with SSD harddrive in less than five seconds, wich is impressive.

[n0xious]

yeah i second that, MSI Wind owns on everything except battery life.
if you use it to run linux, fine.
use xp and it runs pretty fine.
think again if you want it for performance, et cetera.
don't bother with any of the 'hacks' for it such as putting os x leopard on it - although it is fun its a bit of a waste.

it is a perfect, on-the-go cheap notebook.
pretty good if you wanna do sum l337 h4xx0ring in public places. it's inconspicuous. =]

[ZeuZ]

Originally Posted by n0xious

yeah i second that, MSI Wind owns on everything except battery life.
if you use it to run linux, fine.
use xp and it runs pretty fine.
think again if you want it for performance, et cetera.
don't bother with any of the 'hacks' for it such as putting os x leopard on it - although it is fun its a bit of a waste.

it is a perfect, on-the-go cheap notebook.
pretty good if you wanna do sum l337 h4xx0ring in public places. it's inconspicuous. =]

Actually, no.
The wireless card sucks donkey balls, it does not stack with mac802.11 new stack, so you can't inject packages nor use it as a fake Access Point, both MSI Wind and EEEpc have the same, because of battery consumption, and, MSI Wind has a clearly outstanding replacement battery that owns the EEEpc one, this one, of 6600mHa, holds it on more than 7 hours, though you'd have to buy it appart from it, that's a place where EEEpc can not go, since there's no way to get a battery different than asus's and they do not manufacture another battery for any of the series (just one for each standar serie)

As for OS X, Behing based on fBSD it's actually amazing how sloppy that system is, not to count the buttcrack it is with SSD, talking about the firsts macbook pros with them that where retired from the market because of casual breakings and badly saved data (slashdot.org && muymac.com)

There have been reports of people running freeBSD 7.2-HEAD-CURRENT in EEEPC but not with all working nor pretty much ANYTHING out of the box.

Also, the Windows drivers for it's hardware, sucks hard, poor quality makes system unstability under high load a severe problem, as well as it makes the whole system less responsive because of I/O mistakes or misplaces.

Take in count, that's why they ship with Linux, because it's what suits it's performance the best (though Xandros, the native distro they use, is a piece of junk that takes parts of other distros but has failed to mix them all togheter).
Of course you can get windows on em', or buy them with it, though it's a huge resource and money throw-away (this one if you bought the license)
Nowadays, it's comprobed in phoronix (by several benchmarks) that XP DOES ***NOT*** Work well with SSDs, nor Vista, so that "higher speed" is not achieved, neither "less power consumition", wich will be well supported under Windows 7 if the roadmap gets completed.
As of now, the most complete solution, is Linux, go for Gentoo/Debian/Slackware.

[50cl]

never have, sorry! ( but notebooks are shit )

[munchies000]

should check out the new Benq netbook. 10" screen with the highest rez so far. specs are on par with the netbook segment.

[dumbducky]

I hear the Acer Aspire One is pretty good. You might want to check that one out.

[luqis]

Everything with Intel Atom inside is so slow, don't buy it, you only gonna hate it...

EEE pc is maybe just for little kids...