Posted on 01/05/2008 5:51:16 AM PST by twntaipan
I see several posts that state that they have never had problems with an ASUS motherboard. I only assemble about a half dozen computers a year, mostly for extended family and a few friends so I make no claim to have any statistically significant knowledge of ASUS quality control. I used ASUS for about 2 years before I ran into problems with their motherboards. The real difficulty starts when you try to get a bad board replaced. Their customer service sucks beyond belief. Even in today’s world where horrendous customer service is the norm, ASUS stands unsurpassed in lousy service. When (If) you finally get permission to return the board, they will not cross ship even with a credit card. You must wait for them to complete the evaluation of the returned board and determine whether or not they will replace it. Your willingness to give them a credit card to guarantee payment is totally irrelevant to them. You can be down for weeks while they suck their thumb and obfuscate. I’ve been down this road twice with ASUS motherboards. I’ll not go down it again.
I realize that this says nothing about the new laptop, but I for one would be leary of jumping on this particular bandwagon.
2Gb will hold a lot of word processing. My entire manuscript-in-progress tops out at about 772Mb (375+ pages).
Portability—only 2 lbs — and the speed of the booting — make it a great machine for web surfing and emailing (which is what most people use $1000 plus machines for).
I tried Ubunto. About a year ago. I couldn’t ‘wrap’ my head around the idea of a wrapper for the wifi.
I’ll try again when I get a down week.
thx.
Their ASUS motherboards are usually a little more expensive than others...
If it has been a year, then in all likelihood you won’t need to use ndswrapper for wifi.
Thanks for the great info! I want at least the 8GB version and I might hold out for the fanless Meron. All I want to do is surf and FReep wirelessly, and I can certainly do that with the Eee PC and Linux.
That 2GB total disk has to hold the OS and all your software. Your available document space will be a much smaller fraction of that. Still, it has USB slots, so you can add an additional USB flash drive to keep all your docs on
Of course. That's assumed.
HALLELUJAH!
HALLELUJAH!
SICK EM ASUS!
P4C800E here. Dual-boots RH and XP just fine.
I haven't had a chance to play with 7.10 just yet. But I've been very pleased with Feisty in a VM.
Mark
Thanks for the link Petro. Those guys are really goofy.
To find all those just go to Distrowatch....
Related thread with many links:
So, just what can you do with this ASUS Eee Linux PC thing anyway?
Development Releases: Linux Mint 4.0 Beta "Fluxbox", 4.0 Alpha "Debian"
This is a Beta Live CD,...not yet installable to a Hard Drive.
Solid state is considerably more expensive than rotating storage per MB. It's just now getting cheap enough to make devices like this possible. It does contribute to the portability and to some degree the cost, by allowing a reasonable battery life with much smaller batteries, and contributes to the performance because of reduced latency compared to rotating storage. It should also be much less prone to physical shock damage. IMHO
bump for later
It looks like the next (or one of the next) versions of the eeePC will have Wimax built in. Check this article out for more info: http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/02/eee-pc-with-wimax/
I would consider the long haul anything where I actually have to be looking at the screen for more than an hour. This would be fine for plugging into a projector or quick 5 to 10 minute things, but anything that would be actual computer work is out. When I was younger and could read the small print on medicine bottles without effort sure, but like Steely Dan says, those days are gone forever. I now consider 14” to be a minimum useful screen size.
I ran DSL off a chip on an old IBM thinkpad. Pretty cool the apps on such a small size. Very clean and quick. What every has worked out of the box( disk ) on a Linux distro, has worked fine. I just get jammed at road bumps and don’t understand the fixes. There are so many forums that I just drift around for hours.
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