Comments on: Asus Eee Purchased – Only One Catch

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:13:05 +0000

If you really love Asus Eee, try Eee PC 900, the harddisk capacity is much larger than any other Asus Eee laptops. 2 GB? What can you do with it? :D

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:23:35 +0000

Just take diligent time taping up the whole thing and sand/prime/paint the case whatever you want.

Or cover it in vinyl stickers like you see for Wiis and things.

I have a guy that could make something one-off too.

By: Mary Sue

Mary Sue — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Apparently some of the travel DVD cases will fit the EEE and cover up the pretty pink. Or you can go Sharpie on it, mine’s got Sharpie flames and a sticker from girl-wonder.org on it. Not terribly professional, I admit, but I use it more for recreation… and I live in Portland.

I run Pingus off my SD card, so that’s not an issue. One thing from reading all the forums that worried me was the fact that SSDs will suffer from write fatigue faster than a ‘regular’ hard drive, so I mounted a 4GB SD card as my main drive, as that’s easy and cheap to replace. I got the directions off the EEE Wiki, but that’s about as fancy as I’ve gotten. I still use Easy Mode.

The one thing I forgot to mention is that if you use one of these things in public, be prepared to constantly field questions about it. I’m about two minutes away from xeroxing the stats onto index cards to hand out.

By: Clever Dude

Clever Dude — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:47:26 +0000

Now you’re tempting me since it’s coming up to laptop replacement time. I like my little 12″ monitor Vaio for its portability, but I guess I could use something even smaller. I think I’d wait for the larger screen version though.

By: DebtKid

DebtKid — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:31:39 +0000

I was just lusting over one of these at the store this week. The one I had was running XP. I already run Linux on my main laptop, so I was actually curious about getting an uber cheap one like this to run XP. Would it be too slow?

By: Happy Steve

Happy Steve — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:07:15 +0000

Well that was mighty quick. Welcome to the group of Eee owners! :)

I doubt the small hard drive will be an issue. The only software I use is Firefox, Skype, and the occasional game of solitaire if I’m stuck without wifi for a while.

By: SimianLogic

SimianLogic — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:32:51 +0000

I’ve been using a Fujitsu P1510 Lifebook for over a year now (similar form factor to the EEE, and I’m 6′3 with big hands), and I’ve since ditched my desktop completely. I’ve had laptops before, but they always sort of turned into desktops because of size/clunkiness. This is the first PC I’ve had where the form factor is such that you really can take it just about anywhere. Prepare to be addicted to how convenient it is…

By: Llama Money

Llama Money — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:25:49 +0000

You’re a bigger man than I am, that’s for sure. I’ll stick with my Treo for mobile internet ( even though the screen is much smaller.) I just can’t pull off pink – especially not in a professional environment. Hope your co-workers have a sense of humor!