ASUS Eee PC and others

by TUKIS • 8 Feb 2009, 12:23 • Journals
I am in the army atm and laptop would be cool so could get in net at free time. So I have been thinking about buying some small/mini laptop like ASUS Eee PC or some other. The cheaper the better, maybe about 250-300e.

So do you guys have your own and have you found it good/useable and its working? And do you have any certain model in your mind which is good and cheap? And ASUS' ones are the best ones? And Linux is easy to learn?

Tell me :>
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SlimShady 8 Feb 2009, 12:25
i was watching youtube for 3h and then the EEE didnt respond
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urtier 8 Feb 2009, 12:26
The Eee PC is just fine for browsing the internet and some smaller office works.
You can't really do much more with it though :)
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fUnner 8 Feb 2009, 12:38
+1

friend uses it only at uni to getting scripts and co
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TUKIS 8 Feb 2009, 13:02
well ye, my point was that I can be at messenger and then surf some news..but need to buy this inet provider thing also so dunno..10e/month or so : d
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urtier 8 Feb 2009, 13:03
Get one of those netbooks then! Doesn't need to be the Eee PC, there are some others from MSI, Acer or Dell as well. They are basically all the same. :d
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pupupup 8 Feb 2009, 12:28
I loaned my little brother's laptop :P Remember to request a permission for storing the PC in your locker!
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Panda 8 Feb 2009, 12:33
There's hardly anything to learn to operate a Linux system, even theodor was able to load it up!
Cloudbooks are nice
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Ollz 8 Feb 2009, 12:37
In reference to Linux, plenty of netbooks come with Windows XP. They're all generally the same, I went for a 10" screen because I felt like anything less was ridiculous. As urtier said only really good for internet, chat programs, word processing etc.

Your main options are Eee PC or MSI Wind (U110, U120,) although the majority of netbooks have near identical specs. There are plenty of comparisons on the net, the biggest differences are screen size, keyboard/touchpad "feel," hard drive type and size and an integrated broadband adaptors (which is important if you don't want to be lugging around a USB dongle.)
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Panda 8 Feb 2009, 12:41
Don't forget the cloudbook :'(
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caej 8 Feb 2009, 12:41
do the same as lettu&squall, then you dont have to waste money for that
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aka 8 Feb 2009, 12:43
you can have a pc in the army? O_O
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Panda 8 Feb 2009, 12:45
Depends on what you do in the army?
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aka 8 Feb 2009, 12:47
fuck yea! im gettin some uberl33t laptop n gonna play ET all day long :'D
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pupupup 8 Feb 2009, 15:55
Actually its possible from 18 till 20.30 :d
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pumu 8 Feb 2009, 12:45
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EURUZZz 8 Feb 2009, 12:50
i'd laugh if his hair got stuck in this ventilator : DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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uLtraaa 8 Feb 2009, 12:51
linux is learnable...npnp
and it does exactly what urtier said...
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Viperius 8 Feb 2009, 13:17
I have asus eee 1000h as a school PC. It doesn't do well with games, but for internet stuff etc, it works wonders :)
It's thanks to the integrated gfx "card" that it doesn't do well with games, afaik. :p
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TUKIS 8 Feb 2009, 13:21
well I have my own uber home PC alrdy so need only chat and surf with this :p
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Viperius 8 Feb 2009, 13:24
then asus eee 1000h is a good choice. It's got WinXP, 160gb hdd, the Atom CPU, good battery. I take a 5 hour bus trip to get home to my parents during holidays, and I watch movies all the way, and still I have time left on the battery!
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triflip 8 Feb 2009, 14:03
it's more the CPU why it doesn't work well in games, you can compare it to a P3 1ghz or smth close to it.
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Lakaiii 8 Feb 2009, 13:29
I have the Eee 900, it's pretty decent if you use Linux (I've been using Ubuntu & KDE). But it also works with XP pretty decently. It's important to note that it can be a bit tricky in the beginning to type on it, but you'll get used to it.

It can do just about everything except from gaming, and I think it's the cheapest Eee PC around at the moment (wish I waited a bit longer before I bought mine :P). I use it for university and it has all I need for my studies.
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Viperius 8 Feb 2009, 13:46
Sort of bad battery on it, though (2,5 hours max)? Buy 901 or 904 if you want the 8,9", as it's got the same battery as 1000h. And if you want movies and lots of music on it, there's not much hdd space, thanks to the SSD (16GB or so) :)
Always good with a good battery ;)
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Lakaiii 8 Feb 2009, 13:51
True :P But comparing the price it's well worth it as a secondary PC. You can get a better battery pretty cheap, although I'm satisfied with mine (it lasts about 3 hours fully loaded).
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Keytaro 8 Feb 2009, 13:55
acer aspire one Ab-150 (linux)
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Scuba 8 Feb 2009, 14:09
i have a samsung nc10 works fine for me.
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overdrive 8 Feb 2009, 14:22
<3 my EEE for browsing and simple wordprocessing


just make sure to get a big enough flashdrive, look for some older games (2d) games and hf!

and take the winXP version :)
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