New $499 Linux Notebook a winner.

[mrsnipey]

A girl at work bought the 12gb xp version the other day.
It ran quite well considering the cpu. I was very impressed with
the screen quality. She was running it in 1024x600.

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

who would bother with one of these when the BigW Lenovo Lappys: 1.46Ghz Core 2's, T2310 (also capable of taking the T7XXX and T8XXX ...any of the fpga 6 CPUs) with 120Gb HDD, 1Gb RAM, 14 inch display and 4-5 hour batter DVD burner, wireless, motza USBs and a firewire blah blah for $598.

I took out the RAM stick and put in a 2Gb stick for $52. Thus a neat little flyer, fully fledged Lappy for $650....there is absolutely no comparison.

Pity all of those have sold out.

But, you may find it's replacement, $698 Lappy, with similar specs but 15 inch screen still on sale at a few BigWs. They finished sale on the 29th of May but a few store may have some left. Ring around their computer depts as they are not on display.

[RB (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by acropolite

I had a play with a mates Eee PC 900, 20Gb drive and 2Gb Ram with Linux and I was very impressed. I'd like to see what it runs like with XP.

I've heard that MS did a deal with Asus to bring out the next model running a stripped down version of XP.

[dannat (Daniel)]

I bought an eeePC last week, they have really restricted the linux OS, I am busy putting some build essentials so I can put any programs I want on - it comes with kstars but I have had some trouble loading stellarium.

I have just the 4gb version, and have another 4gb sd crd to slot in. I have found it actually runs reasonably quick, better than winXP on most systems.

I find it fun to muck around in the terminal - they have partitioned the drive so if you stuff up , you can reboot & reload the original software.

I will try & load gimp in the coming days to see how it performs.

I figure it's cheap to have outside at night, if i get dew/ drop it it doesn't matter. The kids work on it during the day and they have the small fingers to use the keyboard.

You can buy them with XP but apparently they are quite slow, you can easily upgrade the ram to 1gb, and there is a 3rd party selling touchscreen pack for $60 on ebay - that quite a few have installed via the eeeWiki

[hikerbob (Bob)]

I picked up a Lenovo R61e Thinkpad with XP Pro installed for $599 earlier this week after my desktop PC died. Ordered on monday night and was at my front door tuesday.

http://www.pcsuperstore.com.au/produ...roductID=11603

Specs are as follows

Software Operating system provided Genuine Windows XP Professionalhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Operating System Operating System Title Genuine Windows XP Professionalhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Architecture Bus type/architecture PCI/PCI Express Bays Fixed Ultrabay Enhanced Form Factor Notebook Cover Material Magnesiumhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Display/Monitor Screen Type Description WXGA TFT Viewable Image Size (Diagonal) Inches 15.4 Screen Illumination Backlit Grey Shades or Colours Max Built in Screen 16777216 Maximum Resolution 1280x800http://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Graphics Subsystem Graphics Chipset Intel Graphics Chipset Video RAM type DVMT Max resolution (with max video RAM) 2048x1536 16777216 colours Maximum Simultaneous Colours 16777216 Graphics bus interface PCI Express Graphic Features DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3.0 Graphics Processing Unit, Dual independent display option, Dynamic Display Detect, Open GL 1.4 support Connectors VGAhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Processor BIOS type Flash ROM Processor Manufacturer Intel Processor Type Intel Celeron Processor 540 Processor internal clock speed[1] 1.86 GHz Front side bus 533 MHzhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Memory Memory (RAM) std. / max.[8] 1 GB / 4 GB RAM slots total 2 SODIMM RAM slots available 1 SODIMM RAM speed supported 667 MHz Memory Type DDR2 SDRAMhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Hard Disk Drives Hard disk size[4] 120 GB Hard disk type Serial ATAhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Optical Devices Optical Drive Type DVD Recordable Interface Type EIDE Speed[5] 24X Maxhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Audio Audio Chipset Intel High Definition Audio Data Width 24http://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Network Card Fax/modem 56K V.92 designed modem Fax/modem speed[3] 56Kbps data/14.4Kbps fax Infrared port No Description Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Network Speed 1000Mbps, 100Mbps, 10Mbps Interface Gigabit Ethernet- Integratedhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Wireless Networking Components Wireless speed 11a:54Mbps, 11b:11Mbps, 11g:54Mbps *Wireless Speed 11a:54Mbps, 11b:11Mbps, 11g:54Mbps Wireless Standard[10] Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Wireless Type LAN Antenna UltraConnect II Description Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Frequency 802.11:2.4 to 5 GHz Wireless Implementation (Form Factor) Mini-PCIehttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Accessories Worldwide A/C compatibility Yeshttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Standard features Pointing Device Type TrackPoint Keyboard Type[11] Full size Keyboard light Yeshttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Expansion options Slots total (free) and type 1(1) PC Card, 1(0) Mini-PCIe, 1(0) Communication Daughter Card 2http://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Weight & dimensions Height 35.3 mm Depth 260 mm Width 358.5 mmhttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Security Security identification technology Nonehttp://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Warranty Type of service[13] Customer Carry-in Repair Warranty Period One year parts and labour (system battery: one year)http://www.lenovo.com/i/c.gif Battery Battery Types 6 Cell Lithium-Ion Battery Voltage 14.4 V

Bob

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by dannat

I bought an eeePC last week, they have really restricted the linux OS, I am busy putting some build essentials so I can put any programs I want on - it comes with kstars but I have had some trouble loading stellarium.

Hey Daniel - I bought one of these to fool around with today as well as a new Toshiba Satellite laptop. DJ's also threw in an Olympus 8MP camera to boot! All for just over $1,200 - not bad.

What a great little unit the eeePC is. To those who have mentioned that the Lenovo laptop is a better bet - that isn't the point. This is A5 form factor (sub notebook), runs linux quite quickly and is a lot of fun.

I've just powered mine up and only find basic OpenOffice, a few games, internet-related stuff - but no terminal as such. Yours came with KStars? I see that its based on KDE, but can't see too many K-apps yet. Oh well - time to investigate

[acropolite (Phil)]

FWIW Myer have the EeePC 900 XP version in the cat & dog for $599 or $649 with a 140G external mini drive.

[dannat (Daniel)]

yes, mine came with Kstras,
I have put build essentials pack on, & WINE - i tried to install DSS using wine, but have hit a snag with a couple on win components that aren't part of wine tricks - anyone want to build it for me feel free.

Extra SD is essential, have used uo the 4gb already, another 4gb on way

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

What was KStars under? Looks like yours came with a different install?

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Ah - OK, scratch that - it was under Learn/Science.

Very cool little toy!

[acropolite (Phil)]

OK guys, just to throw a stick in the spokes, MSI have released a 10 inch screen model with 80Gb Hdd and XP for around $500 US. Review Here.