RE: Asus eee PC - wow!

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

I saw that demo when I was filming the RM company brief - looks pretty
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resting. One question - the screen looked like it had a large black border
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around it - is this physical or did they just have the screen res set
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ly?

Will be very interested to see what you think of it (if I don't see one in
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the flesh first - or should that be in the metal/plastic!?).

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ian Lowe
> Sent: 09 November 2007 11:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Asus eee PC - wow!
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> (disclosure - I work for RM, who are selling these in the UK)
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> I got my hands on a shiny new eee PC (we are selling it as the
> mini-book into education) - and I am seriously impressed! it's a mini
> laptop, in a roughly A5 form factor. It uses intel's new System on
> chip version of the Celeron at 900mhz, has 512mb of ram and a 4Gb SSD
> Hard drive (so no moving parts - it is *silent*)
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> The OS is Xandros, with an app launcher interface built by Asus.
> There's roughly 1.9gb free when the OS is counted out. device has 3
> USB 2.0 ports, an MMC/SD Card reader and a built in webcam.
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> Screen is a very clear easy to read 7.5 inch, resolution is 800x480,
> so not huge, but very, very useable. It has the grunt to play xvid
> encoded movies without any hassles.
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> it can take XP (with some tweaking to avoid a swap file killing the
> flash hard drive) but to be honest, the linux distro onboard does
> pretty much everything you want/need in this size.
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> I'm getting one for myself, and they will basically be selling at
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> vat inc.
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> I'll post some pictures and so on when I get my own one (this one is a
> test machine for the dept), but first impression is that this is a
> pretty damn tasty little device :)
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> I.
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