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- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+27Dear EMachine;
This does not mean you can make a come back.
Signed,
The World. - BlueSkyfish, on 01/10/2008, -0/+16Might have something to do with the fact that it's half the price of most computers, with enough power to do things the average person does (email, web, video, documents). Oh yeah, and it runs Linux.
Seriously, not everybody needs 2 gigs of RAM, a dual core processor, and Vista. Maybe people who play games do, but not the average Joe Cubicle. - chingy1788, on 01/10/2008, -0/+15my friend has one, he plays half life on it without any lag
- MeneerR, on 01/10/2008, -0/+14You won't need to anyway. Why would you need to?
Some will say games. But you can't play games with RDP.
Some will say photoshop. But they can't really use photoshop. They just have it installed "just in case" you trip and suddenly become a photoshop-expert (which takes months).
On this hardware, you can't possible claim you would windows for anything.
Windows won't do anything ON THE EE PC, that linux won't. - notjustmii, on 01/10/2008, -3/+16You put some remote desktop client on an eee and you wont need to run ms on it because you will be able to access your pc.
- Gzero, on 01/10/2008, -0/+11Or you could customize it to be simple. :P
- leexy, on 01/10/2008, -0/+10MS is in trouble because, up to a few months ago, virtually ALL laptops came with Windows. The people who didn't want to pay for the license had no choice. Now, and if the current trend continues (EEEs, Cloudbook, etc...) GNU/Linux will surpass MS on laptops in well under a decade. People are discovering that a commodity machine is enough for their needs, and aren't willing to fork a third of the price of the PC to some software company. From then on, software vendor will be forced to release Linux versions (look at how fast the video for the Linux version of Skype once the Eee hit the market). And trust me, that will be something that will hit MS very very hard.
- SilentSpyder, on 01/10/2008, -1/+11I'm getting more and more tempted to buy one of these for my parents.
- yomama6969, on 01/10/2008, -0/+9I think it is refering to the assumptions Microsoft have made in that machines are evolving to high-power systems capable of running Vista etc. But alot of people are keen for a stripped down OS that will run effectively on what will frequently be a machine dedicated for beginners or as an ultra-mobile secondary machine.
I dont think eeepc buyers are necessarily ex-apple buyers. - BlueSkyfish, on 01/10/2008, -0/+8Any game from 2003 or before should be able to run fine.
- f4nt0m4s, on 01/10/2008, -2/+10Why is Microsoft in trouble? If anything, this would be a strike against Apple, who offers simplicity at a PREMIUM cost. The Microsoft and Linux user-base/market is pretty well established. If anything, Apple needs to worry about losing its "i don't know how to set up a printer in windows!" userbase.
- NateTech, on 01/10/2008, -0/+8Not because the normal Joe Sixpack never really needed a 2.0+ GHz processor in a laptop? Laptops used to be a luxury item, then they were powerful desktop replacements, now they're commodities and people needed them to push into the low-end PC market before they would buy en masse. Why this is a surprise to the manufacturers is beyond me.
- Hend, on 01/10/2008, -0/+7This is exactly what I need for school. My current laptop is 7 pounds and it overheats often. A cheap flash based laptop would encourage me to bring a laptop to class. All that I need my laptop to do is play powerpoint/pdf files, music and be able to surf the internet.
- HUKI365, on 01/10/2008, -0/+7Don't - the screen and res is far too small for aging eyes.
- carn311, on 01/10/2008, -0/+7I'm a medstudent and just ordered one of these for the sole reason of having access to pubmed and other references while I study...anywhere. And I can actually afford it!
This is a spectacular machine for students and meets my needs perfectly. Asus has really innovated here. - skyshock1, on 01/10/2008, -0/+6Manufacturers are returning to a minimalist setup because of companies like Google who are making solid web-based apps. There's becoming less and less of a need for a bloated OS with equally bloated local apps - I'm looking at you Vista/Office; and more of a need for computers with high-bandwidth network interfaces with QUICK memory access (no HDD).
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+7No, worse, I used to work on them as a free tech-support agent for my local library. :(
- ToadLeg, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5Here's the pink version you're looking for: http://www.directron.com/eeepc2gsurfp.html
- jkizzle, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5good thing these are CHEAP
- barl0w, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5Here is the Eee Pc compared to a Dell XPS M1330 Laptop taken at CES yesterday: http://flickr.com/photos/barl0w/2180093088/
The screen, keyboard and everything else is a lot smaller than you would think! - mal1964, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5I thank and applaud you for volunteering at your library. that's a easy digg up
- sark666, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5"In an interview this week, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said the company is focusing on being able to configure Windows so that it works well with these kinds of machines. He called it a "key scenario" for the operating system."
A key scenario as of when?! a month ago? How was an operating system that already had a planned faze out all of a sudden have a key scenario in the products road map for mobile technology? It didn't. Microsoft once again has been blind sided by a market and is scrambling to get in there, and I'm sure they'll pull every underhanded trick to do it. Just like how they're trying to get in the olpc project.
Most of us probably don't put much weight behind this 'niche' area of micro portables, but with various companies bundling linux to keep costs down, this can domino into a huge following for linux. Maybe the year of the desktop will never come as we normally think of it for linux, but products like this could usher in mass acceptance for linux by default. i.e. The user never actively seeked out linux, but got it on a micro laptop, liked it, and more importantly, got introduced to the OS, and might even seek out putting the same OS on their desktop system.
Microsoft sees this, and they'll be damned if this happens. Well, here's one hopping it does. - ToadLeg, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5It comes with a 2Gb flash drive, which is plenty if you run Linux. Use an external storage drive if you need more - ssh your home computer to use its storage. There's a program called SSHFS that lets you use a filesystem over ssh as if it is on your computer.
- sp89, on 01/10/2008, -0/+5I'm tempted to buy one for myself...but I have no money.
- deadbaby, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4RDP works fine on low bandwidth connections. It's usable on 128k, very good on 256, perfect on 512k.
- skyshock1, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4Actually I wouldn't mind so much just so long as they use hardware which is widely supported by FOSS. i.e. no broadcom NICs, no ATI graphics cards, etc...
- chingy1788, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4get a 16GB usb drive and do that internal usb drive mod...
or get 4GB SDHC cards - digxag, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4Does your brother use all 20 gigs at once? With a tiny laptop like this, you just carry around what you're gonna use that day. Leave the rest on your 120GB USB-powered HD at home. If you need more than the gig or so left for user storage, you can also use SDHC cards. If that still sounds unattractive to you, keep in mind that it doesn't have to suit the needs of every possible consumer. Even if they only appeal to a few percent of computer buyers, they've got a large market at their disposal.
- Myonosken, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4Actually, EEE has enough power to manage with over javascripted pages. It's not that bad- and my ***** brick of a three year old laptop has difficulties even loading digg comments. Awesome.
- martalli, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4Oh Ken, you shouldn't have!
- Ayavaron, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4If you're not downloading or editing media (video, music, pictures etc.) and instead use it for web-browsing, document editing, note-taking and other such mundane activities, 4gb is an ample amount of space for things like notes, papers, spreadsheets and other such what-have-yous.
- IronChef, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3It amazes me how soon people forget things. Well I don't. I have 2 WinCE handheld's Jornada 680's which was at the time the best thing since white bread. Well guess what....when Microsoft decides to abandon it .....You're stuck with it. No support, no software, no upgrades. The same thing will happen here if Microsoft throws it's hat in the market.
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3anybody catch that last bit?
"The company also plans to offer Eee PC models with slightly larger screens"
it looks like the rumor was a trumor after all. - mal1964, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3Yep. you bought one.
- barl0w, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3There are 32GB SD cards coming out by Toshiba. They displayed it at CES, but that doesn't mean it's going to be affordable, or I guess available soon.
- ToadLeg, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=v ...
Looks like the new version of Wine supports it. You could also get Cedega to run it, but it isn't free. - mal1964, on 01/10/2008, -0/+3Computer makers have always tried to make them more simple, the market is a lot bigger for simple over complicated
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2yup, it has a much smaller resolution to support, which compensates for it's lack of raw number-crunching power.
imagine running at 800x480 on your desktop, it would fly. - chingy1788, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2doesn't it have integrated wifi?
- NateTech, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2My old eMachines laptop runs all modern Linux flavors just fine. Winmodem works, ethernet works, audio works... not sure what your model is, but the M2105 never had any long term hardware support issues under Linux.
- MeneerR, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2I don't think those games are going to run on an EEE pc with Win XP either.
- Justin11, on 01/14/2008, -3/+5Very very tempting. I might purchase one of these actually.
- inactive, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2they still need to drop down to the originally (waaay back) quoted price point of $200-250.
I'm hoping they'll drop this phase (2G - 8G) down a price notch (at which point i'll *definitely* buy one) and sell them alongside the next-gen ones at the same 300-400 range. - inactive, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2proprietary academic/technical software is the worst. those licenses can get expensive too.
- fkr3, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2People who use digg do. Or who want to browse .Mac galleries. Or who want to use the rest of the internet that over-uses JavaScript.
Having said that, next trip statewide I'm getting one of these. - jimrooney, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2What can you do with one?
Surf Digg ;)
(I'm on mine right now)
4gig?... 3 usb2 ports and a built in SD card reader. Storage is not a problem.
I travel a lot... these little things rock.
YMMV - warriorscot, on 01/10/2008, -0/+2The screen is supposed to be top quality and I havent heard anyone that has one say otherwise.
I only need a 2Gb flash pen for work so one of these has twise the storage I need on a computer like that, I have a PC at home this is supposed to be something to use on the go. - chingy1788, on 01/10/2008, -2/+3i want to play starcraft...
- reginaldino, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1i guess you're right. I just like the hardware design of the XO. It's just so well engineered
- kazamx, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1Yup, it was announced at CES
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