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- mariuz, on 12/08/2007, -12/+87try that with vista :P
- depro9, on 12/08/2007, -6/+71http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRP8fPcaSzI ***** cool
- ArthurSucks, on 12/08/2007, -0/+54After looking at the screen shots, I gotta say that it does damn good for 800x480 resolution.
- jamesshuang, on 12/08/2007, -0/+36That was unbelievably fast... I didn't expect such a tiny machine would run it so well...
- chedabob, on 12/08/2007, -4/+36You might want to get off the internet if you find swearing offensive.
/buried - archiesteel, on 12/08/2007, -1/+32dip, you're missing the point, which is that this is running on the EeePC with *excellent* performance.
You're welcome. - crapatastic, on 12/08/2007, -0/+30I have an eeepc. A couple of cool things:
The good:
- Running Ubuntu "Server install" with XFCE, GIMP and OOffice, etc. installed "on top". Native installation takes up around 1.0 GB. (Lots of "apt-get clean")
- I use it as my desktop at work. Have a Sceptre 20" hooked up to the vga port, running at 1280x960.
- Compiz on the native laptop LCD is as fast as my desktop. Smooth as silk too. On the external monitor I have some slow down, but not enough to ruin the experience.
- (my favorite): I have changed the BIOS image using a tool designed by the bios manufacturer. (Right now I have a musume mecha girl as my bios screen, although other have used tux, etc.)
- I have said to hell with the warranty and upped the memory to 1GB, but I could go up to 2 GB
The bad:
- Had to upgrade the bios to the latest to get the full FSB clock speed and processing power. (This would be fine except according to other users, this update has some issues on it's own)
- You get used to the small resolution, but some apps behave funky.. nothing horrible, just have to be creative sometimes..
All in all a great laptop. I build asterisk systems, and having a 2 pound diagnostic machine i can hold in one hand and watch console messages while testing with the other is great. Not to mention i have wireshark, nmap etc. and a micro hub for all my network sniffing needs.
Just my .02 - plingboot, on 12/08/2007, -0/+26This is a bit special. This cheap low spec laptop is not only running the latest Ubuntu, but also the bleeding edge 3d desktop Compiz! It's generally agreed that Compiz pisses all over Vista yet here it is running on an Eee!
- theWrkncacnter, on 12/08/2007, -2/+27Compiz > Spaces
- zzzpoohzzz, on 12/08/2007, -2/+26i for one... ***** love expletives
- colto, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2590% of the people I show it to ask me how they can get it on their computer.
- minitrollster, on 12/08/2007, -5/+26To play Crysis
- andycr512, on 12/08/2007, -0/+19Actually, that's -exactly- what most people want. I show people my OS, and they go "Why would I want to swit- OHH, cube..."
- thomashauk, on 12/08/2007, -0/+19Doesn't ubuntu support the windows remote desktop?
- archiesteel, on 12/08/2007, -1/+18Yes, but I doubt it'll run so smoothly on the EeePC!
- minitrollster, on 12/08/2007, -4/+19http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2GQxwkUHo0
- suprxtragrav, on 12/09/2008, -2/+17LOL YOU'RE SO CLEVER
i see what you did there,
sneaking a vista insult right into an article that doesnt really have anything to do with vista! - LittleDas, on 12/08/2007, -0/+15This isn't necessarily the best choice for the hardware
but it is ***** awesome - FredSpeaking, on 12/08/2007, -3/+17I see where you're coming from, but I don't see a problem with making otherwise boring tasks a bit more fun.
- Rikkochet, on 12/08/2007, -1/+14Your comment would have been better without.... Your comment.
- superyounan1, on 12/08/2007, -0/+12yeah, i didn't expect it to be so liquid smooth either
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -1/+12More like:
"GTFO the internet
/buried" - justinjstark, on 12/08/2007, -0/+11He states in the comments it is the 512 MB edition.
- zzzpoohzzz, on 12/08/2007, -3/+14just get rid of the xp and go ubuntu all the way... what would you need xp for on that little guy for?
- zzzpoohzzz, on 12/08/2007, -0/+10isn't it just because the screen is so small? with such a small screen you don't need that many pixels to look good...
i wish i could get my hands on one of these suckers so bad! - Shootfast, on 12/08/2007, -2/+11Whoosh!
- UtahApocalyse, on 12/08/2007, -0/+9not just how friggen sweet the effects are, many of them are quite useful. I find the expose, ring switcher, and scale plugins used constantly. With the multple virtual desktops I can set up as if running many machines. Great stuff!
- potyl, on 12/08/2007, -0/+9You can "remote desktop" to windows from linux. If you all you want is to connect remotely to windows computers you might as well run linux on it, chances are that you EEE PC will boot faster with linux and use less ram.
- crapatastic, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8Heh btw someone has put vista on one >< That's like trying to squeeze four fat girls in a Geo Metro...
Link: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1875&p=1 - thewump, on 12/08/2007, -2/+10Surely Xubuntu (XFCE) would be a much better choice for this hardware?
- stoanhart, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8See 1:40 in the video. The presenter is running only Vista with "System" and "Computer" open - no non-OS apps. Switching from one to the other is very slow; rendering the new window happens one bit at a time which would indicate it is swapping from the flash memory, because the RAM is full.
I'm very impressed the Vista runs this well on the Eee. It shows that Vista really scales a lot better than most people would have you believe.
However, the video also show that Vista is pushing the Eee to the limit, without Aero enabled. Meanwhile, the Eee can handle the latest Ubuntu with Compiz enabled, and it still has some RAM to spare. I'm not bashing Vista here, just pointing out what I saw. I don't know why that gets me dugg down... - euvirtual, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8Yes. Ubuntu does support it. You can even run only the program you want, instead of the whole desktop: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtuali ...
- andycr512, on 12/08/2007, -0/+7A family member's PC only has 256MB, and came with XP SP2. I installed Ubuntu 7.04, and it was perfectly fine - only used about half of it at idle.
- kenplaysviola, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6This video shows the eee PC with Halo and Unreal Tournament 2004 on it. Looks playable in terms of FPS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCUm9z0jKGU&NR=1 - crapatastic, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6Yes! Originally it required ndiswrapper.. (bleh) but the madwifi guys recently released a patch for their linux drivers. (tested yesterday, works great) I imagine by the next Ubuntu release or in the 7.10 updates they will push this out as a standard module.
Check these forums out for some user experiences
http://forum.eeeuser.com/
BTW it comes with xandros (Debian) and the repos from debian can be added. So if you don't feel like messing with a new install, but still want a linux laptop, than the stock desktop is good as well. I preferred xfce for the environment, as well as the disk space. (Well more the first one, as Xandros default install on it only takes up 700 MB) - stoanhart, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6Yeah, you're right. Resolution (in terms of clarity) is a DPI thing. So yeah, this has less D (dots), but also less I (inches), so the overall DPI on such a small screen is relatively high even though the number of pixels is low. Of course, you lose screen real estate.
- abox, on 12/09/2007, -0/+6I have a pretty ancient Dell laptop that runs 7.10 with Compiz surprisingly well. The Cube effect has a bit of FPS loss, but overall Compiz takes up a lot less of the system resources than it looks like it should. I love Ubuntu :)
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -0/+5Mute video in English? Lol :)))
- mrsteveman1, on 12/08/2007, -1/+6--------------------------------------------->
That was my impression of this situation continuing forever - Nimroy, on 12/09/2007, -0/+5You can really see how useful is compiz on such small laptop.
Hope those people that think compiz is nothing more then eye candy get the point. - Motodog, on 12/08/2007, -2/+6Jah! Way cool on dé smürgen bürgen!
- dezman2003, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4What 256MB version?
- warden1337, on 12/08/2007, -1/+5ya english would be nice but the video at the end shows just how awesome compiz on this humble little machine. Can't wait to get mine. This puppy will be a perfect little bu rig.
- troye, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4The newest Nvidia drivers on Linux crash systems. Nvidia is working on it.
- stoanhart, on 12/08/2007, -6/+9Neat, but no Aero. Also, it seems really laggy when he's switching between windows; clearly his RAM is filled to the brim and its swapping like crazy.
My girlfriend's laptop has 512MB RAM, and an Intel graphics card that shares some of it; on a fresh reboot into 7.10 with Compiz, she still has well over half of her RAM free.
Still cool to see Vista running relatively well on the Eee - wiihuck, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3is your laptop an Eee PC?
- latova, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3It's a real shame that asus is going to start doing windows soon. Asus was in a great position to change the face of the OS market majorly by advertising this quick, pretty and cheap machine. It's no doubt what Microsoft is afraid of.
- flamingmb, on 12/09/2007, -0/+3Di you get any battery life loss when you up'ed the fsb and processing power? I heard its actually underclocked at 650mhz but can go to 900mhz.
- tybris, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4Damn I want one, but the high prices in Europe are keeping me back.
- inactive, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3Madwifi now has a patch for the eeepc wifi. It should push through to official repositories pretty soon.
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