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I wish to sell notebook eee to have me. for interesting please contact me

goods still has just, have never been applied.

I wish to sell my Asus Eee PC 4G notebook. For interesting please contact me.
Goods still has just, have never been applied.

Price:$345,00

Contact me:keane_joeke@yahoo.com

Please tell me that english is NOT your first language.

If it is, I think someone forgot to warn you to NOT put your head in the microwave while it is running...

out of my experience selling these things, most people want them just for the same reason you mentioned "it would be a neat toy." no-one really cares that it's really limited... it's just a neat toy.

iStuff are bought just for the same reason.

we will always have two-three classes of producs, toys, machines, heavy duty machines.

Geeky - My brothers only machine is his Eee. Hooked up to a monitor and external mouse he finds it's all that he needs bar the disk space. Once the price on SD cards drops a little more we'll have that one sorted for him. It's far more than a toy to those that just need basic web and office functionality. Just making the switch from basic to advanced desktop makes a huge difference in how people look at the Eee.

You see, before, I wasn't so much arguing that an eeePC doesn't quite do it function-wise for the bulk of computer users (who don't do much more than web browsing with some office stuff sprinkled in). However, my main objection about the eeePC being a good platform for those kinds of users is that it is too small to be practical. There is a trade-off between usability and portability and I believe the ultra-portability of the eeePC comes at the price of reduced usability. Lower screen real-estate and cramped keyboards make using a machine like that a bit of a pain in the you-know-what. Heck, I even have the same gripe about laptops, and they are way bigger than the eeePC!

I know that I have mentioned all this previously in the thread but I feel it bears reiteration. There is such a thing as too small! Or at least in my case, there is. Who knows, though, maybe I am just a lunatic on the fringe and most people wont mind having a tiny screen with tiny text and tiny keyboards.

-Zorak

It's the screen res that is the truly limiting factor. The second generation ones with the higher res larger screen are better in this regard. The small KB is fine for a quick mail or even a slowish IM session but I would agree a bit of a push for coding or serious writing. The thing is that I can get a USB KB round here for £5, a mouse for £3. Really the only one they need to improve is the screen res, something they have made a fair go at with the 901.

UPDATE - Those of you with an eee and fed up with xandros might want to take a look at eee-Ubuntu. I got it up and running for my brother yesterday and its great. Full on 8.04 with config scripts to sort the key bindings, install routine that lets you run the live CD of a pen drive, Wifi support and the nice desktop effects work!

I mapped /home to the SD card and the rest to the internal SSD. So far I'm very impressed. The killer though... it installs a desktop launcher to allow you to set the bus to allow the CPU to run at the full 900Mhz! Oh my.. you DO notice the difference.. It's the only Linux based way to get full speed without doing the 0511 bios update.

Hah! your update was almost a month later to the day! Well maybe it was off by about 36 hours, but that was pretty impressive!

Just out of curiosity, is it difficult to make other distros run on the eee?


-Zorak

It was fairly easy to do. The issue that had been stopping me doing it sooner was the lack of an external CD/DVD drive. The script that allows you to configure a pendrive as a live CD was the turning point, that and the xandros distro having gone tits up!

Booted off the pendrive using Esc-Esc at boot.
Manually configured the partitions with 500Mb swap and / on the SSD
Configued /home on the SD card
Ran through the guides to run the config script, enabled repositories and moved /var/log to a tmpfs mount to reduce disk wear.

The only biggy that I hit was when I realised I could not save any config changes such as theme etc. It turned out to be an fstab issue which was easily fixed, /home was read only for some reason unknown. I might yet need to take a look at it again when my bro does get round to buying a drive for it although I'm building a new rig at the moment and my current box is going to be my brothers new office machine, the eee will become the living room armchair browser / media streaming device

One thing I have found out is that it does need a bios update to 0511 or later to sort out USB issues. By default the eee only runs USB at 1.1 spec so the install did take a while! Overall I'd say it was no harder that installing on any other PC, it's just the HW that makes it a bit more of a mission.

As for the timing, I figured I'd keep all the eee adventures to one thread

You can toss the 32bit version of the Ubuntu 8.04 desktop ISO on a 1GB SD card with this script and run the Live image from SD ftp://ftp.wayne.edu/linux_distrib [...] tostick.sh

No CD or DVD required and you don't have to blast the onboard SSD drive.

Since the SD card is used read only it will not wear out.

Works fine on mine

That's the script I used! We booted from that and then ran the config scripts. I've still got the pendrive with it on for my own use The reason I installed was so that he could actually add and configure other applications. Given the way flash prices are forming if he's still using it when the SSD does die I'll just shove an 8Gb SDHC in there and run it as a single disk.

http://iraq-hdarat.com/vb

I am inclined to agree w/ Linux_0 on that last point. This new "netbook" or "subnotebook" market isn't really about selling computers so much as it is a bit of a throwback to the days of physical terminals / teletype machines. I am inclined to believe that you can't really get any serious work done on these things, but they provide you with a conduit either to the internet or to a faster machine (a desktop machine or server) while you are away from home.

-Zorak

^ Define 'serious' work...

You will notice a battery life reduction, but tell me, is it as bad as they say?

Personally I'm gonna wait for the Atom/AMD equivalent version to come out (I mean the cheap sub 10" one)

ssh vnc for me

A full size usb keyboard and mouse definitely help if you have room for them.

The new bigger screen is a huge improvement, 1024x600 is a lot better although still not great.

I'm waiting for the price to go down so I can get the new one with the 8.9" LCD.

^ Still... a laptop like that is pretty spiffy... lighter, easier to carry... I think I should bring one to school and hook it up to a spare display, mouse, keyboard and get my own non-monitored computing...

The good thing about the eeepc is that its expendable... loose it and so what? Sure you lost files but its like just $200 vs $1000 for a new laptop...

^2 I think they are making 10" eeepcs... if not look at the MSI Wind (hmm looks not-as-good) powered by the Atom...

amdfangirl you're absolutely right about the portability and it is somewhat expendable

I think the biggest eee has an 8.9" LCD

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