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Originally Posted by SRQ Guy
(Post 9337525)
I just oirdered a EEE from Buy.com myself. Should get here next Thursday.
From reviews, the EEE seems a lot nicer than the Cloudbook, even with the Cloudbook's larger built-in storage. |
Originally Posted by ScottC
(Post 9338599)
Don't forget to install XP on it :D
I'm going to try it out with the default Xandros distro, but will likely end up putting Kubuntu on it. Either way I do look forward to tinkering, though. I already bought a 2GB RAM stick for it, and will have to patch the kernel straight away. :D |
Hello everyone,
I am also considering to buy one for some time now. I got a chance to play with one (MacOS and WinXP on it) and it was lovely. Except they are around $500 here :| |
Warranty
Seems to expensive for something that costs $400. Just extra margin for Newegg. Only possibility would be this: does the warranty extend the regular 2 years to four? If not, pass for sure. And even if it does, I'd roll the dice and save the money.
Originally Posted by bigguyinpasadena
(Post 9337194)
Ok-all set up to finally get one of these from Newegg.com
They want $79 for a two year waranty-is this needed? ASUS has a two year manufacturers(limited)warenty included. I normally would not bother-but since this is a new item I am hesitant. |
Originally Posted by Bestbob
(Post 9341980)
Seems to expensive for something that costs $400. Just extra margin for Newegg. Only possibility would be this: does the warranty extend the regular 2 years to four? If not, pass for sure. And even if it does, I'd roll the dice and save the money.
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Originally Posted by mrobert
(Post 9340613)
Hello everyone,
I am also considering to buy one for some time now. I got a chance to play with one (MacOS and WinXP on it) and it was lovely. Except they are around $500 here :| More MacOS news, please. I haven't seen any news of such a setup other than attempted installs, with flaky results and partial implementations. I bought a MacBook Air instead! |
Originally Posted by BiziBB
(Post 9342205)
More MacOS news, please. I haven't seen any news of such a setup other than attempted installs, with flaky results and partial implementations.
I bought a MacBook Air instead! |
Early experience with 4G eeePC... a good one
Received mine about 3 weeks ago... almost scared away by laments on eeePC forum, expecially about wifi problems. Never wanted to do anything except use it right out of the box with nary a tinker in sight. Here's the results so far... everything tested has worked.
Last night took the SD card from a Canon camera and put it into the 4G... recognixed the card and the photo software opened up the photos and there we were, reviewing and deleting. Did try to save a photo to a 4GP SanDisk memory stick and got the message that it was write-protected. Curious. Opened a power point on the SanDisk with the office software on the 4G... read everyting fine, made a change on one slide to see if I could save it... and I could. So at least with a document already on the SanDisk, it works just fine. Skype works fine. Wifi works fine... have tested it now an an airport with free wifi, at a Worlds Club, in a hotel, and at a coffee shop. No problem connecting. Curiously, in the hotel it did show several possible connections at various strength levels (as if it were reporting more than one hot spot) but connecting to the strongest worked just fine. Direct connection to Wikipedia and to Yahoo to read my email works fine. Have even tried working with the wee keyboard... and with a bit of care its possible. As others have said many times, it likely is not the place to write a new version of War and Peace, but for email response (and creating or editing PowerPoints) it should work fine. One remaining challenge... will it connect and project PowerPoints at conferences from a presentation on the SanDisk? No reason to think it will not but those projectors can be finnicky at times. Will try to test that later this week if there is enough set up time at an upcoming conference. But so far my experience is all positive... Last detail... this is a black 4G purchased from J&R. |
Originally Posted by Bestbob
(Post 9344779)
Received mine about 3 weeks ago... almost scared away by laments on eeePC forum, expecially about wifi problems. Never wanted to do anything except use it right out of the box with nary a tinker in sight. Here's the results so far... everything tested has worked.
Last night took the SD card from a Canon camera and put it into the 4G... recognixed the card and the photo software opened up the photos and there we were, reviewing and deleting. Did try to save a photo to a 4GP SanDisk memory stick and got the message that it was write-protected. Curious. Opened a power point on the SanDisk with the office software on the 4G... read everyting fine, made a change on one slide to see if I could save it... and I could. So at least with a document already on the SanDisk, it works just fine. Skype works fine. Wifi works fine... have tested it now an an airport with free wifi, at a Worlds Club, in a hotel, and at a coffee shop. No problem connecting. Curiously, in the hotel it did show several possible connections at various strength levels (as if it were reporting more than one hot spot) but connecting to the strongest worked just fine. Direct connection to Wikipedia and to Yahoo to read my email works fine. Have even tried working with the wee keyboard... and with a bit of care its possible. As others have said many times, it likely is not the place to write a new version of War and Peace, but for email response (and creating or editing PowerPoints) it should work fine. One remaining challenge... will it connect and project PowerPoints at conferences from a presentation on the SanDisk? No reason to think it will not but those projectors can be finnicky at times. Will try to test that later this week if there is enough set up time at an upcoming conference. But so far my experience is all positive... Last detail... this is a black 4G purchased from J&R. |
Great report Bestbob ^
How was customer service via J&R? |
J&R customer service...
J&R was a good experience... I paid extra shipping for two day delivery and it arrived, well packed, in the time frame. An extra note... I was having it shipped to a different address than my credit card address... they called to verify that I was indeed the right person using the card and that the address difference was correct.
Originally Posted by bigguyinpasadena
(Post 9345404)
Great report Bestbob ^
How was customer service via J&R? |
PowerPoint details?
OK, you got my attention since a fair part of my bread and butter comes through PowerPoint presentations. Any details to send along on the "real problem" with the eeePC software?
All I did was open an existing presentation, change the working on a single slide title and save it to see if it would accept the change. So not much experience yet. Did note that the design I use (selected from the standard Microsoft package) was also present. Didn't seem to be a problem with the font used... Arial. Should add that I tried the various "view" modes and they seemed to work. Any experiences that will keep me (and others) from falling into a pit here are most appreciated.
Originally Posted by GadgetFreak
(Post 9344804)
Powerpoint is the real problem in my experience. I suppose that would go away if I put XP on it but I sort of hate to do that. Have people been able to run XP off something like an 8 gb thumb drive with these?
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I am a total luddite when it comes to computers, so, please bear with me. If I added XP to one of these, would I be able to use my Slingbox? Thanks.
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Larger and more expensive. No thanks, I'm glad to be getting one of the originals. :)
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