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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 328 |
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| It was supposed to come out in August.
I've seen no recent news on this device.
Bummer.  |
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 317 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| Update information is found at: http://www.eeeuser.com/wiki/eee_pc_701
There is an active Asus Eee PC forum at the above site.
Asustek has placed its first North American advertisement for the Eee PC in
the November, 2007 PC World magazine on page 130. The ad includes a
photo of a teenaged model holding the Eee PC. Readers are invited to visit
a Asus site for information: usa.asus.com/eeepc ... I could not view the site. It
is currently buggy.
The PC has been available in Indonesia and Hong Kong (in Chinese language
format ) for a few months. It was released recently in UK. The North American
versions will not includea $199 model but begins at $259 and ranges to a $399
model (manufcturer's suggested Retail. )
--Bruised Edited by bruisedquasar 2007-10-07 11:33 PM
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
Location: | Canada | Status: | |
| This little device looks very nice, I cant wait for the Canadian release! |
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
Location: | Canada | Status: | |
| how would one use a cd drive on this?  |
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 1,278 |
Location: | Silicon Valley, USA | Status: | |
| I guess, a CD drive with USB will do. |
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
Location: | Canada | Status: | |
| Quote CAuser - 2007-10-09 6:34 PM
I guess, a CD drive with USB will do.
Say I got one then decided to install XP on it, how would I go about that though? |
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 1,054 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| Quote macmee - 2007-10-09 9:48 PM
Quote CAuser - 2007-10-09 6:34 PM
I guess, a CD drive with USB will do.
Say I got one then decided to install XP on it, how would I go about that though?
You would start by hoping it allows booting to USB devices.  |
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
Location: | Canada | Status: | |
| Quote mscdex - 2007-10-10 1:38 AM
Quote macmee - 2007-10-09 9:48 PM
Quote CAuser - 2007-10-09 6:34 PM
I guess, a CD drive with USB will do.
Say I got one then decided to install XP on it, how would I go about that though?
You would start by hoping it allows booting to USB devices.
That's the only thing one could hope for if they want XP isn't it? I doubt you can run the installation executable for XP one it's booted up in linux . |
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It is able to boot from Internal flash, SD card, USB flash, USB Hard drive... etc... etc....
I will probs have a mobile USB2 HDD for odd occasions when I need XP (or a cutdown mobile HDD case with dual CF mod)....
John
Edited by mr-mac 2007-10-10 9:00 AM
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
Location: | Canada | Status: | |
| Quote mr-mac - 2007-10-10 10:00 AM
Apparently...
It is able to boot from Internal flash, SD card, USB flash, USB Hard drive... etc... etc....
I will probs have a mobile USB2 HDD for odd occasions when I need XP (or a cutdown mobile HDD case with dual CF mod)....
John
I am thinking of getting one, then putting XP on it. Very portable! |
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| Quote macmee - 2007-10-10 8:27 PM
Quote mr-mac - 2007-10-10 10:00 AM
Apparently...
It is able to boot from Internal flash, SD card, USB flash, USB Hard drive... etc... etc....
I will probs have a mobile USB2 HDD for odd occasions when I need XP (or a cutdown mobile HDD case with dual CF mod)....
John
I am thinking of getting one, then putting XP on it. Very portable!
I am going to keep the original linux. Firefox, Ami, Openoffice rtc. should run great and I will, as I mentioned, pop XP on an external device (not decided what device yet ) for the small occasions I may need to run windows programs.
As I said in the thread in the linux forum though this isn't to replace my Sig3 more like an ultraportable laptop replacement for me (to replace my IBM X21 ).
My only tiny gripe is a pentium mobile surely wouldn't have been that much more expensive and the cache would have helped it even more (still for linux it should be zippy enough ) my X20 only runs P3 800 with speedstep and it is zippy enough for most tasks.
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
Location: | Canada | Status: | |
| I am unable to find a store in Canada that will sell these. They're supposed to be sold here but where?
And does it have PCMCIA support?
Edited by macmee 2007-10-12 3:19 PM
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H/PC Philosopher Posts: | 317 |
Location: | United States | Status: | |
| Asus, according to Reuters news service, announced a November
1st release date for Canada and USA. Two major outlets for the
Eee is Best Buy and NewEgg.com...
Asus now plans to sell several million units in Canada & US in 2008.
It also appears Asus will not ship the bottom 2GB units and maybe not the 4GB units to USA or Canada as the 2 GB cannot install XP and programs and the 4GB probably will not satisfy XP users.
It appears the 8GB unit will be the base model for North America.
Next year a 32GB version will be avaiable.
All three, the 2, 4, and 8GB are already available in Taiwan, Indonesia and Hong Kong markets. A lot of them are already Linux literate. It appears all three versions will be released in Japan. Young Japanese
are more familiar with Sharp Linux (most Japanese school kids own and use Sharp Zaurus handhelds which are Sharp Linux)
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H/PC Sensei Posts: | 754 |
Location: | Canada | Status: | |
| Quote bruisedquasar - 2007-10-12 7:25 PM
Asus, according to Reuters news service, announced a November
1st release date for Canada and USA. Two major outlets for the
Eee is Best Buy and NewEgg.com...
Asus now plans to sell several million units in Canada & US in 2008.
It also appears Asus will not ship the bottom 2GB units and maybe not the 4GB units to USA or Canada as the 2 GB cannot install XP and programs and the 4GB probably will not satisfy XP users.
It appears the 8GB unit will be the base model for North America.
Next year a 32GB version will be avaiable.
All three, the 2, 4, and 8GB are already available in Taiwan, Indonesia and Hong Kong markets. A lot of them are already Linux literate. It appears all three versions will be released in Japan. Young Japanese
are more familiar with Sharp Linux (most Japanese school kids own and use Sharp Zaurus handhelds which are Sharp Linux)
--Bruised
You can run XP on 2gig :S. What's the price of 8 gig  ? |
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H/PC Newbie Posts: | 20 |
Location: | Brooklyn, NY | Status: | |
| I really hate how Asus has decided to not even give the U.S. a choice of linux based cheaper machines, just because "most people here are linux illiterate." Do they also not understand that America is largely full of cheap/frugal people who like to make a deal? Also, I don't understand what the big deal of using Linux is. It's just a slightly different way of doing things, especially where the eee is concerned, just a different GUI, same apps. |
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