[SGVLUG] Eee PC by Asus - reading great press on it

[John Lowry]

There is a developing community of modders and hardware hackers, doing 
things like adding 3G cards to the interanl port.

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-add-internal-3g-hsdpa-to-asus.html


Zack, James wrote:
> I have personally held one before and plinked with it for about 10
> minutes.  The keyboard is tiny, but then so is the screen and the entire
> unit.  We have one on order here for classroom technical support, and
> our Legal program certificate students will all be getting one with
> thier tuition, as well as PDF copies of all their textbooks starting
> next year (I think).  They are piloting it shortly... all I know is that
> there is an order for about 50 of them in that department.  
> 
> These units will replace the need for students to have little hand carts
> to carry their books to class each day.  Should be exciting, and I can
> probably report more on it once we actually get one in our hands to play
> with.
> 
> We ordered the bigger model, the students are getting the one with less
> memory on it.  This isn't a machine I would want to work a lot on, but
> for field work it's ideal.  It's solid state (no moving parts), and
> looked fairly durable (the rep from Asus threw it across the room).
> 
> I can't speak to performance but it seemed reasonable in the UI for
> responsiveness.
> 
> -JZ
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
> Behalf Of Robert Leyva
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:27 PM
> To: sgvlug at sgvlug.org
> Subject: [SGVLUG] Eee PC by Asus - reading great press on it
> 
> ...and now I want one! :)
> 
> It comes preinstalled w/Linux, and is of micro size. Just right for
> quick remote administration and such, or being on-call and having to VPN
> into somewhere.
> 
> I don't need it, but sure looks cool and fun.
> 
> Anyone own one, and can mention about how well made?
> 
> --
> "Knowledge is Power" -- Francis Bacon
> 
> Robert Leyva
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