Comments on: Sick of Your Old Eee PC Yet?

By: melody

melody — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:30:48 +0000

I bought my 4G surf 2 months ago. It is a great lovely thing i would like to bring with me all the time. Most of time use it to surfing and dealing mail. Sometimes I use it to edit “word” and ” PPT”. I even use it to read books and listen to internet radio on bed. It just so portable.

However, the display is just too small for me. Since most of my work is ppt and excel. it just too difficult to make it in the small screen. And later I found the speaker and the WIFI could not work properly sometimes.

Then, I bought an Aspire one. With 8.9″ display, and larger storge. After a week, I found the Aspire One surfing speed is double slower than the 701. Also, the glass display make me difficult to read. Since I just cannot live without internet, Surfing is the biggest usage of my laptop.
I want to buy one more. I checked internet, I found the Atom is poor performer versus Celeron. It is a surprise but reasonable, since Atom is design for UMPC which need to be more power saving.

Then, I concluded that I need a portable machine with quickly speed, bigger screen. I went to Hongkong (I live in China) last week, then to avoid the Atom proccesor I bought an Eee PC 900 with 16g.ssd. The machine is perfect with speed. But the battery life is just too short It could last only 2 hours. So, I decide to bought a 6 cells battery for it.

Finally, I decide to stay with my Eee PC 900 and my original gateway laptop which I used only twice a month.

With those netbook experience, I found 701 is still a lovely little machine. It performs well for both speed and battery life. I gave it to my cousin as birthday gift.
I will sell my Aspire one. The AO just not suitable for me although it is far more beautiful for design.

Now I’m using my 900 to type this note

By: Marcos Miranda

Marcos Miranda — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:50:21 +0000

In May 2008, I got the Eee PC 700 (2G Surf) model for my birthday. After two months of my experimentation work, I had determined that my Eee PC is *more useful* than my Compaq laptop, which I gave to my wife as a wedding present. As a result, I re-acquired my Compaq laptop and gave my Eee PC to my wife, whom uses it DAILY, for both home and office work.
Here’s what I did to the Eee PC 2G Surf that made it more useful than the more expensive and newer models:
1. Tweaked up and customized the Windows XP OEM Installer, streamlining Service Pack 3, and removing the unneccesary junk from Microsoft.
2. Adding a 4GB SDRAM card into the slot. Configured Windows XP to use it as a 2nd hard drive and exclusively for programs and data.
3. Finished product has Windows XP SP3, Office 2003 Professional, Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 3, WinAmp, Windows Live Messenger, Skype and Yahoo Messenger. 220MB Free in Drive C and 3GB Free in Drive E.
The Eee PC’s Wi-Fi system is configured to use my WPA network and my wife’s office WPA network.
Also, I added a 160GB USB Hard Drive which is normally being used about 10% of the time as the current Eee PC configuration is very satisfactory, not only to my business standards, but also with my wife’s office’ standards.
IBM iSeries Server software is installed on Drive C and configured to work, effeciently, in my wife’s office.
Ok, where am I? I’m living in Manila, Philippines. Originally, I was living in Seattle, Washington, USA, and have used my extensive US-trained computer skills to make the 2G Surf Eee PC much more useful than a much more powerful, Compaq Laptop.
The Keyword here is, USEFUL. I’m considered as “Old School” by other computer technicians. To me, computers are TOOLS, not Entertainment Systems.
As I’ve realized, MOST people that are no longer using their Eee PCs LACK skills to make their Eee PC useful and/or too lazy to have someone else make their Eee PC useful OR they intended the EeePC to be a gaming system. The survey in this post proves what 60% of EeePC owners lack.
Too many people purchased the EeePC as a “novelty”, while 95% of those purposely lack knowledge on how to make their EeePC purchase useful to them.
A previous poster here mentioned about a MacBook making their EeePC an extinct animal, but they failed to understand that their new MacBook makes a great Network Server for their dust-collecting EeePC.
On a final note… Before I gave my EeePC to my wife, I had it (EeePC) running Fedora Linux *better* than the same OS (Fedora Linux) running on the more powerful Compaq Laptop. Where Asus’ Linux promotion failed, I picked up, but now, I live in a country (Philippines) where Windows XP Gaming is priority of usefulness.
Those with dust-collecting EeePC’s are welcomed to send to me as a Christmas Gift… Just Joking! Have a nice day, everybody!

By: Lisala

Lisala — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:10:38 +0000

I love my pink 701. It’s the 2g model and I have not tweaked it. I use it at least three times a day if not more. It’s my primary stereo as well, and I only use my desktop to work on my website. Given that I understood the shortcomings before I bought it, I still love the thing and only wish the space bar worked better; if you don’t hit it the correct way there’s no spaces in the typed text. I’d still recommend this machine to anyone who wasn’t too picky and likes novelty.

By: Marie

Marie — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:02:33 +0000

I got mine primarily for tucking in my purse to take notes in meetings and when I travel. It works well for this purpose.

My biggest complaint is that the battery doesn’t last longer and it doesn’t have bluetooth to transfer data more easily. So, I do lust after the eee 901…

I did finally get a mouse which makes it much nicer to use as the touchpad was a PITA.

As for the Windows vs Linux issues, I have Windows, Mac, and this one Linux and don’t find it to be too much of a problme to convert files as needed. It is much more trouble to convert between versions of Windows office, to be honest.

By: randy

randy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:10:10 +0000

My EEE has overclocked bios(900mhz) 1 gb ram 701, use a 4sdhc sd card and run tiny wndows xp sp3. Also added external antenna connector. Run Backtrack 3 final. The internal atheros card injects packets. So for me its double use xp ,backtrack and i can Break wep,wpa and wpa2. When the occasion arises. I shut off page swap to o because i have enough memory. With tiny xp 09 sp3,Windows is very quick. Its faster than my Dell inspiron 2.0g pentium m 768 memory. Its 10 inch notebook, I t also has a external mod. I use a 1watt ampand 12db antenna. The newer EEE wifi cards cant inject. I bought a adapter that makes a external hard drive or cd or dvd player work with a usb plug in for 47.95 OFF EBAY. iTS BETTER THAN BUYING A EXTERNAL DVD. on xp i use eectl so i can adjust the fan on the EEE. on the Dell i use I8kfan. any questions about this setup or how tos laptopster@yahoo.com ll be happy to help.
Thanks for listening..So bottom line i still use mine. LOL

By: Leah Q

Leah Q — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:29:04 +0000

Despite my serious gadget envy for all the 9″ models currently out there – if I won the lottery I would definitely buy one – I’m having a fine time with my 7″ Eee. I’m still the envy of several people a day, I love how positively light it is, and it’s just less unwieldy of a laptop to bring to bed. I surf the net, take notes in class, fiddle with system settings, and read books on it. I’m quite attached to it by now. My main laptop often sits ignored in favour of my little one these days!

With all the tweaks I have, my machine has become better all the time. Overclocking, battery optimising, visual styles, ability to change resolution, nLited XP, Office 2003 and all the fancy touchpad motions my heart could desire have a way of soothing my gripes about my Eee. I’ve even installed The Sims Pet Stories on it.

Also, it’s pink, and I haven’t seen any pink 90x models yet. I am not about to give up the pink just as all my gadgets are syncing up colour-wise.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:51:35 +0000

The 701 was great when it first came out, but it soon lost it’s appeal to me as I moved up to the 901. Now my 701 takes over the top of the pile in my storage room with my IBM with Windows 3.1, Portable 8-Track Tape Player, and collection of 8 Track Tapes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:43:32 +0000

For me, i still using for daily use. cant afford to switch it to another model… :p , still focusing getting a job first. overall i love this thing except for damn small display.. But when i get some money… maybe i want to switch to another, BIGGER display hehehe, and maybe some processor power using atom..

By: Bruce Cushman

Bruce Cushman — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:35:19 +0000

I would love to say I use my 701 every day but I have never seen it operate. I purchased a non-functioning 701 4G off of EBay for a very good price with the thought of repairing it for fun. The 701 was like new in the box and even still had the protective plastic on the screen. I have been a computer/network technician for 20 years and have yet to see a box I couldn’t fix. That is until I bought this ASUS piece of unsupported hardware.

I have always used, repaired and supported ASUS hardware, motherboards and the like and was surprised to find out that I could not get parts for the Eee PC 701 until it was a year old. ASUS sells all of the parts in the UK at the ASUS-EU website but will not sell the same parts in the good old USA. With shipping and taxes, the cost was more than a newer unit would cost so my cute little Eee PC sits in a box in pieces until such time as ASUS-USA decides to sell me the parts required to repair it. Pitty the poor modder who slipped with the screw driver and saw that terrible little puff of smoke representing his investment(and aspirations of glory) rising up into the halogen lit confines of his secret laboratory (bedroom). No help from ASUS if your American, only European.

I was planning on using the 701 to control my electronic home. I’ll get back with my review if and when I ever get access to repair parts. I guess ASUS is too busy making new models to support the one’s they have sold.

By: Londres

Londres — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:14:40 +0000

excellent machine got mine as soon as they were released in the uk, still use it every day.