My ISP - f2s - is strange, we have an advertised 5GB cap, but I used over 100GB last month, they haven't done anything about it, no notice, no extra charge, no anything.
Guess they're smart enough not to want to lose a customer?
Wait for the new version of the EEE, imo. The 701 has a 3 hour-ish battery life, which is bareable, but the new 900 (8.9 inch) has just the same bits but with a bigger, more power-hungry screen.
These EEEs are just made of old bits that Asus got on the cheap - the 7" screens were from portable DVD players and the 900MHz Pentium M chips that they run on are an old stackful from 2005 which are no longer manufactured.
The new Intel Atom chips will have similar speed, but all the emphasis has been put on low power consumption, the EEE PC 2 should have a lot better battery life because of this.
Of course if you need one now, go ahead and buy it, no sense in always waiting!
Its just flamebait - the real reason they have no drives in is because it would make them more expensive, heavier, larger and more battery hogs, not to mention that they're totally unneeded for what they will be used for.
I don't see why you need these apps loading at startup? Windows Firewall and responsible browsing with a patched copy of windows is all is needed. The only program I have loading at startup on my nLited is the 800x600/480 switcher and the ACPI controls, I get less than 30 seconds.
On my EEEPC I trimmed my XP disk right down to 250MB~ with nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/), the thing could run with 128MB RAM and a couple of hundred MHz processor speed. The EEE has 512 RAM and a 900Mhz Celeron M (P4 1.8 equiv), so excellent performance.
My point is, you wouldn't try and run KDE and OpenOffice on a less-than optimal hardware-wise machine, so why would you try and run the vanilla XP disk?
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Download.php, a phrase which is obviously solely used for malicious purposes, is also still blocked. More on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Messenger#Filtering_controversy Useless fucking company.
My ISP - f2s - is strange, we have an advertised 5GB cap, but I used over 100GB last month, they haven't done anything about it, no notice, no extra charge, no anything.
Guess they're smart enough not to want to lose a customer?
Wait for the new version of the EEE, imo. The 701 has a 3 hour-ish battery life, which is bareable, but the new 900 (8.9 inch) has just the same bits but with a bigger, more power-hungry screen.
These EEEs are just made of old bits that Asus got on the cheap - the 7" screens were from portable DVD players and the 900MHz Pentium M chips that they run on are an old stackful from 2005 which are no longer manufactured.
The new Intel Atom chips will have similar speed, but all the emphasis has been put on low power consumption, the EEE PC 2 should have a lot better battery life because of this.
Of course if you need one now, go ahead and buy it, no sense in always waiting!
The Sims 2 had the body shop editor too.
My Sony Ericsson K750i has a decent flash.
http://www.avantnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=313 :D
Photoshop runs great, believe it or not. Not much fun with a small screen though, IMO.
Its just flamebait - the real reason they have no drives in is because it would make them more expensive, heavier, larger and more battery hogs, not to mention that they're totally unneeded for what they will be used for.
The site is slow at the moment, if you want to download the thing, skip the chase and go straight to http://sourceforge.net/projects/wireshark/
Hear, hear, you want it, you pay for it, we did.
RIP, sir
Specsavers offers some similar material on glasses. You can rub it with wire wool in store, no scratches.
I don't see why you need these apps loading at startup? Windows Firewall and responsible browsing with a patched copy of windows is all is needed. The only program I have loading at startup on my nLited is the 800x600/480 switcher and the ACPI controls, I get less than 30 seconds.
XP Home is $89.99, don't exaggerate. He has it badly configured and full of unnecessary apps.
I asume you have used the shitty Xandros distro? It really is terrible.
Check out Helloween and Dragon Force :) I don't know what video games you like, but if you like western RPGs, they'll probably appeal to you.
The processor on the Cloudbook is the dealbreaker for me, VIA CPU vs the EEE's Dothan.. hmm tricky.
On my EEEPC I trimmed my XP disk right down to 250MB~ with nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/), the thing could run with 128MB RAM and a couple of hundred MHz processor speed. The EEE has 512 RAM and a 900Mhz Celeron M (P4 1.8 equiv), so excellent performance.
What about http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa/benefits/fundamentals.mspx?
My point is, you wouldn't try and run KDE and OpenOffice on a less-than optimal hardware-wise machine, so why would you try and run the vanilla XP disk?
The fault lies in Firefox though, memory leaks and that.
You're posting on the politics site..
Ubuntu is awful on the EEE's battery life, even the custom EEE-Xubuntu roll only nets 2 hours of battery life, while XP will give you 3 - 3.5.
http://www.gamepolitics.com/images/legal/JT-picture-letter.doc
http://www.viruscomix.com/page382.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4773124.stm Terrifying.
So? Doesn't make what was done any less so.