My Asus Eee PC

Journal of an Asus Eee PC user

Will we see this on future Eees?

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A 128GB SSD for $299? From ubergizmo: Super Talent is now offering a 128GB SSD drive for a mere $299, which connects via a SATA II interface while supporting read and write speeds of 100MB/s and 40MB/s, respectively. At a $2.33/GB price point, this is the cheapest for SSDs so far. I’d love to see […]

Eee marketing getting bitchy, albeit adorably

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Engadget posted a rather amusing article on ASUS’ new marketing strategy for the Eee. When every company out there is cranking out the same 10-inch 1.6GHz Atom netbook, there aren’t many ways to make your product stand out: the obvious trick is to go low on price, but ASUS isn’t messing with its profit margins. […]

How Tough Is Your Eee?

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Very tough, apparently. It seems that two team of explorers will be taking the ASUS Eee to extreme lengths just to prove it’s durability. One team took an Eee 900 on a 70-day excursion to the Canadian Arctic while another will be taking an Eee 701 4G to the Himalayas. According to Stanley Wu of […]

Speeding Up Linux

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Over at the EeePH forum, member Joel posted a way to speeding up Linux application start-up time with a little app called Preload. Besically, on Ubuntu you just have to open up a terminal and type in “sudo apt-get install preload“, and your applications will boot up faster. Since I switched back to XP on […]