Re: OT: The EEEpc

[JeF]

On 6 mai, 22:56, Giftzwerg <giftzwerg...@NOSPAMZ.hotmail.com> wrote:
> Not a practical replacement for a proper laptop, most likely, but as a
> very tiny, very handy, and very inexpensive / replaceable substitute in
> a pinch, not a bad little gizmo.

Good to know. I was looking for that one for a certain time. Price
and size can matter.
And ASUS has a good track record.

Cheers,

JeF.

[eddys...@hotmail.com]

On 6 mei, 22:56, Giftzwerg <giftzwerg...@NOSPAMZ.hotmail.com> wrote:

> Why ... I bet I could run a *game* on this tiny little thing.  Not a
> very heavy one, certainly, and the 800x480 is going to be a major
> hurdle.  

How is it for reading PDF's ? I've been looking for a book-reading
device while on holiday.

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

[Giftzwerg]

In article <beb1c7f9-a0c1-4562-aa7f-
be5c1c...@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, eddys...@hotmail.com
says...

> > Why ... I bet I could run a *game* on this tiny little thing.  Not a
> > very heavy one, certainly, and the 800x480 is going to be a major
> > hurdle.  
>
> How is it for reading PDF's ? I've been looking for a book-reading
> device while on holiday.

I installed Foxit Reader rather than Acrobat, just because I'm looking
to keep the software footprint as small as possible on the SSD. But I
don't see where Acrobat would have a problem.

I'd say the issue would be your eyes, the fonts, and that tiny 7" screen
- coupled whether you could get the zoom right without scrolling back
and forth.

PDFs aren't an issue for me. I'd say "try before you buy" if you're
looking for a serious doc-reading solution.

--
Giftzwerg
***
"This tiff over gas and oil taxes only highlights the intellectual
policy confusion - or perhaps we should say cynicism - of our
politicians. They want lower prices but don't want more production to
increase supply. They want oil 'independence' but they've declared off
limits most of the big sources of domestic oil that could replace
foreign imports. They want Americans to use less oil to reduce
greenhouse gases but they protest higher oil prices that reduce demand.
They want more oil company investment but they want to confiscate the
profits from that investment. And these folks want to be *President*?"
- Wall Street Journal

[Giftzwerg]

In article <2b7439f9-ea70-4499-90d9-
e459bd...@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, luca...@gmail.com says...

> > Not a practical replacement for a proper laptop, most likely, but as a
> > very tiny, very handy, and very inexpensive / replaceable substitute in
> > a pinch, not a bad little gizmo.
>
> Good to know. I was looking for that one for a certain time. Price
> and size can matter.
> And ASUS has a good track record.

It's a nifty little unit. Very well thought out in terms of features.

The funny thing is, it's not even as limited as I'd imagined. It wasn't
*too* long ago that a 1Ghz processor, 8GB of disk space, 512MB RAM, and
Windows XP would have been a serious machine. I can't exactly remember
the first PC I installed XP on ... but I'm betting it didn't have a
half-gig of RAM. Very snappy little PC, so long as you don't tart it up
with too much stuff.

[Mrs. G. went absolutely ga-ga over the thing. She's got a Sony Vaio -
a tiny little 12" screen - and she always complained about how clunky
and un-handy it was. I guess I'm out a $250 bill soon.]

And I'm happy to report that TACOPS now lives / plays happily on a PC
the size of a trade paperback.

[SR]

$250 for a eeepc. I wish they were as cheap over here. I just paid the
equivalent of $660 for one of the new 900 models. The 700s are that much
cheaper at around $480 so for 20gb of mem cards, 1 gb of memory and a 9"
screen I thought it was just as well to go for it.