I get about six hours of battery life, and that's plenty for me. I prefer the Acer's keyboard over the Eee's gimped one. It all comes down to taste, but to say that the Eee "pisses over" everything else is rather short-sighted. It generally costs more, the market is flooded with tons of models that have weird variations in feature sets, and the keyboard still sucks. The eight hours of battery life is a marketing gimmick, as well. At best I've heard reports of 7.5, which is still pushing it. Average seems to be 6-6.5 hours.
3d performance is quite acceptable. I remember pushing N64 emulation through daedalus on xandros on the EeePC 701 quite well! EeePC's are still quite nice, but no where's near the "bee's knee's" as people say. They still have one of the most cramped keyboards, not to mention they are still somewhat overpriced (though newer models changed this trend) Heck, I'd go for the model you listed, its the same size as the EeePC 701, with a 9inch screen and 160gb hdd, for 349.99! You could always tri boot windows, linux and os x on it! Ryan
Agreed; that is a pretty sweet deal for an Eee PC. It was a model I was looking at before I bought the AAO.
Yeah, I think I'm going to go ahead and get the one I listed. For a moment there, I thought the 160 gig HDD for it was a typo. Quick question about Ubuntu: I am only running it from the CD on this PC, but I couldn't install Windows Live messenger (probably because I'm using it from the Cd) Do I need certain apps to watch movies in Ubuntu and so on and so forth? I've noticed that it doesn't have its own animated GIF viewer like Windows XP (which Vista lacks as well), so I might just keep XP on the machine, unless it has trouble running it.
You could always go about installing an alternative ubuntu distro: http://www.debianadmin.com/list-of-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions-and-live-cds.html Linux Mint is pretty well setup to handle all the multimedia tasks you need, plus its still compatible with all the updates/drivers/etc Ryan
Got me a Aspire One last week, pretty nice. Unfortantly the supplied Linux dist was crippled so I had to install another one and as always there's something that wont work, like right now I'm trying to get Audio and WiFi (and it's LED/killswitch to work) and all guides are outdated. edit: (don't want to sound to negative ) Other than that I've had good use for it when I went home after visiting my parents.
have you tried the latest ubuntu, i heard it was supporting all of the one's hardware. I think Mandriva is doing that as well. check out the forums at aspireoneuser.com for more info! Ryan
Ya, pretty tough finding a note book in that price range Mr Casual I say impossible. I wanted 1 too but for surfing the net. So I went out and bought a clunker one that was quite heavy for around $250 used, I got rid of it pretty quick do to the fact it was hurting my wrist, and the fact I would need a wheel barl to move it around. With all this technology it can be quite confusing and difficult to get what one needs. Finally I bought a psp and it seem to be quite the machine, I can aleast surf the net at coffee shops which is great. I can't write any notes yet which is sad, but aleat I moving in the right directions. :icon_bigg Later!
Well, now that I've got enough money I'm going to get that one I linked to. Its even went down $20! Its a steal at $330, IMO, anyway.
Mr Casual, That is a nice price and a good choice, I've been llooking at that 1 and the acer too! but I haven't decide. So far I'am happy with my psp for surfering but I wish I had something like open office or at least a note book. Have fun Mr Casual! :icon_bigg
Well I finally placed the order today. I'd like to have a car charger for it, too, but I might get that at a later date. I can't wait to emulate SNES games on it.:dance:
i bought a phillips branded generic car inverter from wal mart the other day for 50 bucks CDN, the damm thing is worth its weight in gold. Made the 3 hour treck to woodstock fly by with my laptop and CAD Ryan
I got mine yesterday. I was up all late last night to early morning porting files over and stuff. The HDD size is IMMENSE for me. I put pretty much every digital medium I have in my collection on it and still have 60 gb left. Out of 160 something. I love it. My only complaints are, it can't read CDs and animated GIFs and flash etc can run slow. But those are minor complaints. I was running Neo Geo ROMs and SNES ROMs at max speed, watching movies, listening to music...all portably and in such a small device. It runs REALLY smoothe for me. Then again I put it on super performance and 100% power consumption modes, and have Windows Classic with all the optional bells and whistles (like shadows under files, etc) turned off. Its cool that its got a webcam, too, but I doubt I'll ever use it. I highly recommend it to anyone who just wants a portable entertainment machine, as long as you don't use it for super high end gaming. And for the price, man, you can't find a better deal than $320.
I had a new 13" alu macbook for a day and to be honest they are almost as portable as a netbook. Ofcourse its abit bigger but you get a bigger screen and its weight isnt ideal but they are getting there. Hopefully what we will see at macworld is the alu macbook becoming the only macbook and the white/blackbook stripped of the SD drive and with a 10" screen.