ASUS Eee Laptop
 

I think I want one of these things. Tired of lugging around the Acer 4400. THe Acer is good, don't get me wrong, but to tell you the truth, I hardly need that ATI x700 or ML-30 CPU while on the road. I think I played Dangerous Waters on it once since I've had it.

This tiny Asus Eee only costs less than $500, weighs in at only 2 pounds, has 1 GB of RAM, and has a SSD HD - no mechanical parts means long battery life and no shock crashes! SSD's are also pretty fast last time I checked, easily outpacing a WD Raptor in speed. It is only 8 GB storage, but for some basic apps, and a game or two, that or more than plenty. COmes with Linux installed, but I think I'd change it back over to XP Pro or something.

Figured I'd share at least in case someone wants a cheap ultra portable laptop:

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...07&modelmenu=1

-S

http://eeepc.asus.com/global/images/subbanner-eeepc.jpg

http://www.asus.com/999/images/produ.../EeePC4G-1.jpg

I think this is a great idea. I can imagine parents would find these a good purchase for their kids in school.

The 4 GB version with 512 MB RAM only costs $320 on the street, so yeah, that would make a good purchase for kids.

Complete specs:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5348/eeefu5.gif

They sold out of them here in Australia when they released them. Many sellers are trying to get more stock before Christmas.

I can see Microsolf trying to come up with a OS that can run on it (Excuse me for a second, HA!HA!HA!HA!:rotfl::rotfl:, thanks, I feel better now!)

Soulds like the laptop will be fighting with the Wii over which will be more popular and who can get them this christmas!

Yeaj, I'm going to pick up one of these at some point, I already have a fairly small laptop for on my travels, but having one of this size would be really great and mean I could ditch the 'rucksack bag' I have for it and shove it in my suitcase wiith everything else.

:D Chock

And you can't beat the price! :D The 8 GB version is a must though. Can't see 4 GB being all that useful. I installed a Gentoo installation the other day and I used 6 GB for that. On this little laptop, that would be fine given 2 Gb to store files.

-S

More importantly, can it run SH3? :hmm:

Doubt it. It has an Intel shared RAM chipset based GPU - not much for graphics horsepower.

-S