Tag Archives: EeePC
IBC2008 Oh the humanity of technology
Well it all went wrong, and I have lost the ability to blog. My nice little EEEPC decided to suffer a boot failure, which has required me to take an entirely different tack with my reporting from IBC2008. I will instead now collect my thoughts and information together after the event and post then about [...]
EeePC and the Consultant Follow up
I posted about looking to the newer Atom based machines to solve the last couple of problems I had with my EeePC. I could not wait however, falling foul of finding a review on EeeUser.com for the new 6600mAh batteries available from Cameron Sino, available for a very reasonable price from Clove Technology. I snapped [...]
EeePC for the Consultant – Long Term Usage
My trusty EeePC has been going now for six months, and how has it faired. Well, it has proven to be pretty good except in three areas… all of which are not killers for the product. It must be said that I refer to the 701 unit with its 7 inch 800×480 screen, rather than [...]
EeePC – Real World Use
I have now owned and used the EeePC 701 4G for a little over three months. It has been an interesting time, from boom to bust and back to boom on the use curve. Early Days Firstly I got it as a little device to give me a better email and web browsing experience when [...]
Gizmodo's size comparison – Macbook Air and EeePC
Gizmodo are right about the feature set difference, but they have compared the Macbook Air and the Asus EeePC in terms of size. It comes off pretty well, because even though it is twice the thickness, it is way small in all the other dimensions. What does this mean? Well if you want a machine [...]
Ultraportable PCs – Macbook Air launch
Apple today announced the introduction of their Macbook Air – an ultraportable notebook that will excite the Mac fan boys over the coming days. It has everything that PC equivalents do not – cool design, a permanent fan base, and that little something extra. Most importantly, in direct disagreement of Devin Coldewey of Crunchgear, it [...]