For a tiny notebook, eee-sy does it
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| The eee is an endlessly charming and compelling machine, as underscored by
| the passionate (and helpful) community of eee PC users (check out
| www.eeeuser.com). "A great kids' PC," I want to conclude. "A terrific Web
| appliance" also seems right, as does "a valuable mobile accessory."
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http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/816955,CST-FIN-andy28.article
Asus EEE PC, not just a little and cheap laptop
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| My first thoughts was cool! this is going to be a huge hit in the developed
| countries, apart from its future about a cheap laptop for childrens in poor
| countries.
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http://antirez.com/post/Asus-EEE-PC-not-just-a-little-and-cheap-laptop.html
Related:
2007's most important IT lesson is spelled with an Eee
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| The Eee shows too just how out of date the 'is Linux ready for the desktop?'
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| argument is. Yes it is. Anyone can pick up an Eee with its standard Linux
| ^^^^^^^^^^^
| distro - or with a number of freely available alternatives - and just use it.
| That alone revitalises the 'is this paid-for operating system value for
| money?' question.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006830o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment
Linux Assimilation
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| Have you ever thought about all of the places Linux has been popping up
| lately? It's not just in your computer anymore. Linux is powering mobile
| phones, handheld gaming consoles, GPS systems, e-book readers, and more.
| Personally, I'm waiting for the Linux refrigerator, the Ubuntu frigidaire,
| which will be fast, cold, and powerful enough to churn out ice cubes like
| there's no tomorrow.
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http://linuxhow2.com/News/Linux_Assimilation_Asus_and_the_World.html
The little laptop that could -- do just about anything the big boys can
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| Many people are, apparently. The Taiwan company reportedly exceeded
| expectations in the past quarter, shipping 350,000 Eees out the door.
|
| When more people get them, they'll lose that cool factor. I don't care a whit
| about that. Just don't take away my Eee.
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=a329f567-c3e4-4318-a0ef-c39b58d7e513
Deliver us from Microsoft
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| This is a computer designed as an introductory machine for children or
| adults, as well as a simple cheap do-it-all machine along the “One Laptop Per
| Child” model but which is also absolutely ideal as a truly cheap, portable,
| resilient device to slam into a backpack or briefcase. Everything you could
| want is there in free, Open Source form. It does not pretend to cater for the
| power user but, while file management is basic for the average person,
| tuxheads (Linux experts) can go straight to terminal mode and do their stuff.
| Meanwhile, for the rest of us, this is a wonderful little friend who does all
| we need straight out of the box. And it is only the beginning…
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http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=39
Review: Asus Eee PC
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| There are few dramas in store when using the Eee: the user interface for
| Xandros Linux is well-thought out, and easy to get to grips with. You get
| just about all the apps any new computer has, such as web browser and email
| (Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird respectively), a good media player (Amarok)
| and a decent productivity suite (OpenOffice 2.0).
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4384373a18335.html
Asus Eee PC: Why is it SO Hot?
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| Laptop magazine almost blew its dongle over the Asus, breathlessly
| proclaiming it, “Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the
| planet.” (What, not the entire solar system?) CNET took a more tempered
| approach, yet still deemed it a “near perfect choice for a highly portable
| second or backup laptop.”
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3724731
ASUS preps $500 'iMac killer' Eee PC desktop
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| The computer builder also says it will build a headless desktop, the E-DT,
| which will at first use a Celeron but then switch to the Shelton platform.
| Most details are unavailable, though the price should range between $200 and
| $300 and is being pushed towards the $200 mark. A third system known as the
| E-TV will combine a basic Eee PC platform with a 42-inch LCD TV and should
| cost about $200 more than a comparable TV that ships without such features.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/30/asus.eee.pc.all.in.one/
Asus Says Eee PC is Most Successful Product Ever
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| An interesting piece of news from Asus’s press conference is that the Eee PC
| is their “most successful product ever,” according to Engadget. This is
| potentially huge news for Linux on two levels.
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http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/07/asus-says-eee-pc-is-most-successful-product-ever/
Asustek Eee PC shipments beat expectations
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| Asustek has shipped almost 350,000 units of the Eee PC in the quarter, ahead
| of the 300,000 estimated, according to Taiwan's DigiTimes.
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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/12/21/asustek_eee_pc_shipments_beat_expectations.html
2007's most important IT lesson is spelled with an Eee
,----[ Qote ]
| The Eee shows too just how out of date the 'is Linux ready for the desktop?'
| argument is. Yes it is. Anyone can pick up an Eee with its standard Linux
| distro - or with a number of freely available alternatives - and just use it.
| That alone revitalises the 'is this paid-for operating system value for
| money?' question.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006830o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment
Asustek ups Eee PC sales f'cast by two-thirds
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| Asustek had said that it hoped to become the world's fifth-largest laptop PC
| vendor by 2010.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTP4901620071128
Asus Eee PC as 'hard to get your hands on as a Wii'
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| Asus' elfin Eee PC is coming to Japan and it's going to get 16GB of
| solid-state storage, it has been claimed. Meanwhile, in the UK availability
| has reached Wii-like limits, according to insiders.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/18/eee_pc_wii_japan/
Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs
| in users' hands.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to.
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice
| of the desktop market pie.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html
Asus Eee Is a Tiny PC That Hits the Mark: Hands-on Blogger Review
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| Unlike the Sony UX490 or the Nokia N810 I covered in my previous review, the
| Asus has a real, if diminutive, keyboard. Though the keys are small, it's
| pretty easy to hit the correct one without thinking—except for the right
| shift key, which is tiny and dangerously close to the up arrow. But a bit of
| practice has gotten me used to that. (There's also no CAPS LOCK light, which
| is occasionally irritating.) Still, it's easy to type on—I'm writing this
| review on it—in a way that the slide-out keypads on the Sony and Nokia are
| not.
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4247009.html
Eeedora Impressions
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| The installation process went on pretty smoothly. During partitioning, I was
| pretty much rid of Xandros - the chosen default was actually the most
| sensible. Just one / partition, filling up the entire disk, with no swap. As
| usual, anaconda (the Fedora installer) will warn you that not having a swap
| partition will be detrimental to performance - I wonder how many newbies
| might decide to create a swap partition (kind of a big no-no, on these SSD
| based devices).
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http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/01/31/eeedora-impressions
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