Asus eee lust

[gmw]

Please talk me out of buying an Asus eee 4G. I have a good laptop. Tell me to save my money, tell me that I'll be disappointed. Please, anything, save me.

[Dave21]

They have the 8 gb coming out so your 4 gb is out of date. Lol.

It's slow, your current laptop will blow it to pieces.

[pam123]

I can't save you.
I want one of the OLPC machines but failing that ....

[jamesrpm]

I'm no help , afraid I'd be a co dependant.

[Floppyman]

You had to make me look, didn't you? Now I want one too....cool little gizmo.

[thefultonhow]

A friend has one; it's a nice little package, but the Linux-based OS that it comes with is not for everyone, and she had no end of trouble installing XP on it, and now that she has XP on it she has trouble keeping enough hard drive space free. Plus, you don't need it... it's an auxiliary computer, without significantly increased utility over your current laptop (assuming your current laptop is not one of those 17"+ beasts). You can save the money towards a new laptop, or parts for a desktop, or a new digital camera/iPod/cellphone/whatever.

BTW, I'm moving this to the Mobile Tech forum.

[kilgoretrout]

Asus is coming out with a larger screen one soon. It's about the same size as the current model but it doesn't have those speakers located on the sides of the lcd; it's screen all the way to the edge. I'd wait for those; they are suppose to be out this summer. They are also going to have a winxp option along with the standard linux version. Here's a picture comparing the two:

http://clumpc.com/?p=5

[tatubom1]

i have one i am on it right now it makes a great moble sys the specs are low but fopr collage and other things like movies it is great it suports hcsd so i got a 16 gig hdsc for it to put small things on and i just use my external for larger things it dose what i need it plays starcraft, my roms, i can take notes, and surf the net when i am to lazy to get to my desktop, and i can do programing on it if u like older games this is a good platform they now have a vershon that comes with xp on it and i just uped the ram to 1 gig to help out pluse it is cheep so u can justafy moding it alot easer then a $1000 laptop

[bd1886]

That little PC is one of the front runners,to fill a nitch,that has been needed for a long time. As soon as the screen is bumped up to actually fill the screen, I'm buying one. To have a web surfer that portable? The iPhone and similar stuff is great but...miniaturization starts going into negative usability (at a certain point) and the size of the Eeee is "the" perfect compromise. Asus quality, size of a book, Linux stability. All that good would outweigh any negatives. (For what I'd be buying it for). 'Bout time.