Comments on: The EEE PC

By: Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:22:43 +0000

I bought an eeepc for my wife late last year. She loves it, as do the kids (lots of fun, cute games). While I was updating the default xandros install, I bricked the OS, and chose to re-install eeeXubuntu - it is awesome, highly recommended.

By: Phil Crissman

Phil Crissman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:54:22 +0000

That’s good to know… yes, sadly, I was looking for an actual icon, program, or option to open a terminal. But still… I think the first thing I would do is load Ubuntu (eeeUbuntu, as the case may be) on the little thing instead of its default. :-)

By: mrben

mrben — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:14:24 +0000

The default shortcut for launching a terminal works fine on the eeepc - I can’t remember what it is at the moment, but I know it worked on an eeepc in our local Toys-R-Us. Ctrl-Alt-T maybe?

(edit - a quick google confirms that it is Ctrl-Alt-T)

By: Phil Crissman

Phil Crissman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:17:51 +0000

@mrben ahhh, Xandros. It’s very customized… and it is interesting, but not usable if you actually want to have, you know… a terminal. It’s possible there’s a way to enable that, though I didn’t see it when I looking…

@Trisha, I agree, 512 really is still enough for most tasks; if 1GB were available, though, I think I’d go for that instead.

Also, if you’re considering moving to Ubuntu as a main OS, check out Linux Mint also. Mint basically is Ubuntu, made even more user friendly, and enabling quite a few handy features by default.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:57:27 +0000

512MB RAM isn’t all that bad. I was running 512 on my -desktop- for -4- years before I bought a 1G stick - last month. And it’s running Winblows (switching to Ubuntu as soon as I can get all 320G of HD uploaded…) You can tell where my priorities are.

But as I was staring at that picture trying to figure out what the heck that CD was doing on the keyboard, I had a D’OH moment and immediately grabbed two nearby CDs and overlapped them a bit. WOW - that’s small!!

By: mrben

mrben — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:54:01 +0000

I suspect the poster above me (”kevin”) is a spammer…..

I too would like an eeePC - there is a beefed up version due quite soon I believe. Plus, I reckon the black model looks cooler than the white ;)

Oh, and it’s running on a custom build of Xandros currently, but there are alternatives out there, including eeeXubuntu.

By: Phil Crissman

Phil Crissman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:24:38 +0000

According to Gizmodo, you could run Vista on it… just not very well. ;-)

But anyways… yeah. Realistically, I think it would still need to have a little more RAM for me to want one. Also, I think I’d want to use one for a couple days before deciding to own one. It’s cool that it’s that small, but I’m not sure how I’d really like using/typing/web surfing on a laptop that tiny.

All the same, a very cool little machine.

By: Andrew Block

Andrew Block — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:58:23 +0000

Hey, HL2 can run on 512MB! Look, I got the system specs for you:

Official Half-Life 2 Box minimum specs:
Processor: 1.2 GHz Processor
OS: Windows, 2000/XP/Me/98
Graphic card: DirectX 7 level graphics card
Hard Drive: 4.5 GB
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Other: Internet Connection, DVD-ROM Drive

Not only does your puny PC meet the requirements, it exceeds them. And hey, that DX7 level graphics card should be no problem, either. :)

Now would Vista run on that machine? Um, no.