Tech Geeks: ASUS Eee PC

[NismoCC]

Originally Posted by Inyourface1650

Dont worry, it will run WINXP. ......Slowly

HAHA! yea...

This is pretty cool, I was reading about this a couple of weeks back. Best part is it comes with Linux. That would be a cool idea as Black_Pearl mentioned, to put it in your truck.

[Ghostcustoms]

pic of mine next to my headers, works great, open office, surfs the web, almost 4 hours of battery life.

I use it at school for viewing power point presentations and getting hw on line.

I have 2gb of ram and a 16gb flash card set up as a hard drive so I just pull the card out and stick it in to my other laptop when I get home. I love the thing and I'm on it right now. Its so easy just to sit and browse the web with it sitting on your leg...

[bake]

Cool, how do you set it up for the card as the hard drive?

[durrell]

That's how it works, it has no hard drive.

[bake]

Yes it does, but it is just a 4GB

[durrell]

Originally Posted by XEFrontier05

Yes it does, but it is just a 4GB

"The Eee PC uses a solid-state drive for storage (instead of a hard drive), which consumes less power, allows the device to boot quickly and is less susceptible to shock damage. In the 2 GB and 4 GB models, the SSD is permanently soldered to the board, to reduce manufacturing costs. In the 8 GB model, the SSD is a card connected via the internal mini-PCIe connector for greater expandability."

You can just expand the space using a card.

[bake]

Oh, gotcha, guess I don't know as much as I thought. I assumed the SSD was/is a hard drive, which in this case seems to mean the same.......?

Can you put the SDHC in another computer and boot from there? I assume that is what you do with the Asus..... (I sent this to Ghostcustoms, but maybe durrell can help me out as well)

[Inyourface1650]

Originally Posted by XEFrontier05

Oh, gotcha, guess I don't know as much as I thought. I assumed the SSD was/is a hard drive, which in this case seems to mean the same.......?

Can you put the SDHC in another computer and boot from there? I assume that is what you do with the Asus..... (I sent this to Ghostcustoms, but maybe durrell can help me out as well)

SSD is a solid state disk. Its a big flash card, with a SATA/ATA interface. It is a HDD replacement.

Originally Posted by Ghostcustoms

pic of mine next to my headers, works great, open office, surfs the web, almost 4 hours of battery life.

I use it at school for viewing power point presentations and getting hw on line.

I have 2gb of ram and a 16gb flash card set up as a hard drive so I just pull the card out and stick it in to my other laptop when I get home. I love the thing and I'm on it right now. Its so easy just to sit and browse the web with it sitting on your leg...

my daily driver is a Dell Inspiron 9300......17" screen. i'm not sure I could adjust to...7...

[bake]

Ok, know anything else about my second question?

[Inyourface1650]

what is a SDHC? Hicap SD?

The EEEPC has the SSD soldered directly onto the mobo...