ASUS EEE PC - 7" Laptop

Don't you have to put the BIOS in install mode or something? I remember reading something about that somewhere.
 
I went out for a while so it is still busy. Product key entered already....Looking good so far...
 
:(:(

Got to 9 minutes remaining and finalizing install and then it just started to hang :(

So now I am trying it again.

What.A.Mission.
 
Saule said:
And the bits and pieces are working ok [wireless etc]?
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Yip. Just installed the Asus drivers that came with the lappie and all is good :)

Turns out it is quite simple. As long as you have an XP SP2 cd, and nothing else.
 
PostmanPot said:
Glad you came right. :)
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Me too :)

Run XP surprisingly well! The driver CD seems to have had all the necessary drivers on it. It boots faster than some normal-sized higher-powered machines I have seen also running XP.

The battery life is the same as when running Xandros, and the resolution is fine.

The XP install came to less than a gig. After installing the drivers and some basic apps I still have around 300MB free space.

All in all, I am very happy with it.
 
hj2k_x, did you nLite your install? How small do you think one could realistically go with this laptop?
i.e, able to do most things, but leave the absolute non-essentials out. Wouldnt want to try connect to a printer for example, and have it conk out on me :P. I am really interested in getting this laptop, just gotta get some funds together first :D...Would be great for those 3hour do-nothing periods at uni...

In other news, TAD is looking for donations :D

BTW, what are you doing about a carry case for the laptop? I would think that a regular laptop case leaves too much room to spare?
 
The Axe Dude said:
hj2k_x, did you nLite your install? How small do you think one could realistically go with this laptop?
i.e, able to do most things, but leave the absolute non-essentials out. Wouldnt want to try connect to a printer for example, and have it conk out on me :P. I am really interested in getting this laptop, just gotta get some funds together first :D...Would be great for those 3hour do-nothing periods at uni...

In other news, TAD is looking for donations :D

BTW, what are you doing about a carry case for the laptop? I would think that a regular laptop case leaves too much room to spare?
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Didn't need to NLite the install. Was just a regular XP SP2 install. Came in at around 900MB in total once installed. I've since put on Openoffice, Vlc player and some other proggies and still have +-300MB left on the drive.

Am finding the lappie very fast and responsive. Am planning on expending the limited HDD space with some cheap SD cards at some point. For now, the occasional USB stick is working fine :)

I do need a carry case though. At the moment, I just carry it in my hands which is not a long term solution :p
 
Yeah, I thought the carry case would become an issue...Still, I really want to get this laptop... :-P

Asus should just give us poor (South) Africans free laptops :D
 
hj2k_x said:
Didn't need to NLite the install. Was just a regular XP SP2 install. Came in at around 900MB in total once installed. I've since put on Openoffice, Vlc player and some other proggies and still have +-300MB left on the drive.

Am finding the lappie very fast and responsive. Am planning on expending the limited HDD space with some cheap SD cards at some point. For now, the occasional USB stick is working fine :)

I do need a carry case though. At the moment, I just carry it in my hands which is not a long term solution :p
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;)

Saule said:
Sd/Micro SD cards would also be good because they fit right into the machine, but a little more expensive than flash drives I think.

Edit: 4GB SD card @ R159:eek:
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Edit: I see it is R165 now and out of stock:(.
 
The Axe Dude said:
Yeah, I thought the carry case would become an issue...Still, I really want to get this laptop... :-P

Asus should just give us poor (South) Africans free laptops :D
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I am hoping that shops will get them in at some stage. Or at least a carry-case suited to such a small laptop.
 
I dont know if they are available in South Africa, but carry cases for mobile dvd players are meant to be superb for the eee... You could try looking into that :D
 
The Axe Dude said:
I dont know if they are available in South Africa, but carry cases for mobile dvd players are meant to be superb for the eee... You could try looking into that :D
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Indeed. That seems to be the way to go. Nowhere has carry cases for something that small.

Somewhere must stock dvd player covers. I'll look around.

You get your EEE yet? ;)
 
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