The Eee PC is eezy peezy a lap ahead

first, but best?

I wonder...

the Eee PC may have the first, but which is the best (value for money/reliability/features)?
 
Well I find my little EEE to be the fastest (in terms of work) computer in my house
 
I guess it's fine for basic use, web browsing, email, word processing etc... but these devices makes no sense to developers, graphic designers, or anybody else that does something more than the very basic on their pc's
 
Reading the overseas reviews, apart from the stream of new Eee models Asus keeps releasing, many of the reviewers go for the Acer Aspire One as the best of the current crop of 'lilliputers' or netbooks. Available in SA, but if I'm not mistaken the pricing is not great here compared to overseas?
 
Terencek said:
Reading the overseas reviews, apart from the stream of new Eee models Asus keeps releasing, many of the reviewers go for the Acer Aspire One as the best of the current crop of 'lilliputers' or netbooks. Available in SA, but if I'm not mistaken the pricing is not great here compared to overseas?
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Please tell me of one single thing that has better pricing here than overseas...I'd like to be informed...
 
I want one! I want one!
Very nice for making notes on... a guy I knew had the EEE together with a writing pad. Makes for awesome note taking.
 
Any views on these as a first PC for a child?
 
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nelwa said:
I guess it's fine for basic use, web browsing, email, word processing etc... but these devices makes no sense to developers, graphic designers, or anybody else that does something more than the very basic on their pc's
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It was designed for being a pc on the move, not hardcore main machines;)
 
For a gadget this is awesome! For a hardcore processing machine, this will fail :D

I want one! (as a gadget)... :D
 
http://eeepc.net check this site out for news and reviews. I personal hate these nettops. Its okay to do light computing but honestly the price of bandwidth in s.a is ridiculous. The prices of these nettops are crazy eventhough they have a striped down linux. Buyers in u.s have been sending linux versions back because they didn know what they buying. These should come with a 10in screen. Sub-notebooks (nettops) have been around for years look at Fujitsu's Lifebook range.
 
somnambulist said:
http://eeepc.net check this site out for news and reviews. I personal hate these nettops. Its okay to do light computing but honestly the price of bandwidth in s.a is ridiculous. The prices of these nettops are crazy eventhough they have a striped down linux. Buyers in u.s have been sending linux versions back because they didn know what they buying. These should come with a 10in screen. Sub-notebooks (nettops) have been around for years look at Fujitsu's Lifebook range.
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And how much was the lifebook range?

Compared to the EEEpc and other new netbooks?
 
nic777 said:
And how much was the lifebook range?

Compared to the EEEpc and other new netbooks?
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The eeepc is cheap & nasty with bad specs. Ok yeah the lifebook maybe expensive but its the better of the subnotebook range. My mate has an eeepc for campus & we rip him off all the time. What are you gonna do with 4gb of ssd ? And a linux os ? As for wifi most universities dont offer free wifi or there is no municipal wifi service. Lets not talk about the steep price for something fisher price could have made.
 
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The eeepc is cheap & nasty with bad specs. Ok yeah the lifebook maybe expensive but its the better of the subnotebook range. My mate has an eeepc for campus & we rip him off all the time. What are you gonna do with 4gb of ssd ? And a linux os ? As for wifi most universities dont offer free wifi or there is no municipal wifi service. Lets not talk about the steep price for something fisher price could have made.
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Actually you may be interested toknow that the eeepc comes in a few different models these days, one of which I happen to be typing this post on comfortably in my bed. I'd be careful about making wild judgments like that. I can tell you this, my eeepc 900 is anything but "cheap & nasty". For it's intended use ie. a netbook, it's unbeatable: 9" clear widescreen, 12GB SSD with XP, solid build, wifi, classy looks, and with some extra power under the hood using an overclocking bit of s/ware when needed. Coldboots in under 30 seconds, 15seconds from hibernation, and much snappier than my 17" laptop. It gives me abt 3.5 hrs on a fully charged battery wth wifi on, yet it weighs in at less than a kilo. Sure, it might not be as powerful as a core2duo desktop, but who needs that to surf the net, watch an occasional movie, check emails, work on outlook, word & excel, use it to configure Cisco routers, and soon on & so on....!!
...and it cost less than a cheap laptop.
If you have Vodacom bundle as I do, it connects to cellphone via bluetooth just about anywhere with minimal hassle. It's not the bestseller for nothing.
 
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