questions on the "ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G"

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, June 22, 2009 a las 08:45:47AM -0700, Gary Kline escribió:

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió:
> > 
> > > 	i found two at newegg.com.  both are the "Eee PC"; both come with
> > > 	linux.  this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of
> > > 	flash/solid state memory.  Is this even possible for $400 given
> > > 	current technology?
> > > 
> > > 	is there any FBSD version available? since it has an rj-45 lan
> > > 	jack, i will be able to download the text-to-speech software i'll
> > > 	need.
> > > 
> > > 	any feedback? suggestions for fbsd-capable subnotebooks, etc??
> > > 
> > > 	gary
> > 
> > You might want to check this page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee
> > 
> > I run 8-CURRENT on an EeePC 900 (with 20 GByte SSD);
> > 
> 
> 
> 	i have that page open [in another room].  all the asus Eee's
> 	look nice, but i'd like more meaty info on these computers.
> 	since you're already running 8 on the 900, maybe you can clue
> 	me in.  what's the speed of your Atom CPU?  CAn you run anything
> 	X--(X Window System)?  also, how far can you go before you max 
> 	out your computer?  RAM, SSD?  I only want todemo that a freebsd
> 	computer w/ keyboard can be used with the KDE accessibility
> 	apps.  tts primarily.  something i could use with the festival
> 	speech tools.  

As I said, mine is the Asus EeePC 900 which has a 1 GHz Intel CPU, 1
GByte RAM and 20 GByte SSD; I run 8-CURRENT and KDE 3.5.10 on it, which
all run fine and fast. The battery (6600 mAh) last around 4.5 hours.

You may fetch my older (RELENG_7) installation guide frome here to get
more details: http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt

HiH

	matthias
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