Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

[Manolis Kiagias]

Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Tuesday, May 27, 2008 a las 04:16:44PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:
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>> El día Friday, May 23, 2008 a las 01:18:06PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió:
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>>> Yes, I am already planning to upgrade :)
>>> At this time, it is not available in Greece (though I have spotted a few 
>>> on ebay).
>>> Even more important than the 20Gb SSD is the 9 inch display with a 
>>> resolution of 1024x600.
>>> 800x480 is really small for anything more other than taking notes.
>>>
>>>       
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> Maybe you know this page, Manolis:
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> http://www.eeeuser.com/2008/05/04/eeeusercom-eeepc-900-in-depth-review/
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> it has a detailed technical report about all items of which the 900 20GB
> model is made of;
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Ah, nice! Thanks for the link. It will be a good read.
> a dealer in CH will get next week the original US version:
> http://www.stegcomputer.ch/details.asp?prodid=asu-e900-w
>   

There are a few sold on ebay. I believe this model will also appear in 
Greek eshops soon.
> take care, there is an issue about the battery having only 4400 mAh
> (because of some fire in an ASUS supplier) while the original model have
> had a 5800 mAh battery;
>
> 	matthias
>   

I will wait then. I prefer to get a model with a larger battery. The one 
I have now, lasts more or less 2 - 2.30 hours and I believe it has the 
same 4400mAh battery.  The larger screen and SSD will probably make this 
even less on the 900. Unlike larger laptops, I really like to work the 
eee on battery only. In fact having to carry only this small laptop 
instead of all the usual accessories is a big plus to me.

On a side note,  I am thinking of writing a complete article about 
installing FreeBSD 7.0 on the eeepc, including customizations and 
optimizations, different installations methods,  with links to download 
ready-built customized kernels etc. Don't know whether it will have any 
real audience though ;) Most people run some Linux distro on it or even 
(gasp) Windows...