Asus EEE PC Review

[MetalheadGautham]

Get us a screenie of you browsing this forum.

And try OpenArena on it and see how much you can push that game on the book.
Same For Unreal Torunament Goty, Counter Strike and Urban Terror and FIFA 2005.

Its supposed to manage those games decently.

And yes, congratulations.
Did you try installing another distro on it ?
Does it run Compiz Fusion ?

 

[Pathik]

Yup it does run CF decently.. I ll try eeeXubuntu and EEEDora in a week or so.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Yup it does run CF decently.. I ll try eeeXubuntu and EEEDora in a week or so.

Xandros must be good enough right ?
Have you tried the full desktop mode ?
What about KDE ?
What about Gaming ?
Any game running tests on your EEE yet ?
You got a PenDrive for that EEE Slogan Contest, didn;t you ?
Did you make good use of it on your Eee PC ?

 

[praka123]

thx for the review pathik there may be distros which are optimized for eeepc.try that!also waiting for some decent pics

may be I'll go for this if they ever have a 8GB model available in India.

 

[Asfaq]

nice review!

 

[Pathik]

Imo the default Xandros sucked. Even with the full desktop mode.. So i switched to xp on the 1st day itself. Tried dota on it wit a reg hack. Worked good. No other game. Tried many ides on it.. Most worked great.. No lags even at 630mhz. And my eee is stable at max 963mhz.
Yep praka eeexubuntu and eeedora are custom mods of xubuntu 7.10 and fedora 7. Wait 4 the eee900.
Thanx asfaq.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Imo the default Xandros sucked. Even with the full desktop mode.. So i switched to xp on the 1st day itself. Tried dota on it wit a reg hack. Worked good. No other game. Tried many ides on it.. Most worked great.. No lags even at 630mhz. And my eee is stable at max 963mhz.
Yep praka eeexubuntu and eeedora are custom mods of xubuntu 7.10 and fedora 7. Wait 4 the eee900.
Thanx asfaq.

try hardy alpha(or beta) if you can.
try some mainstream distros like Mandriva and PCLinuxOS if you can.

they will be the main deciding factor for future prospective buyers.

do you think Vista Basic will work on it ?

 

[praka123]

^

 

[infra_red_dude]

try hardy alpha(or beta) if you can.
try some mainstream distros like Mandriva and PCLinuxOS if you can.

they will be the main deciding factor for future prospective buyers.

do you think Vista Basic will work on it ?

All distros work on it quite fine, only thing is that they are not optimized for the small screen.

Even Vista Basic works, rather flies if tweaked properly. The only hitch is that you need to put in a larger flash drive or install it on an external hdd.

 

[Gigacore]

w00t!

Nice review

 

[pushkaraj]

Congrats pathik. Nice review

 

[krazzy]

Ohhhh so finally you did got it!!! Congrats! Nice review too. I won't be surprised if it got featured in Digit as well (in the section where they publish some of the posts on the forum that interest them.)

 

[Pathik]

Thanks pushkaraj, krazy.
BTW krazy, "Agar tum kisi cheez ko dil se chaho, to puri kaynaat tumhe us se milane me lag jaati hai. - OSO"

 

[krazzy]

^ LOL! Still I'd got an N82 though.

 

[iMav]

congo bhai, nice review also a with xp version is released i guess

 

[Pathik]

Thanks man.
BTW yea the XP version ll be available thru retailers by end april.
From what I ve heard they ll also bundle a 4gb sd card and a mini optical mouse with it. No Idea of the pricing though. Should be 20-21k.

 

[kumarmohit]

The second generation one you mean?
The one with 9 inch screen. Its coming to india so fast!
Hell Yeah! Bring it on!

 

[Pathik]

^^ That one is coming but there is also version of the 7" with XP that ll come before the eee 900.
BTW Kumar are you gonna get the 9"er?

 

[juggler]

Congrats... nice review!!!!

 

[Pathik]

Thanks.. Did you get your dv6608au?