Tag: eee pc

What’s The Perfect Computer For Le Web?

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Before flying over to Las Vegas for Blogworld, I was looking at my carry-on bag and trying to decide if bringing my full laptop was a good idea. Would I really use it while I was travelling? While I was at the conference? In the downtime in the evenings and mornings? In the end I did take it, partly as a massive file storage for TV episodes and films to watch (via the PSP) and so I’d have a full editing suite if I decided to do any recording. How many media files did I transfer? Three. How much editing

Why Windows 7 Will Kill The Netbook Market

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It’s fascinating watching people come to terms with the craze for netbooks. As the costs of the units drop to commodity levels, the space for profit is being squeezed both by the retail price target of £200, and the generic components being used in the machines. Even with a 20% profit on all components, that means there’s only £40 to be shared round all partners on a typical netbook. So anyone getting involved in the space is going to have to hope for either a massive volume of sales, or the customers happy to put up with an increase in

Installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the Asus EEE PC

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My recent trip to Dublin (to speak at Mobile Monday Dublin) was a little watershed moment. I pretty much committed to the Asus EEE 901 completely. Unlike previous overnight trips (eg the Birmingham Social Coffee events), I had a fair amount of work that I was still going to be doing while away, including writing up the MoMoDub talk and accompanying PowerPoint presentation. The EEE was going to be the only workhorse with me. Needless to say, it passed with flying colours. In terms of Operating Systems, as the EEE left for these trips it was still able to dual

Twhirl Running on Asus EEE PC (Linux)

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So the last few weeks I’ve been tinkering around with a new Asus ‘Netbook’ mini laptop; specifically the EEE 901 Linux version. I’ll have more in-depth thoughts on it shortly (but it’ll boil down to the thing is called a netbook, and if you waved a wand over a Psion Netbook to bring it up to date with the modern world, this is what you’d get). Anyway, I’m pretty pleased with the hacking on it today, as I finally got the Twitter client Twhirl running on the EEE with no nasty terminal command lines or shell windows popping up getting