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Have people seen this laptop? [link]
Their Eee PC also is a small, simple laptop which runs on the Linux operating system and is made to sell for just $300 to $400. Since it went on sale, last month in Taiwan, the Eee has been selling like hotcakes.
Asus has just announced their feature-rich, top-of-the line model, the Eee PC 4G, which is now available for sale here in the United States.
Eee stand for “easy to lean, easy to work and easy to play.” It’s a small, ultralight laptop with a 7-inch color screen, an Intel processor (the OLPC has an AMD chip) and a battery which provides up to 3 hours of use before needing recharging. Eee weighs less than two pounds.
There is no hard drive inside. The U.S. version comes with 4GB of built-in flash memory to both run the computer (as RAM) and provide approximately 1.4GB of storage space for files, music and pictures. There is also a memory card slot so you can add as much as 32GB of extra storage, which currently costs more than $400.
Connection to the Internet is via the Ethernet port or the built-in Wi-Fi circuitry. There’s a hole for a modem connection but no modem built inside.
Want.
Wanting the Eee.
o_a, man, I WORK at the IEEE and our wi-fi is slow. I don't know what to tell you.
LOL, ZenKitty, you crack me up. You'd think those folks would know! Tommy, yes, it has B & G but not N (are those the right letters? Sorry, it's day off). I remember clicking it going "well YA I want the faster speed". I also remember a TON of layers. For the most part, the IT folks set everything to "default"... or rather, just plugged it in and walked away. I'm going to try repositioning the antennae a bit, see if that helps. Gotta love RF.
G should be decently fast, but the other big limiting factors are how much bandwidth you've got and how many machines are trying to share it. No amount of settings-tweaking is going to change either of those if your employers are cheap bastards who think a whole company is going to run off the equivalent of a basic-level home broadband account.
Also, if it's a g-network but someone is accessing it at 'b' speeds, the whole wireless network will be slowed down.
technically its just for the visiting designers, so like 10 people or so? Wow, very interesting Tommy about the downshift to B if anyone else is at B. Dude, that's like USB chain. How mean would it be to bump it to G only? Screw those old laptop people! ;)
Um, okay....
Here's a really friggin' irritating one: I just bought a copy of iWork today. Bought it at an Apple store. First one to crack the shrink wrap. I installed the program successfully, however, I am now trying to open Pages, and it is asking me for the serial number. The serial number on the stickers on the "Installing iWork '08" guide book that came in the box that I bought today. At the Apple store.
I have entered this serial number six times now, double, triple and quadruple checking my entry each time. Typing it in in the four character blocks they separate it into for ease of entry. Double, triple, and quadruple checking each block as I type it, then quadruple checking the entire string.
iWork insists that this is not a valid serial number.
Bidunno Sean. I bought my serial online (unlocked the trial) and it worked just fine. If you're sure you're not doing some zero-oh switching (and surely you would have figured that out), I'd say it's support time. Annoyingly.
If you're sure you're not doing some zero-oh switching
Nope. None of the letters could be confused with numbers, and none of the numbers could be confused with letters.
