If you’ve been wondering how many Eee PCs were released by Asus it’s first machine came out in 2007, you might want to check out this comparison chart released at the Asus Event site. According to the chart, as of today Asus has released 27 netbooks since the first Eee PC 2G came out.
Those may seem a small number considering that almost every week we hear announcements here and there about new Eee PC releases. And besides, those listed Eee PCs don’t seem to encompass each and every Eee PCs released so far. And it doesn’t seem to include SKU variations of some of the netbooks.
Anyway, the comparison chart is a good way of having a glimpse of how the Eee PC has evolved since time immemorial. And you can easily spot the difference in terms of power and performance.
The Eee PC Comparison Chart is available for download in PDF format at the Asus site.
Here’s something that you may take as an anti-statement to the previously released report that netbook owners were not satisfied at all with their machines. PC Pitstop asked PC owners about their satisfaction with their netbooks and quite surprisingly those asked said that they are pretty satisfied with their netbooks.
The PC Pitstop survey ranked the top nine netbooks based on user satisfaction and results showed that the MSI Wind U100 is the top choice among those who were surveyed. The MSI Wind U100 got a 3.49 satisfaction rating on a scale of 1 to 4. This is then followed by the Eee PC 1000HE, Samsung NC10, Eee PC 1000H and so on.
The PC Pitstop survey asked the following questions to the PC owners:
How satisfied are you with this PC?
Is this PC running slow?
Is this PC hanging or requiring frequent reboots?
And the survey was not done exclusively for netbook owners, but due to the many respondents who were netbook users, PC Pitstop aggregated their data and came up with the cluster on netbook owners.
How about you our dear readers? Are you satisfied with your netbook?
At first, it would seem to be a tempting offer. Imagine attending a conference where you can take home a free netbook afterwards? And it’s not just ordinary netbook, it’s the sleek looking and high-performing HP Mini 2140.
Well, that’s probably what Microsoft had in mind, announcing that it will be giving away HP Mini 2140 to attendees of the upcoming TechED Australia Conference. During the conference, attendees will be given the option whether they want to take the HP Mini 2140 or donate it to a community sector sponsored by a Microsoft initiative. Well, this one goes out for those who have a good heart and don’t have a need for a netbook.
Either way, attendees to the TechEd even will still have to pay the conference fee of around $1,399.
What do you think? Good incentive to attend the conference? And in case you will attend, will take home the HP Mini 2140 or donate it to charity?
Netbook Italia just got their hands on a spunking new Eee PC 1101HA. And guess what they’ve found out? According to Netbook Italia, you can actually overclock the BIOS of the 1101HA up to 32% to make its processor work like a standard Intel Atom N270. In case you may have forgotten, the Eee PC 1101HA only got a slower Atom Z520 1.33GHz for its CPU.
Interestingly, this could probably the reason why the 11.6-inch 1101HA comes with a cooling fan inside. This was probably build in anticipation of users overclocking this netbook later on. Overclocking the BIOS of your Eee PC would have the tendency to run it on hot temperature. So that cooling fan might actually help.
Interested to try it out with your Eee PC 1101HA? Check out how Netbook Italia did it with their 1101HA.
I really admire modders and hackers (in the good sense of the word) for their patience, perseverance and determination in modifying netbooks, or any PC for that matter just to make it more useful. Take the case of this one modder who patiently implanted his Eee PC 901 with the trackball of his Apple mouse onto the palm rest of his Eee PC. It took a lot of effort really to get this thing to work. Good thing is, this modder is already a veteran when in comes to this things.
We’ve learned that he previously hacked with Eee PC to put GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, FM transmitter, SDHC card reader, modem, USB hub and of course 2GB RAM to the same Eee PC. How I wish I have the skills and the tenacity to do those things to my Eee PC 701, then I wouldn’t have sold it.
Anyway, the guy has this video to prove that he really did put a trackball onto his Eee PC 901. Enjoy the video.
Click here if you want to emulate what the modder did to his Eee PC 901.
A hack and instructions on how to perform it, show users how to add 3G into their Samsung NC10. The downside to the hack however is that you use the WiFi. The WiFi adapter is switched for a 3G modem instead. The hack is very easy to perform though and WiFi can be replaced with a USB WiFi dongle, giving you the best of both worlds, espcially if you find you use both a lot.
The hardest part is taking the case off and opening it up. Once inside the WiFi adapter can be popped out and replaced with the 3G modem. Additional modification could also be made on the netbook, to allow easy SIM swapping by making a small hole in the bottom and soldering the 3G modem in, as jkkmobile have done to a Dell Mini 9. You can view the steps here.
Asus seems to have came out with a bestselling Eee PC again. If Amazon’s bestsellers in Computers and PC Hardware is any indication, the Eee PC 1005HA has topped the list occupying both 1 and 2 slot for the black and blue models.
The last time Amazon held this position was when the Eee PC 1000HE was released. And it held the spot for several months. Would the Eee PC 1005HA repeat the same feat for Asus? Only time can tell. But you can certainly make that happen if you buy the Eee PC 1005HA at Amazon.
If you haven’t decided yet, let me refresh you with the key specs of the Eee PC 1005HA - Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Windows XP, and other standard netbook features. But of course the major feature of this netbook has got to be the 10.5 hours battery life. That is enough reason to get this netbook over its competitors.
Asus have been phasing out their 7 inch netbook models for a while now, with 8.9 inch models speculated to follow, in favour of 10 inch display models. Digitimes have reported that both 7 inch and 8.9 inch models have received a price cut to “clear inventory”. The 7 inch model is available for $4,999 TWD ($153) instead of $6,999 TWD ($214). In China, the Asus Eee PC 900A price has been slashed to 1,499 Yuan ($219).
Still looking for that $199 netbook? Well, AT&T and computer retailer CDW might just make your dream come true. CDW is now offering subsidized Acer and HP netbook that even comes with 3G module.
Sounds good right? But that goes out with a catch of course. The thing is, you can get this offer if you agree to be bounded by a 2-year AT&T service plan.
So, with a $199 cash-out to get a netbook, AT&T is practically subsidizing around$150 of your costs for getting the netbook. To offer this promo AT&T will charge you with either a $60 per month LaptopConnect plan which would come with 5GB of data. The thing is, if you exceed this limit you will have to pay 49 cents for each gigabyte of domestic data.
If you’re outside of the U.S. and if you country qualifies, you can also get the subsidized deal for $140 a month 2-year contract with 100MB data and $230 per month with 200MB data. If you exceed this data quota, you will have to pay $19.97 per MB and $20,447 per GB. Now that’s an awful lot of money, right?
What do you think? Sounds like a good package deal?
Alright folks one of Asus Seashell Eee PC is finally arriving on U.S. soil via Amazon. If you’ve pre-ordered this before, expect to receive your Eee PC 1005HA in a couple of days.
But if you fail to pre-order you can still grab this slim Eee PC as Amazon seems to have a stock full in their inventory.
You can choose between two SKUs of the Eee PC 1005HA. First is the 1005HA-P which comes with a 1.66GHz N280 Atom processor, a 6-cell 5600mAH battery, a glossy screen, Bluetooth and 1.3MP webcam and goes for $389.99.
The other SKU, Eee PC 1005HA-V comes with a 1.6GHz N270 Atom procesor, 6-cell 4400mAh battery, 0.3MP webcam, and matte display. This one goes out for $349.99.
So, what’s in going to be for you folksies? 1005HA-P or 1005HA-V?
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