Tag Archives: EeePC
Netbooks and Performance
Almost all netbooks (apart from some of the early Acer and Asus devices running Linux) are supplied with 1GB of RAM. Microsoft has further cemented this by defining lower license fees for Windows XP for computers with small screens and only 1GB of RAM, which means that this is the most popular memory configuration for [...]
On the road failure
Well it had to happen, I am on the road and my netbook suffered a hardware failure. This was a non-fatal failure but a failure all the same – the WiFi went on the fritz and would not connect to any WiFi network. Now in the office this was not a major problem as I [...]
Dedicated Skype Phone from Asus Finally Out
Asus have finally gotten around to releasing their Skype videophone that I talked about last November. “Asus has just released the first certified standalone Skype videophone which will make it easier for novice users to speak and see each other. The device, called the EEE AiGuru SV-1 Videophone, is the first non PC product of [...]
Touch screen delights
If the Asus T91/T101 series touch screen netbooks show even half the promise shown in this video, you are looking at my next Netbook. As long, of course, as it has at least 5 hours of battery life as well
Better Defrag
Recently I had a major problem with an EeePC. After configuration and installation of all the software on it and the optimisation of where all the files go, the machine ran slowly. Checking out the C: partition showed that it had a 30%+ fragmentation figure for the files on the disk, notably because of all [...]
Standard App Screens
I recently blogged about how when you are at home you should have the most screen real estate as possible to make that experience great. However I now want to take a look from a different perspective and that has more to do with the fact that just because you have a huge screen does [...]
Dedicated Video Conferencing
You may have used or heard of Skype, and some of you may have used its video conferencing capabilities, particularly for keeping in touch with back home when you are away for a trip. This is an excellent piece of software and is a default install on every machine I have. In addition to the [...]
Redfly – a miss by a mile
Celio is a company that has produced the Redfly Smartphone Terminal since earlier this year. They have just released new update hardware in terms of the C7 and C8N, where the differentials are purely in screen size, weight and ‘Media Port’ – all of this for between $229 and $299 (I would expect that to [...]
Netbooks and the Long Distance Worker
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has taken a look at several Netbooks and has posted a summary video as follows: Walt pushes his review from the perspective that Netbooks are some sort of halfway house between Smartphones and standard Laptops. This may have once been the case when dealing with the little 7” [...]
ChannelFlip and Wil Harris
When I was running around London last week I bumped into Wil Harris of ChannelFlip. This site has a goodly collection of tech video reviews as well as more manly fair, and I recommend visiting and subscribing. To tempt you, here is one on the MSI Wind to give you a flavour (although I disagree [...]