General: Making the most out of an Asus Eee PC

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2008 edited
     

    Bit-Tech has just launched the second part of my article on making the most out of an Asus Eee PC - this time looking at the operating system, making a decent backup solution and tweaking a few things.

    If you didn't catch the first part of my article, I took a 32GB Corsair flash drive and modified it to fit inside the chassis, tucked out of the way.

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      CommentAuthorKrazyIvan
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2008
     

    Oh man! I need to clean all the drool off my desk. :P :$

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2008
     
    Posted By: KrazyIvan

    Oh man! I need to clean all the drool off my desk.:P:$

    Hang on, I wrote some code for that...

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      CommentAuthorKrazyIvan
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2008 edited
     

    :P Can you write some code that will make one of those show up here? ;) :D

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      CommentAuthorcoyote
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2008
     

    I sometimes read the main page on Bitch tech, never the forums. (hence the name) I never realised that it was you Spode that did the mod on that Eee machine. Nice one Spodey, I'm impressed. I will read who the author is from now on.

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      CommentAuthorKrazyIvan
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2008
     
    Posted By: coyote

    I sometimes read the main page on Bitch tech, never the forums. (hence the name) I never realised that it was you Spode that did the mod on that Eee machine. Nice one Spodey, I'm impressed. I will read who the author is from now on.

    Same hear, did not know you were writing for Bit-Tech. :o

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2008
     
    Posted By: KrazyIvan

    :PCan you write some code that will make one of those show up here?;):D

    Even I have my limits!

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      CommentAuthorClubBarf
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2008 edited
     

    I can't help but think that one of those, minus screen, keyboard and battery and plus DVD drive, TV tuner and DVI (or HDMI) out would make an awesome HTPC. Something akin to an xbox running xbox media centre, which I've had for aaages - but now I'm starting to think something with a little more CPU horsepower would be a good idea since it can't quite handle high def content.

    Plus it can't handle TV tuners.

    Wonder if Asus would be interested in producing one of these without the screen/keyboard/battery and pre-installed with a media centre (mythTV or something)? DVD/HD-DVD/Blueray and TV could be added via USB. Also a DVI connector instead of VGA so you can hook it up to a HD screen using a DVI cable or DVI-HDMI cable. Or a DVI to component cable. Hmmmm...

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2008
     

    Well, shuttle are producing a $99 barebones IIRC. But it's a 400MHz Celeron :S

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      CommentAuthorClubBarf
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2008
     

    Yeah, well the thing would probably need a 1.3Ghz+ CPU to handle high def content, but I can't see that costing much...

    Anyone know which architecture the celeron in these things is based on? The one in my xbox is P3 based, and if you don't mind de-soldering it and soldering in a new one, you can get 1.4Ghz xbox's. I should imagine the same holds true of the asus...

    And seeing as how the xbox with 64Mb ram can do media centre stuff, 256M would probably be sufficient (probably) - which might offset the extra cost.

    I still think a £200 media centre would be possible. I know a number of people have already installed the mythTV frontend on their eee, and report good results...

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2008
     

    Well, I read on eeeuser.com that you can overclock the EeePC back to it's original 900Mhz, and then it's quite capable of displaying HD Content. I assume only 720P.

    I had MythTV backend running on an Epia 800Mhz. I have a 1Ghz Epia here that has a slightly different onboard graphics - which includes MPEG2 acceleration. Apparantly, this is enough to make it work as a FrontEnd.

    So I imagine a 600Mhz unit with a more modern graphics solution would be capable as being a MythTv frontend.

    • CommentAuthorBeanz
    • CommentTimeJun 15th 2008
     

    Reading up a little bit, I found: http://usa.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=9223 which implies that your mod might not actually void the warranty as long as the actual asus bits are not damaged by doing it. :D

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeJun 15th 2008
     

    :O

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