Sorry. I was loathe to search as we've just been shaped, and loading the pages would have taken hours.
From what I hear, though, the SSD's suck power even when the Eee's not turned on. And apparently booting XP on an SSD is no faster than on a HDD. It is with Linux, but Linux also seems to hog a lot of resources and a tax the CPU more, draining power.
From what I hear, though, the SSD's suck power even when the Eee's not turned on.
That's not true. Off is Off. SSDs require no power draw to maintain state. If you're refering to the Tom's Article, its been discredited due to procedural errors.
Nope. Wikipedia, although I didn't check the references for the article.
Anyway, I think it was referring to the early models, and they didn't cite the cause for the power drain in the early models, but just that they decayed by 10% a day.
But I should be getting the 1000H, so the point is moot.
(Still fucking shaped. The flatmate's got 3 computers on, hooked up to the net, and running god-knows how many net-dependent apps.)
Originally posted by Black Jacque: Acer's Aspire One netbook Acer comes out swinging against against Asus' featherweight champ!
It looks very much like an Eee 900-series, with similar performance. Interesting that article compares the Asus favourably against the old Eee 700, but says nothing about the Eee 900 or 901.
----------------------------- "It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself." --GK Chesterton, "Heretics"
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Originally posted by lithos: Nope. Wikipedia, although I didn't check the references for the article.
Anyway, I think it was referring to the early models, and they didn't cite the cause for the power drain in the early models, but just that they decayed by 10% a day.
But I should be getting the 1000H, so the point is moot.
(Still fucking shaped. The flatmate's got 3 computers on, hooked up to the net, and running god-knows how many net-dependent apps.)
That's weird that you NEED to install XP - the 1000's that ship in the UK are pre-loaded with XP...
I would have preferred Linux for the smaller footprint but whatever...
That's weird that you NEED to install XP - the 1000's that ship in the UK are pre-loaded with XP...
I would have preferred Linux for the smaller footprint but whatever...
Some do, some don't. The 1000 model comes with Linux only - they're also the only ones in the 1000 series that has an SSD. The others come with both - the 1000H comes with XP or Linux and an 80Gb HDD.
Plugged iPod into eee, and eee doesn't seem to recognise it, and now iPod is utterly frozen on the "do not disconnect" screen. I can't cope without it all week!!!!
Edit: OK, managed to reset iPod on about the 6th try.. but anyone know how to get it to play happily on an eee? Would be nice to ahve tunes when I'm hiding in my bedroom at my mums when her arsehole of a husband is drunk?
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