Hell yes Quake II. I have it on a USB stick and play it on my 900a.
I picked up the two expansions at a used game shop about a week ago, but I haven't had time to install and fire them up yet.
I've generally been shying away from FPSs because I don't have a USB mouse and I suck with the touchpad, but I now have another excuse (as if any was needed) to play through Fallout 2 again, and the high definition mod for it makes it look really good on my screen.
Any opinions on the MSI Wind series? I feel a little hesitant to buy any netbook since I feel it'll be obsolete once I open the box... so I want something that's great and will last a while, keep up with times, great battery, etc...
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the keyboard on an EEE with a 10.1 in. screen is considerably bigger than the 8.9? I was playing with an 8.9 yesterday and my sausage fingers hate the keyboard.
... Can a Wind u100 run World of Warcraft decently?
From what I've read + the fact that WoW runs on a grilled ham sandwich, I believe the answer is "sure, just stay away from populated areas if you want more than 5fps" - also you'll need to lower your details to the floor.
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I ran WoW in Bootcamp'd XP on my Macbook 13.3". Same Intel integrated graphics (GMA950) but a much faster dual core processor. I remember it still wasn't silky smooth at the lowest settings/native resolution in Thousand Needles, that's where I had logged out. It did seem playable but I never really did anything serious on it, just "hey look it runs WoW".
Still, worth a shot.
edit: Also, installing XP without a disk drive is stupid stupid stupid. It's installing right now (second, graphical part) but god damn it's a lot of work. Kind of makes me regret the fact that I nuked this thing as soon as I got it to load Xubuntu on it. Totally took that preinstalled Home installation for granted.
I just ordered a eee pc 1000. I was about to get one off amazon last night, where it was slightly cheaper than newegg, but I didn't, and today it's $100 off at newegg!
I am posting on my Eee PC remotely through Ubuntu on my laptop. I will now attempt to remotely connect to my XP machine through the Eee PC through Ubuntu.
Ok real quick is it justifiable to buy the EEE Pc 900 to save 200 bucks if the changes in the 901 really don't affect me that much? Or is the 901 that much better that I should wait maybe a month and get it?
I knew that having a longer battery was worth nearly any increase in price, because with just the 3-cell the computer immediately becomes not what I need.
If you will be fine with carrying a small power cord/using a computer with average battery life, then save the cash.
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Yeah there won't be many times where I will be without an outlet. I can see how the portability to some would mean more battery life, but I am usually in an office setting or on a trip in a hotel where I can plug in somewhere, I might need at max 30 minutes to an hour on battery with no wifi.
Broke down and ordered the 900 I think the money I saved will be nice. It'll be here Sunday and I will be posting away on it.
the keyboard on an EEE with a 10.1 in. screen is considerably bigger than the 8.9? I was playing with an 8.9 yesterday and my sausage fingers hate the keyboard.
Yeah, big difference. If you tried the 8.9 at a BestBuy I'd venture to say they probably had an MSI Wind next to it, the keyboard on that is comparable to the one of the Eee 10.1 inchers.
Also, anyone else with a 1000 and Windows XP on it? Having some issues with the trackpad drivers. Grabbed the latest off of the Asus website for this fresh install, and even though it's setup through it's tab of the mouse control panel to do two-finger scrolling, it doesn't work. It works inside that tab of the mouse settings, in the little scroll box below, but NOWHERE else in Windows. Programs, Explorer, whatever...
I'm kind of confused since I thought they put the touch pad from Synaptic in these, but the drivers are for Elantech. I guess they switched vendors? It's still multi-touch, the little system tray icon shows one/two/three dots depending on how many fingers are on the pad so I know that parts working.
I just ordered a eee pc 1000. I was about to get one off amazon last night, where it was slightly cheaper than newegg, but I didn't, and today it's $100 off at newegg!
Eee PC 1000HA
Basically the same as the 1000H, but no bluetooth or wireless n.
For the most part, the 1000H seems to be getting phased out and being replace by the 1000HA and S101. The one linked above that's on sale at Newegg is the 1000, which has the 40GB SSD and Linux. So, make sure that's indeed what you are looking for before pulling the trigger.
So I'm going to be buying this in the next couple of days and I had one big question for the computer savvy people on here.
I've used nothing but Windows OS my whole life, but this netbook comes with Linux. My question: is Linux easy to figure out for someone whose knowledge of computers is pretty much limited to tweaking settings in a menu, or should I just track down an XP install disk? I'm pretty adaptable with technology but I'd rather not have to learn a whole new way of doing things, so any help is appreciated.
So I'm going to be buying this in the next couple of days and I had one big question for the computer savvy people on here.
I've used nothing but Windows OS my whole life, but this netbook comes with Linux. My question: is Linux easy to figure out for someone whose knowledge of computers is pretty much limited to tweaking settings in a menu, or should I just track down an XP install disk? I'm pretty adaptable with technology but I'd rather not have to learn a whole new way of doing things, so any help is appreciated.
No, don't do it!
The 1000D has a shit-tastic Intel Celeron processor and will kill its battery in like an hour.
If a netbook does not have an Intel Atom, do not buy it. I cannot stress this enough.
To answer your actual question, the Linux distribution that ships with the various eee models is absurdly user-friendly and anyone new to Linux will be fine. Anyone at all experienced with Linux will probably hate it and want to put on some other distribution, but hey, it's pretty easy to do so so it's good all around.
So I'm going to be buying this in the next couple of days and I had one big question for the computer savvy people on here.
I've used nothing but Windows OS my whole life, but this netbook comes with Linux. My question: is Linux easy to figure out for someone whose knowledge of computers is pretty much limited to tweaking settings in a menu, or should I just track down an XP install disk? I'm pretty adaptable with technology but I'd rather not have to learn a whole new way of doing things, so any help is appreciated.
No, don't do it!
The 1000D has a shit-tastic Intel Celeron processor and will kill its battery in like an hour.
If a netbook does not have an Intel Atom, do not buy it. I cannot stress this enough.
To answer your actual question, the Linux distribution that ships with the various eee models is absurdly user-friendly and anyone new to Linux will be fine. Anyone at all experienced with Linux will probably hate it and want to put on some other distribution, but hey, it's pretty easy to do so so it's good all around.
Ha, good thing I asked, I wouldn't have known :P After a little bit more searching it looks like this would be better than the other one for me. Anything wrong with this one?
Do you guys think this 1000 model for $399 on newegg is black friday only? I was hoping to get over to a store and gauge the screen size in person, but if there's a closing window in which to get it this cheap...
For those of you that have turned your windows EEE pc or other netbook to a linux distro what were your reasons? I'm thinking of doing it to mine because I assume it'll safe HD space and run better but I don't know for sure.
For those of you that have turned your windows EEE pc or other netbook to a linux distro what were your reasons? I'm thinking of doing it to mine because I assume it'll safe HD space and run better but I don't know for sure.
I use Linux on all my computers with the sole exception of my gaming rig.
Once you get used to it (which may take a while!), you'll really never want to go back. People will give a whole bunch of reasons, but the bottom line is that you're more in control of your computer. A good analogy is going from an automatic transmission car to a manual transmission car.
I did the "tinfoil under the keyboard" mod I'd seen on the eeeuser.net forums. My keyboard isn't mushy and cheap feeling anymore! Hooray. This also fixes problems with particular keys sticking, if you have that issue.
Doesn't void the warranty or anything...biggest danger is damaging the ribbon cable when you disconnect the keyboard but I'd say almost anyone could do this mod.
Hey everybody. I'm looking to pick up a netbook for my partner. We're both professors, and we spend a lot of time using youtube and hulu in our classes. She, however, teaches in really shitty classrooms that only have a VGA input and an audio input. Will there be any problems using these netbooks to show multimedia type stuff via a large classroom projector? I'm all but sold on one of these.
For reference, I was looking to pick up either the ASUS Eee PC 900HA or the MSI Wind U100-439US.
Both the MSI Wind and all Eee's have regular VGA ports on the sides. Get audio through the headphone jack either directly to the projector if it has a 3.5mm jack or with an RCA audio adapter cable.
Cool. Thanks for the input. Also, I'm probably projecting my laptop ignorance here, but they're both powerful enough to output video to a large projector, right?
Cool. Thanks for the input. Also, I'm probably projecting my laptop ignorance here, but they're both powerful enough to output video to a large projector, right?
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I picked up the two expansions at a used game shop about a week ago, but I haven't had time to install and fire them up yet.
I've generally been shying away from FPSs because I don't have a USB mouse and I suck with the touchpad, but I now have another excuse (as if any was needed) to play through Fallout 2 again, and the high definition mod for it makes it look really good on my screen.
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I went down every comparison chart and there is absolutely NOTHING about them that is different except the $50 price!! What am I missing?!
Bad: It took three months.
Ugly: It's a 701 4G.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
... Can a Wind u100 run World of Warcraft decently?
From what I've read + the fact that WoW runs on a grilled ham sandwich, I believe the answer is "sure, just stay away from populated areas if you want more than 5fps" - also you'll need to lower your details to the floor.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Still, worth a shot.
edit: Also, installing XP without a disk drive is stupid stupid stupid. It's installing right now (second, graphical part) but god damn it's a lot of work. Kind of makes me regret the fact that I nuked this thing as soon as I got it to load Xubuntu on it. Totally took that preinstalled Home installation for granted.
Link, $100 off at time of posting, if anyone's interested:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220368
Let the compulsive refreshing of the UPS tracking page begin!
If you will be fine with carrying a small power cord/using a computer with average battery life, then save the cash.
Broke down and ordered the 900 I think the money I saved will be nice. It'll be here Sunday and I will be posting away on it.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=73693
The hardware supports up to 4GB (2GB for the 1000 series, and some of the 900 series)
It says up to 4gb but I thought that the 900 could only handle 2gb which is in the () so why does it even have 4gb listed?
Regardless, it's only got one RAM slot, and 4GB DDR2 SO-DIMMs are ridiculously expensive if you can find them at all, so you're limited to 2GB anyway.
Yeah, big difference. If you tried the 8.9 at a BestBuy I'd venture to say they probably had an MSI Wind next to it, the keyboard on that is comparable to the one of the Eee 10.1 inchers.
Also, anyone else with a 1000 and Windows XP on it? Having some issues with the trackpad drivers. Grabbed the latest off of the Asus website for this fresh install, and even though it's setup through it's tab of the mouse control panel to do two-finger scrolling, it doesn't work. It works inside that tab of the mouse settings, in the little scroll box below, but NOWHERE else in Windows. Programs, Explorer, whatever...
I'm kind of confused since I thought they put the touch pad from Synaptic in these, but the drivers are for Elantech. I guess they switched vendors? It's still multi-touch, the little system tray icon shows one/two/three dots depending on how many fingers are on the pad so I know that parts working.
Eee PC 1000
40GB SSD, Linux OS.
Eee PC 1000H
160GB HDD, Windows XP.
Eee PC 1000HA
Basically the same as the 1000H, but no bluetooth or wireless n.
For the most part, the 1000H seems to be getting phased out and being replace by the 1000HA and S101. The one linked above that's on sale at Newegg is the 1000, which has the 40GB SSD and Linux. So, make sure that's indeed what you are looking for before pulling the trigger.
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I've used nothing but Windows OS my whole life, but this netbook comes with Linux. My question: is Linux easy to figure out for someone whose knowledge of computers is pretty much limited to tweaking settings in a menu, or should I just track down an XP install disk? I'm pretty adaptable with technology but I'd rather not have to learn a whole new way of doing things, so any help is appreciated.
No, don't do it!
The 1000D has a shit-tastic Intel Celeron processor and will kill its battery in like an hour.
If a netbook does not have an Intel Atom, do not buy it. I cannot stress this enough.
To answer your actual question, the Linux distribution that ships with the various eee models is absurdly user-friendly and anyone new to Linux will be fine. Anyone at all experienced with Linux will probably hate it and want to put on some other distribution, but hey, it's pretty easy to do so so it's good all around.
I use Linux on all my computers with the sole exception of my gaming rig.
Once you get used to it (which may take a while!), you'll really never want to go back. People will give a whole bunch of reasons, but the bottom line is that you're more in control of your computer. A good analogy is going from an automatic transmission car to a manual transmission car.
Doesn't void the warranty or anything...biggest danger is damaging the ribbon cable when you disconnect the keyboard but I'd say almost anyone could do this mod.
For reference, I was looking to pick up either the ASUS Eee PC 900HA or the MSI Wind U100-439US.
So no, shouldn't be any problem whatsoever.
Well, what resolution is the projector?