Anybody else looking foward to Asus' Eee PC 710?

Well it depends. If the battery life is around 2+ hours, then I'm sold. My current laptop is acting up a bit and that Asus laptop could be it's replacement.
 
Yup I am already sold. Also I am hoping this is based off the old Pentium M chips. If so, with 512MB ram, Pentium M chip(LV and sub 1GHZ speeds) and the 3-4 hours of battery I am sold. Lets just hope the keyboard and screen are decent. Put Windows 2000 or linux which are both light OS's.
 
I would choose Last XP as my OS most likely, that is pretty easy on the system resources
 
Thanks for the info.

I believe the Eee PC will really help the UMPC market take off. I mean affordable ultra mobile computing for everyone, perfect for college students, poor parents who cant spend alot on a computer for their child, and just that fact that it is so mobile makes at such a low price it has already got me sold.

I plan on purchasing a 17in laptop when I study abroad as a desktop replacement but when I come back I dont wanna lug it around to my class, I will probably pick the the base model since my needs are note taking and web browsing.
 
I am more looking forward to the VIA FIC's nanobook. It's a bit more expensive but it seems to have 1 gig of ram and a lot more hard disk space. It's about $600 to 700 though. I know that solid state memory is tempting but 16 gig of space isn't a lot by today's standard.
 
yes I was looking at that too and it seems like a good deal but its a different price range and fulfills greater needs than what the Eee PC is able to do.

Either way I hope this causes a large shift the ultra mobile laptop market where smaller does not equal more expensive when many of us just want basic functions and need something lightweight.
 
WOAH! Thats freakin awsome, i might just be willing to sell my current laptop for one of those, portability and BASIC games (i.e. Starcraft (requires like nothing), is what i want in a laptop as well as long battery life (oh and music...duh). I just may bite on this.

Sadly battery life is something my current lappy just cant do (about 3 year old HP something 5500).

EDIT- Am i looking over something or do these things not come with a CD drive (not a prob for me)?, just saying cause it could create probs for others.
 
At 9" wide vs 11.25 for a standard keyboartd and factoring in a bit of case space on the edges ill have 75%ish sized keycaps. If you have slender fingers you can probably manage to type normally on it, those of us with larger hands will be stuck with two fingering.

Edited since acording to the pcworld article the 7" model is significantlly larger than its screen size. Kinda disappointing, I'd've really gone for a mini-laptop that was about the size of a paperback book.
 
DanNeely said:
At 9" wide vs 11.25 for a standard keyboartd and factoring in a bit of case space on the edges ill have 75%ish sized keycaps. If you have slender fingers you can probably manage to type normally on it, those of us with larger hands will be stuck with two fingering.

Edited since acording to the pcworld article the 7" model is significantlly larger than its screen size. Kinda disappointing, I'd've really gone for a mini-laptop that was about the size of a paperback book.
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Yea, better off to wait untill they come out to see, i've been thinking about them and since they're so small theres gonna be some limitations.
 
DanNeely said:
At 9" wide vs 11.25 for a standard keyboartd and factoring in a bit of case space on the edges ill have 75%ish sized keycaps. If you have slender fingers you can probably manage to type normally on it, those of us with larger hands will be stuck with two fingering.

Edited since acording to the pcworld article the 7" model is significantlly larger than its screen size. Kinda disappointing, I'd've really gone for a mini-laptop that was about the size of a paperback book.
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You don't like the fact that the keyboard is smaller than a regular one but you want the keyboard to be smaller? :confused:
 
The screen size is disappointing, for some reason there are two black bars of dead space next to the lcd screen.

Im interested in seeing how the 10in version later on will be in terms of size, if they keep it 3lbs or less then Im all for it.
 
ST|FFY said:
You don't like the fact that the keyboard is smaller than a regular one but you want the keyboard to be smaller? :confused:
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either way I'm going to have to be two fingering it. Under those circumstances fitting into my pocket would be a big plus in the portability department.
 
CrazyJ said:
The screen size is disappointing, for some reason there are two black bars of dead space next to the lcd screen.

Im interested in seeing how the 10in version later on will be in terms of size, if they keep it 3lbs or less then Im all for it.
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The physical size of the 7" one is just right for a 10" screen. I assume only offering the 7" model from the start is either due to availability problems with the larger size or to keep the cost down.
 
I have one question from looking at the pics, does it have a right click?
 
ST|FFY said:
I have one question from looking at the pics, does it have a right click?
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No, it doesn't.

Stated from an article I read..."It has an intuitive one click interface."

I'm really excited, to be honest. This would be a perfect accompaniment to my gaming PC. Hopefully it'll run a striped down Windows so I don't have to worry about compatibility problems.
 
bass_ec said:
No, it doesn't.

Stated from an article I read..."It has an intuitive one click interface."

I'm really excited, to be honest. This would be a perfect accompaniment to my gaming PC. Hopefully it'll run a striped down Windows so I don't have to worry about compatibility problems.
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I have to wonder how well it'll run windows with only a single touchpad button. having to jump through hoops with every app that implicitly assumes the 2nd button would really suck.
 
DanNeely said:
I have to wonder how well it'll run windows with only a single touchpad button. having to jump through hoops with every app that implicitly assumes the 2nd button would really suck.
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It's not true Windows, supposedly, but a stripped down OS. I heard it'll either run a stripped down Linux or stripped down Windows. I saw a shot of what the OS looks like right now...it reminds me Windows 3.1 with a single window with just buttons on it...no start menu, nothing else but the icons.
 
Do you have a cite for it not running standard windows? What I saw was that asus would provide XP drivers but that you would have to provide your own OS licence. Aside from a kludge around for the lack of a 2nd touchpad button (I assume they'd rip off whatever Apples solution is). Otherwise a half gig of ram is plenty for light use in XP. While the CPU itself isn't being released there's a pm-1gig available in a 5W version. I can't see any reason to go with a less capabile model and 1gig is plenty for web/email usage.
 
DanNeely said:
Do you have a cite for it not running standard windows? What I saw was that asus would provide XP drivers but that you would have to provide your own OS licence. Aside from a kludge around for the lack of a 2nd touchpad button (I assume they'd rip off whatever Apples solution is). Otherwise a half gig of ram is plenty for light use in XP. While the CPU itself isn't being released there's a pm-1gig available in a 5W version. I can't see any reason to go with a less capabile model and 1gig is plenty for web/email usage.
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Easy to Learn, Work and Play
Learn the latest technology without a technical manual! For easy hands-on, the Eee PC offers two modes of intuitive user interface design: the easy mode and the full desktop mode in order to accommodate both experienced and inexperienced PC users. The Eee PC is also Windows XP compatible.

I guess that's what I saw.

http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=7317

I saw a shot of the "easy" mode , I assume, and it was what I was describing.
 
The worst problem about Eee IMO is the 16gb SSD storage. Installing windows xp and all the different apps plus music is going to eat that amount of space in seconds. Even an ipod has more storage. But if you do not need much on your portable setup then the Eee looks really good.
 
ky22 said:
The worst problem about Eee IMO is the 16gb SSD storage. Installing windows xp and all the different apps plus music is going to eat that amount of space in seconds. Even an ipod has more storage. But if you do not need much on your portable setup then the Eee looks really good.
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That's what something like nLite is precisely for: to strip out the gunk in XP, strip out all the useless crap that most if not everyone hardly ever uses at all and leave you with a lean mean OS that's a fraction of the size of a normal installation. You can strip out a ton of stuff with nLite and end up with an XP install that's well under 1GB and fully functional for most everything you'd ever need XP to do, and then have more room for your apps/music/media/etc.

As for the "even an iPod has more storage," that's fine, but an iPod ain't a computer and it can't play videos of all formats like this thing can. iPods ain't wireless, they have no real use other than media playback and that's limited - unless of course you slap Rockbox on 'em to add capabilities and make them actually useful for such purposes, etc. I'll shut up now since this is really about the Eee and I think it'll BURY MacBooks for a lot of people that were considering them. From the first pic I saw of an Eee I was hooked, and I still am.

This is a KICK ASS IDEA and I for one am very interested in it when it arrives. I'll be looking to preorder it the first time someone puts it up for preorder so I'm assured of getting one. Even the 4GB model would rock bigtime for me on the go. Crunch my FLAC files down to Ogg files with super small filesizes, I'll have room for 500 songs on the go and the OS and even StarCraft and maybe Quake III with room to spare.

Man this is a KICK ASS IDEA I swear...

Did I say it's a KICK ASS IDEA? I think I did... hehehe Can't wait to get one. :)
 
Just wanted to update this to include the potential August '07 release.

I have been looking through all the info i could find, and i can't wait to read some real reviews of it.
 
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