You’ve probably seen the article about the Asus Eee PC and what can be integrated inside it’s case. But after you’ve done some modding and added different devices your battery probably doesn’t last as it was intended to last, so if you need to charge it in the car you either buy a commercial adapter or you make it.
This projects shows details on how to build an Eee Pc car charger. There are actually a small number of parts so the whole cost should be small.
ASUS Eee Pc Car Charger: [Link]
We’re talking about everything, every device that you can think off hass been integrated into the Eee PC by these guys. All the info is nicely presented with pictures, so anyone with some electronic skills should be able to make hi’s Asus Eee PC trully custom. These are some of the devices that were integrated into the Eee PC:
- USB hub
- GPS with antenna
- Bluetooth
- Card reader
- Flash drive
- Power switch
- Wifi
- FM transmitter
- Modem
- System memory
- Touch screen
- Temperature sensor
- Heatsink
Eee PC Internal Upgrades: [Link]
Read my Asus Eee PC Review
If you hadn’t guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there’s 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who’s counting? We found out that and a few other little tidbits about this Eee PC “New Generation” at the ASUS booth just now, but for the most part the 9-inch Eee PC is quite similar to its 7-inch forebearer. Anything past that ASUS is saving for tomorrow’s press event when this laptop will become officially official, but whatever they end up calling it (Eee PC 900 is rumored), it’s certainly for real. The battery impact of the new display is said to be “negligible,” with 2.5 to 3 hours of battery quoted. ASUS wouldn’t let us turn it on since it’s all so very secret at the moment, but they did confirm some release details. The 9-inch Eee will hit in the “middle” of 2008, with that €399 pricetag for the 12GB version, but other capacities available (we saw an 8GB on display). No word yet on US pricing, but we’re trying to pry it out of them.
source: Engadget
New Asus Eee PC with 9 inch display: [Via]
The pre-installed OS is pretty good for most things, but I find it is a bit limiting for real work. Xandros comes with KDE 3.4.2, so installing any newer KDE based apps is tricky, since that will force the upgrade of the kdelibs and could break stuff.
The other reason why the default OS is not appealing to me is that there is a 2.3GB read only partition for the OS files and pre-installed programs. So you only have 1.4GB for your user files on the built-in drive. That wouldn’t really be such a big problem if you could free up some space, however even if you uninstall apps you don’t use, you can’t actually use any of that freed space because no data gets removed from the system partition. And if you install new apps it uses space on your user partition.
So that’s a no go. I installed plain debian on my EeePC and it works really nicely. All the apps I need (Firefox, Openoffice, Kopete, Konversation, KDevelop, , plus a full Qt/C++ development enviroment fits into 1.5GB so I have more functionality in much less space and much more flexibility. Got an extra 4GB SD card so I might put Windows on that (although windows is a bitch to install on removable storage).
Overall the EeePC is really awesome.. Even though it has a small screen, I find I’m using my main laptop less and less at home. There’s a huge benefit to having something you can easily carry around with one hand, has no moving parts, and can use in any place, and boots up super fast.
Ok I made a mistake, but people do make mistakes, now I’m going to tell you why I think you shouldn’t buy this motherboard. This is a cheap mb, about 85 $, its true there are cases when cheap motherboards turn to be good, this was not the case. The first impression a small box, few accessories (1 x SATA cable, 1 x IDE cable, 1 x FDD and the back panel).After I assembled all together ( the MB , Athlon 64 4400 dual core , 320 gb Western Digital SATA hard disk and 1 x 1 gb DDR2 800 Mhz) I started installing the os , everything ok.
After the firs reboot I noticed the first problem, long boot time it wanted to install the OS from my boot cd, and the first problem appeared; although the bios settings were on Defaults when I tried to boot from cd it said something about “no disk installed” I had to do some research and found out that it was a problem caused by a setting in BIOS so I made the change from HDD acces mode “Auto” to “Large” and finally the Os setup started. The next problem didn’t take long to appear, on first reboot I noticed a long boot time about 2,5 mins, as a new generation computer I expected it to boot faster.
After that I had some problems with the drivers from Asus cd, I don’t remember exactly but some of the drivers had to be installed manually. And to say something about the motherboards performance the overall performance was categorized by me as slow, not a good impression. I have to say I did liked one of the motherboard features very much the ASUS Q-Connector which lets you connect really easy the USB and audio ports from the case to the motherboard. After a few days’ of testing because all of this happened I went back to the store and returned the MB in exchange for another motherboard which I will review later.
Here’s some of the Asus M2N-E SLI features that made me buy it:
- Support AMD Socket AM2 CPU
- NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI Technology
- Dual channel DDR2 800
- ASUS Q-Connector
- NVIDIA SLI™ Technology
- Fanless Design
- Gigbit LAN
You can see the full specifications list at Asus M2N-E SLI website
