I know little about them right at the moment though I intend to learn more as I'm looking at the purchase of one of these Ultrabooks.
Once again it seems that Asus has a good grounding in this department. On 25/12/2012, at 1:58 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > That is true, and the memory is also a new type of RAM which is supposedly > much faster than conventional memory modules. I'm not sure what the > processors would be in these machines but you'd need considerably less power > I would imagine. > > On 23 Dec 2012, at 19:04, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have the Palmbook machines you're dreaming about already, I mentioned the > Ultrabook machines which run Windows 7 and 8 though they're rather expensive > at this time, prices I'm sure will fall. > > The main reason I'm told as to why these things are so expensive is because > they use SSD drives rather than hard drives. > > > On 24/12/2012, at 4:28 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We also have an Asus netbook and we are planning to use it for our audio >> streaming on Sparkle Radio, when it' in automated mode. We cannot do that >> until we address certain strategic problems with the audio con ten, but once >> I get my head around that, it should be possible to do what I want to do. >> >> We're still working hard on our music library and it is expanding rapidly. >> The more diverse we can make it, the better. But back to the point under >> discussion. >> >> For what it is, the Asus machines aren't bad. We have one of the newer >> models to yours, but it doesn't have Blue Tooth. At first I was very >> disappointed about that but I have come to believe that it isn't so >> important really given our application requirements. >> >> I did upgrade the memory in ours from 1 to 2GB but I'm not going to try >> upgrading it to Windows 8 for the exact reasons that Dane outlined earlier. >> The chances of it crashing irreparably are slight, but once I have >> everything installed and working the way I want it, I will do a permanent >> backup of the system on to either DVD or BluRay and then store it away. But >> I think that the future of these small devices is bright. They are becoming >> more and more powerful despite the size, and I don't think it will be too >> long before we see things like palm-books which have enough power to do what >> is needed on a very portable platforms. Of course, with Android and iOS >> there are already two powerful offerings. But if we get a third possibility >> it would only be good for the consumer. >> >> On 22 Dec 2012, at 20:01, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone! >> >> Its quite astonishing what's out there in the market place. >> >> quite some time ago I rid myself of my Asus EEEPC 1005 model and I regretted >> doing this almost at once, not because I was without a computer - I do have >> 6 other machines here <smile> - but more because of the size. >> >> No, the EEEPC isn't powerful but it does have a very nice audio output so >> therefore it can be used quite affectively for the playing of music or any >> other audio. >> >> Was looking round the Net last week and found some individuals selling Asus >> EEPC Netbooks so I followed these up and ended up buying the model of >> Netbook before the one I had plus a slightly older model for £200.00, >> giveaway prices. >> >> Now both these new machines run Windows XP but I'm not at all worried about >> that, at least 1 will take Windows 8 and I'll discuss that later. >> >> Its interesting to observe that Windows XP performed better than I could >> ever have expected on these machines, certainly better than I've ever seen >> Windows 7 perform on a EEEPC but then again I shouldn't be at all surprised, >> I was warned about how slow Windows 7 was compared to XP on a EEEPC by those >> who have had years mor experience with EEEPC machines than I have. >> >> One of the toys I hope to get some time next year is an "Ultrabook" PC >> though I'm going to have to research this topic by myself as I only know one >> person who has one of these things whereas with the Asus EEPC I knew stacks >> of owners and could draw on their experience. >> >> The Asus 1005 EEEPC will apparently take Windows 8 but here's the big >> insentave not to upgrade. >> >> Should anything go wrong and I need to recover the machine using the >> recovery partition on the hard drive then I'll have to go all the way back >> to Windows XP and do the whole Windows 8 thing again. >> >> To our knowledge, there's no way of erasing the XP recovery partition and >> replacing that with a Windows 8 1. >> >> I'm thinking about other stratedgies such as using Image For Windows to make >> a backup of the machine once Windows 8 is installed and putting that on an >> external hard or thumb drive, that way at least I'd have something similar >> to a recovery image, a Windows 8 base system to work from. >> >> I'm not sure yet as to whether the older 1004 EEEPC machine can be upgraded >> to Windows but it won't take me long to find out more. >> >> Windows 8 isn't the only operating system I'm considering with these >> machines, I could keep running XP and - given that these computers only play >> media - then Windows XP does the job quite nicely it seems though having >> said that the network support of Windows 7 and 8 is far better. >> >> I also have the LYNUX option to consider and most of the people I know who >> own these EEEPC computers have gone down that road. >> >> >> >> >> ********** >> >> Dane Trethowan >> Skype: grtdane12 >> Phone +61390058589 >> fax +61397437954 >> SMS +61400494862 >> msn: [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> ======================================= >> >> To post to this group, please send your message to: >> [email protected] >> The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, >> virus and worm-free >> >> To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise >> subscriber options page, located at >> http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum >> at either of the following websites: >> http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html >> Or: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> >> >> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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