I've seen the little gadgets. In fact my family member has one and it is wicked fast. Boots up in to windows 7 with in about maybe 20 to 30 seconds. And their lite to which is very good as he goes to college.
Happy holidays everybody. On Dec 24, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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