[RINGKONG-MK2]

emachines em250.

it just like the acer except 3 differences.


1. the emachine has a larger hard drive. 250 gb vs. acer's 160 gb
2. the emachine is only $228 vs acer $298
3. the emachine has windows 7 starter vs xp home on the acer.


2 pluses and one minus aint bad.

windows 7 starter was wiped off the hard drive immediately.

[Coop]

I Acer was emachines... Acer == Gateway == Emachines?

I've got an Asus 1005HA, and love it, it can go a full day of actual use without a charge, plays netflix movies without a problem and the keyboard doesn't suck.

Might want to try Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It runs pretty nicely on the hardware and has a nice UI... It connects to my VPN, and works great as a xwindows server for me, so I've got a nice little mobile command station for all of my unix boxes out there.

[RINGKONG-MK2]

Coop, on 01 February 2010 - 03:27 PM, said:

I Acer was emachines... Acer == Gateway == Emachines?

I've got an Asus 1005HA, and love it, it can go a full day of actual use without a charge, plays netflix movies without a problem and the keyboard doesn't suck.

Might want to try Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It runs pretty nicely on the hardware and has a nice UI... It connects to my VPN, and works great as a xwindows server for me, so I've got a nice little mobile command station for all of my unix boxes out there.

That's what I am using... only bummer is I lost netflix.. tried the moonlight addon.. maybe i am doing it wrong

[RED "negro" DANE]

If anybody is running an SSD I found a little app (FlashFire) that will speed up those write speeds.

I can't prove it's working because nobody seems to benchmark SSDs worth a shit but I had upgraded my EEEPC 8G to a 64 gig SSD and even after tweaking, it still stuttered, hung up and was just painfully slow.

It flys now.

I may even be able to reformat the boot drive back to NTFS or even make the SSD one partition and NTFS.

For the time being I am just going to enjoy it. I'll rebuild later. This is the first time this thing has run and behaved like a real lap top and not some sort of toy.

[RINGKONG-MK2]

RED said:

If anybody is running an SSD I found a little app (FlashFire) that will speed up those write speeds.

I can't prove it's working because nobody seems to benchmark SSDs worth a shit but I had upgraded my EEEPC 8G to a 64 gig HD and even after tweaking, it still stuttered, hung up and was just painfully slow.

It flys now.

I may even be able to reformat the boot drive back to NTFS or even make the SSD one partition and NTFS.

For the time being I am just going to enjoy it. I'll rebuild later. This is the first time this thing has run and behaved like a real lap top and not some sort of toy.

wow, you must be loaded.. those 64 gb ssd drives are outrageous.
rich man's ssd

[Coop]

RINGKONG, on 01 February 2010 - 04:27 PM, said:

Coop, on 01 February 2010 - 03:27 PM, said:

I Acer was emachines... Acer == Gateway == Emachines?

I've got an Asus 1005HA, and love it, it can go a full day of actual use without a charge, plays netflix movies without a problem and the keyboard doesn't suck.

Might want to try Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It runs pretty nicely on the hardware and has a nice UI... It connects to my VPN, and works great as a xwindows server for me, so I've got a nice little mobile command station for all of my unix boxes out there.

That's what I am using... only bummer is I lost netflix.. tried the moonlight addon.. maybe i am doing it wrong

Moonlight doesn't have DRM, so Netflix doesn't run. Only possible solution would be to try wine, but I don't know if anyone has got it to work through that either.

[RED "negro" DANE]

If you decide you have to have a DVD RW I found one by LG that powers off the USB port. It has two USB cables. One is for normal power and data transfer. I've found that if I have the Asus plugged in then that's all I need. If I'm running on batteries then it also uses the 2nd UPS cable for power only.

I really like the idea that I don't have to ever power it from AC...no stinking adapters to haul around.

It's an LG GSX-E50L if anybody's interested.

With the advent of 16-32 Gig flash drives about the only use I have for an optical drive is burning music for the car. I lose too much fidelity using FM for my Sirius or MP3 players.

I got the 64 Gig SSD from Frys for a little over $200. It's obviously an older, slower model which is why I needed the FlashFire. The newer ones are much faster and I suspect the support for them is native in Win7.