Asus eeePC Mod Workshop

[renderman]

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If anyone is looking to easily add bluetooth, a local store had these on for $25:

http://www.directron.com/btdv201.html

It's as small as it looks and works in Linux. Could probably be easily adapted for internal mounting

It's a CSR radio and works with the Bluez stack. No digging out a noticeable adapter when I want to be a jerk in an airport!

[noid]

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Target.com has the 2GB 'Surf' EEE PC models for 250 bucks. Just thought I'd pass it along. I was thinking of getting one, but I'm currently preoccupied with upgrading my ruggedized notebook.

[Partison]

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Amazon is carrying them now too. Tax if you are in WA but the price is still pretty low. Newegg seems to have raised their price on the 1000H!

Yeah I saw that when I was about to order mine. I hopped over to pricewatch and found it for $525, fluke of some sort to find that price I guess.

I haven't done anything physical to mine yet, still looking for ideas. Spent the first weekend with mine installing Ubuntu on it and configuring all the function keys. Still haven't enabled onboard LAN...

I haven't monkied with the onboard LAN yet but I was playing with the wireless card last night and come to find out the RT2860 doesn't support packet injection. A lot of forums are suggesting you just swap out the card for one that does. I opened up mine last night and it looks like a super easy swap.

Cheers

[nerdgir1]

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Amazon is carrying them now too. Tax if you are in WA but the price is still pretty low. Newegg seems to have raised their price on the 1000H! I got mine for $560 incl second day air but now they are about $100 more. Even with sales tax it was still cheaper to get my boyfriend one off Amazon ($4 overnight with Amazon Prime).

I haven't done anything physical to mine yet, still looking for ideas. Spent the first weekend with mine installing Ubuntu on it and configuring all the function keys. Still haven't enabled onboard LAN...

[Partison]

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Saves ya on tax, too!

If you're not in NJ or CA that is ;-). But even with tax it's still cheaper than best buy....hmmm hard decision.

[DJ Jackalope]

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Newegg has them too, a lot cheaper than best buy.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2f%20Notebooks

Cheers

Saves ya on tax, too!

[Partison]

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Newegg has them too, a lot cheaper than best buy.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2f%20Notebooks

Cheers

[yotta]

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I am SO in on this :) I just got an EeePC 900.

[DJ Jackalope]

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Heyza! Just saying that I'm excited to see what is out there that people have been working on!

[Logik]

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For anyone who's interested, a few of us have started a eeePC Hacking mail list. If you want to join, send a subscribe message to eeehacker [AT] blackthornsystems [DOT] com . It's not overly active, but we've had some good tips get exchanged.

thanks

[theprez98]

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I dropped mine the other day from an "OMG I just killed my laptop height" and the thing could have cared less. That whole let kids play with them thing is true.

Someone said the Best Buy has them now.

Yes, they do.

[DJ Jackalope]

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I dropped mine the other day from an "OMG I just killed my laptop height" and the thing could have cared less. That whole let kids play with them thing is true.

Someone said the Best Buy has them now.

[lil_freak]

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One last note: Universally, women have looked at it and said something like "That is the cutest little thing. It's so tiny!" Those are not the word most guys like to hear from a woman. But in this context I guess it's OK.

Maybe it's because I'm not like other women, but I think the first words to come out of my mouth about the eeePC were: "Sweet, what things can I get away with now?"

For anyone who's interested, a few of us have started a eeePC Hacking mail list. If you want to join, send a subscribe message to eeehacker [AT] blackthornsystems [DOT] com . It's not overly active, but we've had some good tips get exchanged.

When I get home sometime later on today I'll get my subscription message off.

[Thorn]

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Im having the "how much use will I get out of it" debate as well.

I'm finding for "quick network stuff" at clients' places the eeePC 701 is perfect:

• It cold boots almost as quickly as my full size laptop comes out of standby.
• The price is so cheap in comparison to the full size laptop that I'm not too worried about it getting damaged.
• Between Xandros' "Advanced Mode" (a real desktop), and Back|Track 3 on an SDHC card, I've got almost all the software tools I need for working at a client's place.
• It's lighter to haul around and the small size makes it easier to use in confined spaces like server rooms. The light weight is especially nice when you have to stand at a rack, plugged into a patch panel and hold the notebook.

One last note: Universally, women have looked at it and said something like "That is the cutest little thing. It's so tiny!" Those are not the word most guys like to hear from a woman. But in this context I guess it's OK.

For anyone who's interested, a few of us have started a eeePC Hacking mail list. If you want to join, send a subscribe message to eeehacker [AT] blackthornsystems [DOT] com . It's not overly active, but we've had some good tips get exchanged.

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Im having the "how much use will I get out of it" debate as well.