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Sacrificing my EEEPC for a Garmin – EEEPC for sale

philroche — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:33:05 +0000

I've come to the crazy decision that I need to sacrifice my EEPC in favour of a Garmin Forerunner 405. Why?

I've got an awesome Vaio that I find myself using more and more at home
I'm doing the Dublin marathon this year and I'd like the Garmin to aid in my training

What I found great about the EEPC -

It's very light
It plays all media types - great for travelling
It's got Wifi
It's battery life is great considering it's size
It works great as a digital radio hooked up to a hifi

I'm looking for £190 ono excluding delivery (perfect condition with original box and all manuals/cds). That includes a 2GB SD card. I'm putting it on my blog first before ebaying it. I've also got an unused Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition for sale (£110 ono excl delivery).

Anybody interested?

EEEPC – overall thoughts

philroche — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:29:04 +0000

Overall - I'm really impressed.

Pros

It's tiny - meaning very portable
It's light - under one kilo
It's fast - Celeron 900MHz with 512MB Ram
It runs Linux - Xandros with a very fast window manager by default
Battery life is good considering the size (3-4 hours)
It's cheap as hell - I paid about 300Euro
It's got Wifi and webcam - Skype Video on the go
Hibernate works brilliantly with very fast boot times too

Cons

Keyboard is a little small
It's doesn't reconnect to wifi when it comes out of hibernate
The WEP WPA software has bugs - you can't connect to a network with a key that has numbers or spaces in it
The screen is a little too small for constant use - I reckon the planned 10" models will be alot better

Overall I love and I wouln't hesitate to recommend it considering the price.