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Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Husher — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:30:11 EST

i love you

Husher

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

rentahero1 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:20:33 EST

Damn, it's like Asus read my mind with that expansion battery. I've got one in my Dell for long flights, but unfortunately this thing is too big to keep out for more than a few hours anyway because of the meals that come at the most inopportune times on flights :P
Thank you, Asus. Now just make it the $199 it was supposed to be, and all will be forgiven.

rentahero1

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Mandatory_Field — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:20:21 EST

@strider_mt2k: For me it's more about the bright colours and shiny icons -- the stuff that least impacts performance. Well ok, and 3d buttons with drop shadows -- a bit more perf impact, but not much.

Mandatory_Field

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

strider_mt2k — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:14:01 EST

@Mandatory_Field: I guess I tend to do that because I'm use to running resource-challenged machines.

Interesting thought though, turning some of that stuff back on.

strider_mt2k

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Mandatory_Field — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:58:54 EST

@strider_mt2k: I think I _like_ the cartoony look of most modern OSes. I mean, I really find animations and transitions to be annoying, and turn them off as much as possible (and consequently gain some performance back); but I like the bright shiny _welcoming_ look that most have nowadays. Huge improvement over the green/amber monochrome 80*25, n'est pas?

Mandatory_Field

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

strider_mt2k — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:43:53 EST

@Mandatory_Field: Well since you mention it I have to agree.
I have XP tweaked with a lot of stuff shut off too.

Someone mentioned in another thread that I could be running Win98 for the basic stuff I do, but if you look at how I run my machines you might think I AM running it. (Or Win2K, with which I'm not really familiar, but also lacks that "cartoony" feel.

strider_mt2k

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Mandatory_Field — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:34:54 EST

@strider_mt2k: "which as wimpy as it is still outspecs it".

It's surprisingly snappy, given the low specs.

Mandatory_Field

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

darex — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:33:48 EST

The battery, as photographed is upside-down.

The "bottom" lump is integrated into the hinge, the "front" lump is part of the rear footpad, and the third, "rear" lump is new, and points backwards (away from the user). It's actually amazingly well-planned/designed, and only adds about 10mm extra length (and obviously some additional weight).

It's not an extender -- it's a replacement to the 4-cell that comes with the Eee. Of course, you can always carry the 4-cell as a spare (except not on airplanes anymore, apparently).

It's a no-brainer item to add to your Eee.

darex

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

discounteggroll — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:49:49 EST

aww EEEK OUT!

discounteggroll

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

strider_mt2k — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:47:02 EST

Grinding lumps aside, I would really like an excuse to get one of these, but that excuse would probably mean the death of my trusty dusty Inspiron B130, which as wimpy as it is still outspecs it.

It does make me wish I could afford a small SSD to put in my B130 though, just to get some experience with 'em.

strider_mt2k

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

nutbastard — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:23:39 EST

let's get eeetarded in here...

nutbastard

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Mandatory_Field — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:33:05 EST

@Pope John Peeps II: Mmmmmm, grinding lump....

Mandatory_Field

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

gadgetfanatic — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:56:54 EST

I'm not sure I want to buy one of these.

gadgetfanatic

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

jspec1594 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:14:55 EST

i think i will get an eee pc soon!

jspec1594

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Pope John Peeps II — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:58:22 EST

@Reilaos, Original Asus Fanboy: That sentence told me so much about your life that I didn't need to know.

eww.

Pope John Peeps II

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Reilaos~ — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:55:12 EST

Also: Where does the bulge of the battery go? Does it become a lump grinding into your thigh/desk or something?

Reilaos~

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Reilaos~ — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:54:23 EST

@djdare: And what's bad about that?!

I hope that the headphones are better than Apple ones. They look suspiciously similar...

Reilaos~

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Mandatory_Field — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:54:38 EST

@EQC: "on another note...with the Apple connection made above...anybody else find the eee's white earbuds a bit ironic too?"

Actually, I think they're mostly plastic. Badum-Ching!

Mandatory_Field

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Zadillo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:53:22 EST

@dancinbojangles:

Asus manufactures the MacBook (although not the MacBook Pro). It's not that unusual, Asus manufactures machines for a number of companies.

Zadillo

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

EQC — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:31:46 EST

Once these babies drop in price (like the iPhone did, I hope), I'd love to get one.

I especially like those battery extender packs.

The regular EEE comes with a 4400 mAh battery pack that lasts 2.8 hours. That means that (provided the same voltage is involved) the 7800 mAh extender should last nearly 5 hours on its own.

Provided the "extender" is truly an extender and doesn't require removing the original battery, you could get almost 8 hours of usage out of the eee with one of those installed.

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on another note...with the Apple connection made above...anybody else find the eee's white earbuds a bit ironic too?

EQC

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

scrag — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:26:02 EST

I'm holding out for 16G.

scrag

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

bobide — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:24:01 EST

I am so buying a Eee once they come out with the new chipset.

bobide

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

daftrok — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:11:26 EST

Loving that 6 cell battery hopefully it will be around 1-40 bucks.

daftrok

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

dancinbojangles — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:07:39 EST

Lol, eeeboy. Nothing wrong with that if you ask me, seeing as the eee kicks ass. Wait a second, doesn't Asus make Apple's laptops, though? My God, Giz manages to fanboy over apple without even saying their name! (Not that there's anything wrong with that, either)

dancinbojangles

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

Abnormal — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:50:30 EST

Hey give em a break at least its not made by Apple

Abnormal

Asus Eee Gets Even Cuter With Range of Official Accessories

djdare — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:39:46 EST

wow you guys are Asus fanboys, or eeeboys? i dunno i give up

djdare