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$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

kipmartin — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:51:28 EDT

some have said "I could get the same capabilities by buying a Widget 2000 for $3000."

hmmm...reminds me of an extremely geekish friend who rebuilds and mods old WWII shortwave transceivers. he and some like-minded friends get these olive drab military boxes maxxed out and talk to each other halfway around the world and they actually spec out better than the newer shortwave systems because they are constrained to newer power restrictions. they are cool looking antiques and they kick ass. a friend said, 'Why do all that? Why don't you guys just call each other on your cell phones?!?!"

know what im saying?

kipmartin

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:39:26 EDT

I'm making yet another hacked 8gb Asus Eee PC for a total cost of $689.99, what do you guys think?

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:01:36 EDT

Our customer Darryl found us via our e-bay posting, and came in to have his Eee PC hacked. So we hacked it for him and installed a bluetooth adaptor, 8gb usb flash drive (combined with the 4gb onboard drive it totals 12gb now in storage capacity) & Windows XP Pro SP3.

David Winter with Eee The E-bay $3200 Eee PC now priced at $2199(White 8gb) and Darryl's Eee PC(Black 701 4gb):

Darryl's Eee PC Opened up:

Darryl's Eee PC Motherboard's under side:

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:07:36 EDT

@Manok: Exactly. But why are they knocking me? they want it. Maybe everyone can help me out with pricing it. Parts cost right around $1200.00 USD Labor time Well over 30 hours. I'm want nothing more for this to take off! help me out guys :) Thank you! - David Winter

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Manok — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:16:46 EDT

why knock the guy? If you don't want it then move on.

Manok

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:04:32 EDT

I made another Eee PC today:

Opened up:
[www.wintercomputersolutions.com]

Under motherboard:
[www.wintercomputersolutions.com]

It sold for $1199.99.

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:57:14 EDT

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: I completely agree, it does make it more expensive, and I did this project just because I can. :)

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:56:15 EDT

@bot: Not to mention the GPS and Wifi N tech.

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:54:54 EDT

@Slash3: Thanks man, I dropped the price so it's more obtainable.

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:53:43 EDT

@strider_mt2k: Also I'm running my data and programs not operating system form the 32gb Patriot XT. The stock 8gb SSD is used for the OS.

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:52:21 EDT

@scrag: I get about 2.5 hours of life off the battery.

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

wintercs — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:21:27 EDT

Well I decided to hook everybody up and I dropped the auction start price to $1499.00 and the buy it now price to $2199.00. I did put a momentous amount of work into it, so happy birthday world!

wintercs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Bokusatsu_Tenshi — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:02:00 EDT

Added tons of functionalities on it killing the one single reason people buy it: cheapness.

But like said... this is one of those "Because we can" cases...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

bot — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:16:36 EDT

Or you could get the Fujitsu LifeBook P1620. It doesn't include all the mods added to the EEE but it has noticable improvements in other areas and is still cheaper and around the same weight (2.2lbs).

8.9" touchscreen, 1.2ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 32GB SSD, A/B/G/Bluetooth wireless. The only things you'd be missing are the webcam, draft-N wireless, and FM transmitter.

Mods are cool and all, but when you put a pricetag on them for labor it's easier to justify a more expensive laptop.

bot

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

electrikecho — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:51:58 EDT

Certainly a mod project someone would want to do himself. Not a mod someone else would be stupid enough to buy. Also, after using an NEC mobilepro for about a year a long time ago, touch screens on a notebook orientation are worse than the EeePC's minuscule touchpad offering.

Nice mod, wouldn't buy at half the price.

electrikecho

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

liveinvt — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:55:51 EDT

@strider_mt2k: True, they probably do not last as long as flash cards.

Kingston's lifetime limited warranty doesn't rule out replacement upon death-by-usage:
[www.kingston.com]

But certainly you'd want to keep a backup.

Regardless, an interesting point that I was not considering. Thanks!

liveinvt

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:21:06 EDT

Sweet mod, but totally not worth it. Why bother when I could get a Thinkpad X300 instead for the same money? Granted, no touch screen, but delivers well in other areas.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Slash3 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:52:16 EDT

Here's a link to the EeePC forum where he posts some other details.
[forum.eeeuser.com]
Amusingly enough, everyone there thinks it's a rather ridiculous asking price as well, including the guy who made it...

Also the 32GB Patriot XT drive isn't an SSD, it's a USB flash drive. Granted, it's quite fast, but there's a distinction there. As others stated, good mods, bad listing.

Slash3

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

strider_mt2k — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:47:15 EDT

@liveinvt: Someone correct me if I'm wrong of course, but to the best of my knowledge the flash memory used on regular flash memory cards has a finite number of read/write cycles that can be burned through fairly quickly when using it for an Operating System.

SSDs utilize a different kind of flash memory and handle the read/write stuff differently to maximize the lifespan of the drive while also increasing that read/write performance to the level of standard hard drives from the much slower standard flash drives.

strider_mt2k

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

liveinvt — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:21:45 EDT

SDHC cards are up to 32gb, so what's the point of this having a sshd?

liveinvt

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Promethean — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:01:55 EDT

@link12245:

The board is upside-down for the purposes of showing the mods. The image is from the bottom of the board, not the top where the keyboard sits.

Promethean

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

znhs — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:00:44 EDT

This is idiotic. Yes, it's cool and incredibly well done, but honestly: this can be done for under $800 and a little soldering skill. You could even buy all the parts and pay someone to solder it together for less than $1000 total...

znhs

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

scrag — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:35:37 EDT

Don't forget the 30 minute battery life running all that other stuff that it wasn't spec'ed with.

scrag

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

sicknick — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:09:49 EDT

All this to still get carpal tunnel when you type too long on the minuscule keyboard AND can't really see much because it is a 7 inch screen.

For 3200 bucks I could get an Ultraportable full laptop and still watch DVD's.

This whole fad got annoying about 6 months ago. Now it's just firmly placed in Stupidland with a direct train ticket to Moronicville.

sicknick

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Isaac — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:44:53 EDT

does gizmodod get paid to post these things? I'm not complaining, but I bet ebayers would be willing to shell out cash for this massive advertising.

Isaac

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Nighthawkz — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:37:55 EDT

@Sleeper_Service: Indeed, the EEE was marketed to be cheap.

Nighthawkz

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

oyumurtaci — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:27:41 EDT

While I admire all the modding madness going on with the Eee, a little soldering goes a long way in shaving off about 1000 dollars off that price tag. And is it just me, or do you need to open the case of the machine each time you want to or need to change the FM transmitter frequency?

oyumurtaci

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Sleeper_Service — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:17:15 EDT

Methinks ye builder hath missed ye pointe.

Sleeper_Service

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

Tsumi91 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:08:30 EDT

I agree

Tsumi91

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

link12245 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:00:33 EDT

why is his VGA and Modem on the wrong sides? Mine is switched to the opposite. Maybe i missed something.

Personally i think this is a little pricey. You could do all this yourself for about $500 including labor hours. But best of luck.

link12245

$3,200 EeePC with 32GB Solid State Drive Now on eBay

mumin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:22:22 EDT

this is one of those "because we can" cases...

mumin