Using the Asus eeePC 900 with PCLinuxOS 2010

[hugtheslug]

Rubbish !! K3b works fine, I've used it myself on an old USB external DVD writer.
Don't always believe all the minimum requirement stuff, I've consistently used less than the min on a lot of systems over the years with no trouble.
Just make sure to use the left hand USB port and keep the mains plugged in, as I've found the other ports don't seem to give enough power.

The five times better performance is only an estimate by the way, if you check out the eeeuser forum you would get more accurate figures http://forum.eeeuser.com/

I've also read on the eeeuser forums that the 900mhz celeron has as good performance as the 1.6 atom because it's not actually a very powerful processor, but of course it makes up for this with far better battery times.

Cheers

Hugh

[Ferdes Fides]

Rubbish !! K3b works fine, I've used it myself on an old USB external DVD writer.

The new ones all want 1.5 ghz, but those failed attempts were in XP.  I'll
have to try one on LINUX someday.


patrick013

[nindnarne]

Sorry for not spotting this one before.

How Kmix handles audio is one of my main grips with pclos (other distros haven't got this weirdness).

I have a 901 myself, and in kde my speakers were muted too. I got even more puzzled when I plugged in external speakers via audio out and I had audio again........

Once you enable the internal speakers in kmix and if you plug in external speakers pclos for some strange reason does not disable the internal speakers automatically (which is the norm). This problem persists in other DE too. Quite annoying when for example putting on a headset for a skype call.......

[Ferdes Fides]

I have a 901 myself, and in kde my speakers were muted too. I got even more puzzled when I plugged in external speakers via audio out and I had audio again........

I heard that.   KDE is very low volume.  Xfce is pretty full volume as well as WindowsXP. 
Amorok has a good equalizer tho in KDE and I put the db's up a notch or two then and the
low or muted volume reappears.


thanks for the response,

patrick013

[mmmmna]

I didn't realize that the 900 was a 900 MHz chip... is it a Celeron? My 900A has the Atom n270, an impressive little processor, IMO.

SSD's can be found which have been rated for their read/write speeds. I upgraded my EeePC 900A (the Best Buy custom version from 2009) from the stock 4gig, to a 32 gig.

I did not purchase the SSD which had the highest speeds, the one I got was rated only about 2x as fast as the original SSD.

I selected my SSD according to capacity first, price second, speed third. I purchased from a company that designed a range of SSDs to fit my EeePC 900A (the 900A uses a weird form factor along with an uncommon data interface).

Still happy with my selection. I got mine from Active Media Products, my exact part number has been discontinued because a slightly faster version took its place for about $20 more (over time, that price should have dropped. but that's a different story).

One observation I'd put out there is that there will still be pauses between drive accesses, to let the CPU make decisions, to write comfiguration files and logs, as well as other hardware slow-downs. That said, on the new drive, I was able to boot a full install of Bodacious Bacon (lol! "Bodacious Bacon" refers to k another distro) (NOT a version optimized for netbooks) in about 35 seconds. My cellphone needs way over twice that time!!

My point here is that the fastest possible device might not be the only option to offer improvements; I got more capacity and faster speed for a low price - that combination was hard to beat at that time.

ymmv

[mikkl]

Sounds like a tempting upgrade.  Too bad the right button on the touchpad has broken, making me hesitant to invest any additional funds in my 900.

mikkl

[Ferdes Fides]

I didn't realize that the 900 was a 900 MHz chip... is it a Celeron? My 900A has the Atom n270, an impressive little processor, IMO.

Mine's a Celeron 900mhz, and the new ones are Atom 1.66's with 160gb hd's.  They never should have
made these with less than 16gb SSD's IMHO.   I put LXDE on a 16gb flash drive, no speed problems
whatsoever.   Says 10mb read speed and 5mb write speed.

The Dynex 5 button wired mouse I added, only one mouse better than this one I spotted after
I bought this great Dynex.   A welcome addition.