Upgrading an EeePC

[Yankee]

Hi,

In the process of moving from an EeePC 900mhz to an
EeePC Atom 1.6ghz.   So far some test results.


Hard drive:

EeePC 900 w/SSD = 28.9 MB/s
EeePC Atom w/160GB HD = 64 MB/s


Processor:

EeePC 900mhz = 700 MIPS
EeePC Atom 1.6 ghz = 1300 MIPS

So the EeePC w/Atom is roughly twice as fast, but,
it double-threads so I have to add two MIPS figures
together to get the total MIPS figure.   Don't know if
I like that, might work better single-threading for
burning CD's.   It even shows up as a dual-dore on some
diagnostics when it isn't because of the multi-threading
it does.

SMART hard drive info on the EeePC Atom shows 5088 hrs.
used with an overall good (pass) rating of 58 %.   It passes or fails
at a 58 % rating ?   Don't fully understand that figure.

And the battery is quite dead.    Have to do for now.    LXDE and
WindowsXP are much more responsive.


regards,

FF

[menotu]

Don't know if this of any use re S.M.A.R.T. monitoring/tests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

[Yankee]

Don't know if this of any use re S.M.A.R.T. monitoring/tests

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

Hi,

Yes, I read that.   All 3 of my SMART drives are Seagate's and they want
their drives tested with SeaTools.    They have some SMART output that is different
than other drives.      One of mine flunked one test once because the drive was too
cold, according to it's  SMART history.    Actually, that figure is inverse, so it did flunk,
but the highest temp reached was the highest operating temp allowed, so OK by that.
BTW, GSmart in Synaptic looks like a great SMART tool.

thanks for the response,

FF

[Yankee]

Well, have got the EeePC Atom working 100 % it seems.

Odd, it uses wlan1 and eth1 instead of wlan0 and eth0, minor
adjustment.   Wish it was single core single thread, rather than
single core double thread.   Probably appreciate single thread
full speed someday, and the double thread confuses some
graphs, etc..   Overall speed boost is nice, tho.    Need to
hook up the TV and try a Hulu or Crackle movie someday.
USB's work perfectly, it's going to take a few more years
to wear this one out.

Nice model netbook as was the previous EeePC.
LXDE 2011 away !


FF

[BobK54]

Interesting, still using my eeepc900 as my coffee-table buddy for those times when commercials are on TV.  It's a woot.com purchase from 3+ years ago.  Full-up PCLinuxOS KDE 2012, 2G ram (upgraded from 1G), 16G SSD (replacement for the 4G that came with it).  No kwin due to the graphics capabilities of the 900 but everything else works fine.  BUT I'm not doing any cpu critical missions on it anytime soon!    Great for surfing and SHORT emails (fingers too fat to touch type on that thing...).  And now that my company has locked down my work laptop so I can't even boot PCLOS off a stick, I'm carrying that 900 with me more and more when I travel.  Hehe, it still blows people away when I connect that little eeepc900 to my 52" TV and use it as an external monitor!!!      My wife has the eeepc1000 with XP, hate it.  Except for the larger screen and touch-typeable keypad!

[Yankee]

Interesting, still using my eeepc900 as my coffee-table buddy for those times when commercials are on TV.  It's a woot.com purchase from 3+ years ago. 

Hi,

I wish they still made them, the exact same thing, EeePC900 16SSD, say for
less than $200, for Linux and Android.     Those cheapo netbooks for Android
are a little hard to put Linux on hardware-wise I've heard.

regards,

FF

[duder]

I just finished installing kde minime 2013-2 on my eee 900ha in triple boot with win 8 and XP.   This  little 9" pc looks like a toy laptop but it performs really well with the atom cpu and gma950 graphics.

Minime installed w/o a hitch. All hardware detected including the wl and wired nics and sound.

Gotta love this distro. 

[Yankee]

I just finished installing kde minime 2013-2 on my eee 900ha in triple boot with win 8 and XP.   This  little 9" pc looks like a toy laptop but it performs really well with the atom cpu and gma950 graphics.

Minime installed w/o a hitch. All hardware detected including the wl and wired nics and sound.

Gotta love this distro. 

I still like netbooks better than push the screen mini-computers and eReaders.

[kjpetrie]

You can usually disable hyperthreading in the BIOS.

That's what I've done with my Atom.

[Yankee]

You can usually disable hyperthreading in the BIOS.

That's what I've done with my Atom.

This BIOS has a setting to enable or disable CPUID value limit,
but it only works on mobo's that don't support hyperthreading.

Enabling it leaves the value low, but the machine still hyperthreads.
Disabling it lets that value go high and it also hyperthreads normally.
Can't see any other setting related to hyperthreading. 

thanks for the response.

Y