Comments on: The Asus Eee: A Wargamer’s Laptop

By: Ashton Sanders

Ashton Sanders — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:18:08 +0000

Yea… I don’t think there’s really anything you can do about it… It’s just the screw holding the black “border” on the bottom left of your screen (near the locking mechanism) broke through the plastic…

Didn’t do any damage to the actual computer.. just that front casing…

(Boy, that is hard to explain…)

By: josh m

josh m — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:15:20 +0000

Not sure. I often use mine sitting on the couch, so I assume this could be a problem.. constant moving around that causes the weight of the screen to shift back and forth.
HP fixed it for free and said they could replicate the problem, so… Hopefully they reinforced it or something. I’ve yet to have any problems with it.

By: Dustan

Dustan — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:48:46 +0000

Those are dark predictions, Mine is a HP Comaq nx9420 (intel inside). Any tips to avoid it?

By: Ashton Sanders

Ashton Sanders — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:57:40 +0000

Hahahah! Josh,

I just started having the EXACT same problem you are having. The front pannel broke, so the hinge is acting weird. I tried ordering the part, but they are out of stock….

lol

By: josh m

josh m — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:01:11 +0000

my new laptop is hp AMD 17″ widescreen, full keyboard. It’s ok. I’ve had to send it back in to fix the casing for the LCD as it started splitting at one of the hinges.
The weight of the screen eventually causes this problem.

Hah, I bike for work and to get around, in Portland, Oregon you don’t really need a car, so.. it’s 10-20 minutes to pretty much anywhere by bike.

Anyway, I may look into one of these new ones. I need something small to take with me on road trips.

By: Ashton Sanders

Ashton Sanders — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:34:57 +0000

Actually, I got a 60GB, 17″ widescreen laptop with a full keyboard 8 months ago for $800. It was a HP recertified, but it’s been great for me.

By: Dustan

Dustan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:16:00 +0000

$2500 will get you a 17″wide screen laptop why bike for your exercise when you can lift weights… its much easier to ballance on your knees due to the weight at full sized keyboard width

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:19:31 +0000

Ouch! That sounds painful…I’d love to ride a bike to/from work but haven’t worked up the courage…

Yes, the Sony Vaio range of tiny little laptops is lovely, but frightening expensive. Around $2,500nzd locally. For that price I could buy four of these tiny little laptops!

They’re not as powerful as the Vaios of course…but they surf the web and email just fine. Plus I can happily do development work on them too (since that usually just requires a half decent text editor like Geany) at at roughly the weight of a thick paperback book they’re completely portable.

By: josh m

josh m — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:57:10 +0000

That’s crazy.
I used to carry my macbook around with me. It wasn’t too bad, I’d have it in my bag while working(i do bicycle messenger work).
Well, it was fine until I got hit by a car and it managed to break my lcd screen and cd rom.
hah.
My freind travels a lot so he bought a small pc like that… but his was like $1500 and is like a normal new pc, just tiny.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:49:42 +0000

Gerrie, the screen is 7″ at 800 x 400. It’s quite small I’ll grant you, but being an LCD is very crisp and clear.

Possibly the example document in my photo was a poor choice – because it’s a low res scan of a photocopied set of Linka building instructions!

By: Gerrie

Gerrie — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:09:22 +0000

Apart from the screen which really looks tiny and low-res, I think you made a fine purchase here. It’s also the perfect size as a companion on the painting desk :)

By: Ashton Sanders

Ashton Sanders — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:40:14 +0000

Wow! I didn’t realize they still sold 4GB PC’s. That looks amazingly compact.