Comments on: Asus Working on an All-in-one Eee PC? http://cybernetnews.com/asus-working-on-an-all-in-one-eee-pc/ Technology News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:18:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/asus-working-on-an-all-in-one-eee-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-140204 Ryan Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:21:07 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13496#comment-140204 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140162" rel="nofollow">Mohan wrote:</a><blockquote>Looks like Asus read my mind, will be getting one of these for my parents and hooking it up with Ubuntu 8.10. :D</blockquote></div> This would definitely make for a great gift for parents. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-140195" rel="nofollow">Inferno_str1ke wrote:</a><blockquote>Its a clever idea, especially as you can bet the hardware will be fairly standardised, meaning all-in-one drivers, updates etc. As long as Asus don’t follow the trend of laptops and bundle them with tons of installed crap we could have a decent competitor to the desktop Mac in the simplicity factor - one of these babies with Vista installed would be a tempting offer besides the reduced compatibility and increased price of an iMac.</blockquote></div> I think the Eee PC's will always be running low-end hardware, which means Vista probably wouldn't be the smoothest on the machine. They might even be shipping it with XP if it's one of the ultra low cost PC's that Microsoft allows. Mohan wrote:
Looks like Asus read my mind, will be getting one of these for my parents and hooking it up with Ubuntu 8.10. :D

This would definitely make for a great gift for parents.

Inferno_str1ke wrote:
Its a clever idea, especially as you can bet the hardware will be fairly standardised, meaning all-in-one drivers, updates etc. As long as Asus don’t follow the trend of laptops and bundle them with tons of installed crap we could have a decent competitor to the desktop Mac in the simplicity factor – one of these babies with Vista installed would be a tempting offer besides the reduced compatibility and increased price of an iMac.

I think the Eee PC’s will always be running low-end hardware, which means Vista probably wouldn’t be the smoothest on the machine. They might even be shipping it with XP if it’s one of the ultra low cost PC’s that Microsoft allows.

]]> By: Inferno_str1ke http://cybernetnews.com/asus-working-on-an-all-in-one-eee-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-140195 Inferno_str1ke Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:38:34 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13496#comment-140195 Its a clever idea, especially as you can bet the hardware will be fairly standardised, meaning all-in-one drivers, updates etc. As long as Asus don't follow the trend of laptops and bundle them with tons of installed crap we could have a decent competitor to the desktop Mac in the simplicity factor - one of these babies with Vista installed would be a tempting offer besides the reduced compatibility and increased price of an iMac. Its a clever idea, especially as you can bet the hardware will be fairly standardised, meaning all-in-one drivers, updates etc. As long as Asus don’t follow the trend of laptops and bundle them with tons of installed crap we could have a decent competitor to the desktop Mac in the simplicity factor – one of these babies with Vista installed would be a tempting offer besides the reduced compatibility and increased price of an iMac.

]]> By: Mohan http://cybernetnews.com/asus-working-on-an-all-in-one-eee-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-140162 Mohan Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:08:16 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=13496#comment-140162 Looks like Asus read my mind, will be getting one of these for my parents and hooking it up with Ubuntu 8.10. :D Looks like Asus read my mind, will be getting one of these for my parents and hooking it up with Ubuntu 8.10. :D

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