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polaris:
couple of questions

how is surfing the web on it, comfortable enough?

is it the solid state hard drive that makes this so fast to boot an windows run so fast? ive seen something similar but it has a regular hard drive.

NiN^_^NiN:

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--- Quote from: NiN^_^NiN on January 23, 2008, 10:51:51 am ---And no the magnet is used to turn a reed switch off so the pc can't be turned on while the pc is closed its just using the magnetism so you would need to somehow block that and i have no idea how to do that one really

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Wouldn't it be easier to change the power options to allow it to run while closed?

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It's a hardware feature not a software feature ;)

It can run closed mine runs closed all the time but the reed switch actually disables the power switch when the lid is closed its a hardware measure to make sure it wont turn on with the lid closed its not a software problem the pc can be on but i can't shut it down even tho i can push the power button while the lid is closed the power switch isn't connected when the magnet is in range. The only way is to take the magnet out or counteract the magnetism with a piece of material but i don't know how to stop magnetism

As for the sufring its great the screen size isnt a problem at all and the screen size is 800 x 480 altho u can make it bigger i leave it at this size it works on all the websites i got to and yahoo and any other flash video site works to and fits in the firefox window if its set to fullscreen :)

I've been using it for surfing around the net and downloading podcasts etc. the great thing is that i have a G wireless router and the eee pc supports G so i can stream movies games and even mame over the wifi without any problems what so ever and without being limited to the 4 gig space of the HDD

The hdd is quite fast and the pc is quite fast in xp or any os it even runs vista pretty well aswell if u ever wanted to run that os.

As for the upgrades yeah there have been quite a few cool ones a guy has stuck 2 16gb flash drives inside the unit to give him more space aswell quite cool but that one is the most involved so far :)

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: polaris on January 23, 2008, 07:07:06 pm ---is it the solid state hard drive that makes this so fast to boot an windows run so fast? ive seen something similar but it has a regular hard drive.

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Yes, that's the reason.  Solid state hd's are superior to regular hds in every way.  The only reason we don't have them in our pcs now is the high cost.  I think the largest you can get atm is around 16 gigs and you'll pay a fortune for that. 

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