ASUS eeePC torture test

[Beirut]

Cool video of a guy giving the ASUS eeePC laptop a decent beating. Drops it repeatedly, freezes it and puts it on a radiator. Tough little thing.

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance...leur-froi_tech

I'm very seriously thinking of gettin' me one of these. You can get the 700 model pretty cheap, but for $200 more you get the 900 model with a slightly bigger screen, better res and much bigger HD, 12GB instead of 2GB.

Nice toy.

[Beirut]

Fine, my thread is boring. Don't post a response. Treat me like the shmoo that I am.

Anyway, I'm close to ordering one of these things and I have a few LINUX vs. XP questions.

Can a shmoo use LINUX and have all his music and such forth that works on XP work on LINUX?

Will text documents done on LINUX transfer to an XP machine?

Will my external HD, which had all its info loaded with XP, work with LINUX?

They sell the 12GB eeePC 901 with XP Home for the same price as the 20GB eeePC with LINUX. The loss of 8GB is what pays for XP on the machine.

[CrossLOPER]

Shmoo?

[Beirut]

If you can answer my question I'll answer yours.

[Xiahou]

I'd say the answer is a definite "probably".

Really, I don't think there'd be any problem playing your basic mp3s or opening .doc files on the eeePC. There's certainly no reason you can't under Linux.

I really like the eeePC. If I didn't get a company provided laptop, I'd probably have one myself.

[Beirut]

Thanks.

So you think it's better than 50/50 that I can read my external HD as well?

There's a $100 mail-in rebate on the new 900 until the end of the month, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to grab one.

Did you watch the torture test video? I was impressed.