If you want a super-light laptop, you have to pay for it, and you have to use Windows. Thats been the (frustrating) conventional wisdom—at least until late last year, when the Taiwanese company Asus rolled out the Eee PC (pronounced as though it were a single long e), a two-pound, seven-inch laptop starting at a mere $300. The tradeoff: It comes with just two to eight gigabytes of flash memory instead of a conventional, larger hard drive, and a simplified Linux operating system that essentially is usable only for e-mail, Web browsing and typing.
The Asus EeePC is the most easily modded notebook available. I have transformed my 4GB Eeepc to a 68GB beast with 48GB of it removable. I added a Touch Screen and jumped the memory from 512MB to 2GB. Overclocked it from the stock 630MHZ to run from a range of 360MHZ to 990MHZ. Some people have reached over 1,180MHZ. I have boosted the resolution from 800 x 480 to 1024 x 600. All from the help of the 27,000 members at EeeUser.com. One of our members in Canada has $2,200 in their EeePC. Another in SanDiego sold his last week for $1,500. It had added storage, GPS, Touch Screen, FM transmitter, and a lot more. Not bad for a $399 computer. I have never had so much fun with a notebook as I have with my EeePC, In fact it has been so much fun that I'm going to sell my 68GB EeePC so I can start modding my new 20GB EeePC Model 900 and do it all over again, but with the knowledge I have gained from the last 9 months I have a whole new plan. I look forward to your next article about modding the EeePC. JDtucson http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh101/JDtucson/P5050059.jpg
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