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Really nice. Specially the price.... :o

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But can one install Ubuntu on it?

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It looks great, but I don't think it will fit in my pocket or fit my pocketbook.

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im pretty sure you can install linux. drivers might be a different story.

Yeah, size wise i dont think you can fit it in your shirt pocket or pants but i dont put mine in either places. i mostly put mine in my backpack. i havent seen it personaly but im curious to see what it looks like in my hand. from the gallery, i like the way the screen folds over, it just looks smaller that way

price, yeah a little over twice the price fo the new 810. i have a n770 and if i were to upgrade, i think my choice will be either the 810 or the fujitsu. my main use is mainly browsing while im in bed and so far the n770 has full filled my needs.

just seeing what people thoughts are on this.

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I looked at this a while back to put linux on it.

What I found when I searched didn't look promising: Linux installs, but you have no touch screen drivers, ditto for the finger scanner and camera, which makes it a bit useless. I have read somewhere recently though, that there are now touch screen drivers from Xorg.

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Too bad it runs linux. And uses a CF card slot instead of an PC-Card or Express Card slot.

And, someone up there said they like the price. I don't. Too expensive.

Otherwise, nice. That's the kind of "twist screen" for tablet vs notebook I had been talking about. At 6", it might be slightly too wide for thumb typing though. That'd be unfortunate.

So, maybe slightly smaller, PC card or express card, native linux install with full driver support, and maybe closer to $600. Then I'd be interested.

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It runs windows, and I belive the 'nice price' was sarcasm.

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heh. Brain fart. I meant "too bad it runs windows" and/or "too bad it doesn't run linux". Thinking faster than I was typing.

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CF card support is a good call IMHO - CF cards are dirt cheap and available in up to 16GB capacities with 32GB capacities promised for 2008.

This is quite a nice device - I like the screen res! - but my god is it ugly, that hump to the left of the hinge (is it the battery?) makes the camera hump on the N800 almost look sexy! ;) I suppose the hump may be useful as something to grasp when in tablet mode... also 1.5lbs is a bit on the hefty side for a tablet (that's 3 times the weight of the N800).

I found a video of the U810 on youtube here - it seems pretty nippy but mute the sound to avoid hearing the *REALLY* cheesy music (there's no commentary)! :)

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A PC-Card slot can do everything a CF card slot can do (since you can put CF cards into them, with a very simple caddy). A PC-Card slot can do everything an Express Card slot can do (again, just need a caddy). But specialized CF card devices aren't anywhere near as common as PC-Card devices. Just go look at the cell carriers, and show me how many supported CF card mobile modems they have. Now go do the same for PC-Card and Express Card devices.

That's why it shouldn't have a CF card slot. It should have a PC-Card slot.

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Perhaps the lack of PC/Express Card support is due to a lack of Linux driver support in general for such cards as the chipset seems capable of supporting Express cards. Or maybe Asus shied away from building an Express card "expandable" device due to the support issues this may create (but then, it has USB ports which fall under the same "expandable" category although USB devices probably enjoy wider support in Linux and are less of a headache...)

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But there is an empty mini-PCI/express slot inside the Eee...

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It looks like a great start, but wasn't this supposed to be the $200 computer?

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In that case, ignore me :)

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Someone at work bought an Asus R2Hv:
http://ca.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=...63&modelmenu=2

It was about $1000 a year ago, so similar price to the Fujitsu you mentioned. The spec page says that the R2Hv has a 7" screen, so bigger than the Fujitsu. Anyway, this was about a year ago, but the computer was s-l-o-w. Way slower than even the NIT 770. Vista ran like a dog on it, and the interface was just horrible. Even the EeePC is much faster and more usable than the Asus was. Vista is meant to run on a high-resolution display, end of story. Maybe Fujitsu did a better job, I see that the resolution is higher. All the same, I can't imagine that it would be very readable with a 5" screen.

The Fujitsu mentioned here is also three times heaver than the N800. Given the size and weight, I don't imagine that it would be very pocketable. Interesting device, though.

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Hm. That wasn't listed on the tech specs when I looked at them, on their web page.

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a) put in the hardware, and the software will eventually follow

b) there are some of those card makers that provide indirect or unofficial linux support (I don't remember which model, but one of the mobile modem makers had a "click here for using this with linux" link on the manufacturers web page for that card).

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Look here
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or here

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Hmm. Portable, handheld device, with a hard drive inside...

I will admit I've dropped my N800 once or twice with no ill effect. Can you imagine dropping that fujitsu? That thing needs an SSD.

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I meant the fujitsu. And I meant an Express Card slot (narrow/updated version of a PCMCIA/PC-Card slot), not a PCI/e slot.

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Read the subthread. Both Milhouse -- who I replied to -- and myself were clearly referring to the Eee.

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Err... no.

I started out saying, in reply to the general thread, "too bad it ... uses a CF slot instead of an PC-Card .."

to which milhouse said "CF card support is a good call IMHO"

to which I pointed out why a PC-Card is superior to a CF card.

then milhouse speculated about drivers, and so on. But the CF card vs PC-Card/Express-Card sub-thread definitely revolved around the fujitsu.

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I replied to this: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...4&postcount=13

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Right, which was a follow up to my comment about why PC-Cards are better than CF cards.

Yes, he mentioned asus in there, but discussion, in general, was still about the fujitsu device. (does the Asus Eee PC even have a CF slot on it? (haven't looked, but I don't recall it being mentioned in any of the review sites); if not, it would seem to imply a confusion of references on milhouse's part)

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How ambiguous can a sentence like: "But there is an empty mini-PCI/express slot inside the Eee..." be?

Is there a Fujitsu Eee I haven't heard about? If there is, Asus certainly wouldn't like it.

And to answer your question: The Eee only has one SD(HC) slot on the outside. Then again, that infamous mini PCI/e slot on the inside might accomodate a CF-adapter; Asus claims to be readying all sorts of expansion modules for that slot -- without specifying even one, of course.

The point I (as were others) was trying to make, is that the Eee is surprisingly expandable for such a compact and seemingly proprietary machine: 3 USB ports, the SD(HC) slot, the internal PCI/e socket (there are in fact 2 of them, one being occupied by the Wifi card), even the RAM can be expanded with bog-standard DDR chips. It's such a nice machine, that I'm almost (but not really) regretting having won my Pepper Pad 3.

But, like I said: not really, I got my Pad for an unbelievable price (probably due to the constant rumours of Pepper being in deep troubles). So low, in fact, that an Eee for my niece for Xmas (Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking with it :rolleyes:) might not totally be in the realm of fantasy. You gotta love that worthless US dollar...

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I must admit I forgot which device I was talking about when I replied to your post. Maybe it was too early in the morning but I completely missed your reference to EEE when I had in fact been referring to the Fujitsu when discussing CF/Express card support - when I replied to you I was under the mistaken impression that I'd been discussing the EEE, and replied too quickly without putting my brain in gear! :)

Sorry for the confusion that has now ensued! :)

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Correct - I can't cope with all these different devices!

I was referring only to the Fujitsu when discussing CF/Express card, and posted a confusing reply to Karel when he pointed out the inclusion of an Express card slot in the Eee.

Sorry chaps! :)