Is the 8 gig version available from you yet?

          **** No, the one I have is the Eee PC 4G, Pearl White, Linux,
   4G SSD, 512MB DDR2 Intel Mobile CPU &
           Chipset, WIFi 802.11b/g 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, 0.3 M Camera,
   sleeve
           This is from the box label.  BTW, sleeve is a little cover
   sort of like a woman's hand purse
            with the fold over flap.

          Try logging on my web site http://www.rotaryeng.net
          and Scroll down to the videos.
          See which ones work as there is a variety of video formats on
   there.

          ****I logged on to the site and all of the formats worked,
   .mpg, wvm, and .avi


          I notice it has a VGA connector on the back so try it with a
   larger
          monitor. I need that feature when I give forums at air shows as I
          connect it to a projector.

           ****I connected it to a full size monitor and it worked
   fine.  I also hooked up a USB
           keyboard and that worked well also.  You should be able to
   hook up any USB device
           including a USB hub.  USB flash/thumb drives work fine.
           You should have no problem with a projector.  I would take along
           a set of head phones (with a mic)  to listen to music and to
   make Skype phone calls.  It uses
           OpenOffice suite for wordprocessing, spreadsheet,
   presentations, etc (MS compatible)


         Does Asus have a larger note book with Linux
         pre installed?

         ****Not that I am aware---but there is a site
    (http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/asus.html)
         that addresses that question.

         The last "notebook" that had this cool factor .......way back
   when.....was the old Radio Shack
        one
         that had about a four line screen and used off the shelf
   batteries and a floppy disk.
         http://www.computercloset.org/TRS80Model100.htm    Yeah, we've
   come a long way and someday
         one of the computer companies is going to do a laptop RIGHT.;-)

         Hope this helps.

         Jim Brewer
         Albemarle, NC

   I did a little looking around today and I found a PC Club store in
   Thousand
   Oaks Calif. that had an EEE PC hooked up to the Internet. It played
   all my videos
   on the web site fine with an installed Mplayer plug in on Firefox.
   The keyboard
   is not all that bad if you hunt and peck type like I do. It has a VGA
   connector so the screen size is not a drawback when you are home.

   What they also had was a desktop computer running pre installed G-OS
   which is
   a GUI running on top of Linux. The whole works was less than
   $200.... less screen
   and keyboard. No DVD burner however. Just a DVD/CD reader. A real
   bargain.

   They also tell me Walmart sells the same thing for about the same
   price. This
   makes Walmart the largest distributor of Linux in the world.
   It is equipped with Open Office, ThunderBird and Firefox among many
   other applications. This covers about 90% of what people do with PC's.

   The G-OS GUI appears to be a joint project with Google.
   --
   Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.


I'm sure you all know this..  Video quality isn't just screen size.  The
EEE has a fairly low res screen (800x480) as well as being small.  I'd
be interested in what resolution the VGA out can drive (depends on the
video hardware speed and memory)..


Matt-

Surprisingly the video circuit in the EEE PC goes up to 1024 x 768

From the FAQ on:
http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=Eee%20PC%204G(701)

"What is the highest resolution when you connecting an external projector to Eee PC 4G?"
Answer: "1024X768"

You can usually change the rez in Linux on the fly.