ePC to take to Europe. This is the
2nd
gen EeePC. I love this thing. No hard disk. 40 giga bytes!!! Count em 40
giga
bytes!!!! of solid state storage memory. One gig of user RAM. You can
throw this
thing across the room and it will still work. Shock proof. Three pounds.
Ten
inches by seven inches by one inch thick. Six! count em! six hours of
battery
life. No hard disk ... no hard disk motor to suck down the juice. Linux
with two
dozen programs for free. Thunderbird, Firefox and Open Office to name just
a few
pre installed programs. There are hundreds of other Linux programs on the
web
that can be downloaded and installed with just a few mouse clicks in
seconds.
I had this thing up and running my email in just a few minutes. It was the
easiest computer I ever connected to an email provider. No viruses. I have
been
using Linux for ten years and I never had a virus.
Three USB ports. A video connector for a large monitor. Built in camera.
SD card
slot. Ethernet connector. Wireless. Blue tooth. Mic and earphone
connectors.
Not cheap. I paid about $800 with CA tax from a local computer store.
You can get it cheaper on the web.
Boots up quick and shuts down quick. Asus has an excellent rep in the
computer biz.
This is perfect for use in a light airplane at altitude as hard disk fail
at
high altitudes. You can also get USB data acquisition systems for
monitoring
engine parameters.
I love it.
Paul Lamar
Paul,
Are you running Rhino on it, is the graphics card up to the task?
George( down under)
Rhino runs only on windows. Maybe the Mac.
I keep an old windows XP computer around to run Rhino.
Paul Lamar
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