On Thursday 28 August 2008, Matthias Johnson wrote: > I have finally saved up enough cash to buy one of these and was hoping for > a little direction. There are several flavors of them and I was likely > going to purchase it from Newegg (unless someone knows of a better deal...) > Here are the options I see: > > ASUS Eee PC 1000 Linux based Intel Atom 10.0" Wide SVGA 1GB Memory 40GB SSD > Integrated Graphics Retail $669 free ship > > ASUS Eee PC 1000H XP based Intel Atom 10.0" Wide SVGA 1GB Memory 80GB HDD > Integrated Graphics Eee PC - Retail $549 > > OK so this is were I am debating. I understand the SSD should be faster > and the life expectancy of the drive may be better. Also by getting the > Xandros I would be contributing to a demand for Linux based machine rather > than XP. But the catch is I would probably wipe Xandros anyway and put a > different distro on it. Also I am confused with SSD and the regular drive. > They both specify that the battery life is the same and that doesn't seem > correct to me. Tom's Hardware seems to indicate that you lose more power > with a SSD. Also the SSD appears to be a faster 8 GB SSD and a slower 32 GB > SSD.
Wikipedia seems to indicate that the Eee PC 1000 Linux model comes with an
8 GB SSD and a 32 GB SDHC card, i.e. a Secure Digital card, which I assume
would take up the SD slot. :-/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC#Eee_1000_Series
> I am guessing it it a RAID 0 or maybe two seperate partitions.
If it's a 32 GB removable SD card, I'm guessing that it's two separate
partitions.
-- Chris
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