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kornalius
11-06-2007, 07:01 PM
<a href=&quot;http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&amp;l2=0&amp;l3=0&amp;l4=0&amp;model=1907&amp;mode lmenu=1&quot;>http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&amp;l2=0&amp;l3=0&amp;l4=0&amp;model=1907&amp;mode lmenu=1</a>

I have been looking at this thing for a couple weeks and two days ago I've decided to order it. It should be coming in tomorrow. I love emulators and so far no portable devices had offered me good speed and a keyboard.

My DS is simply too slow and the screen resolution doesn't work for some emulators.

My GP2X is pretty good for emulation but without a keyboard it is not really good.

PocketPC's are still slow for emulation of 16 bits systems and are a little small even with physical keyboards.

My MacBook Pro is just too big and fragile.

So for $399, the Asus eeePC is really nice. I don't plan to put Windows XP on it but if Ubuntu becomes 100% compatible with it, I will install it in a heartbeat.

I like the fact that you have to work harder to get something done and these tricks that will come out in the next few weeks to boost it even more, it is a hacker's dream sort of.

Donone
11-06-2007, 07:14 PM
Just looked at it on wikipaedia (spelling) wow what a nice little thing.
I suppose this means we will suffer with little output from you, while you play :-)
Or is the story, that it will help you with PPL!!!!

PointOfLight
11-06-2007, 07:38 PM
I've been drooling over those for a while.* Of course, I'd also love to have a GP2X.* For that matter, I'd be thrilled to have a PPC that was running something newer than WM2003 :)

kornalius
11-06-2007, 08:39 PM
Support won't suffer. There is a time for play and a time for work, I keep both separate.

Andrew Beery
11-07-2007, 06:47 PM
Check out Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibon)... Best Linux release I've ever had the pleasure of using... Of course if PPL every became available for Linux... it would be an easy port to the iPhone (Basically BSD Unix) especially now that Apple has decided to provide an iPhone SDK next spring

Andrew Beery
11-07-2007, 06:49 PM
My new toy is a Sprint Touch Smart Phone... Closest thing in the Windows Mobile world to the iPhone and in a word &quot;awesome&quot; -- especially with SereneScreen on it (shameless plug)

As far as keeping work and play seperate... well some of us are better at that than others... I work real hard to make sure my work is play!

matteo.m
11-07-2007, 08:57 PM
Nice! how i make to use ppl on that ? ;)

kornalius
11-08-2007, 02:11 PM
Andrew, I have worked with Ubuntu lately and I love it. I will probably try to install it on the eeePC later when all the problems are fixed with it. Yep, Ubuntu doesnt work straight, it needs a lot of tweaking right now.