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The eeepc's do have a fan in them, although it really is pretty much silent. I think the fan only kicks on when the system is under load anyway, but as long as the cooling ports are open it runs really slow and you would be hard pressed to be able to say if it is on or not.
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Thanks all of you guys for your helpful feedback and experiences. The HP 2133 now appeals most to me with exception of its processor speed. I think I'll wait a few months until the next revision is released... it'd be nice if they put something other than the VIA C7 in it.
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As far steves silent concern and ...'s reply to load fan operation, your partly corect, asus uses a temp and load control, which kinda run hand in hand, but i can vouche (even thogh) I don't have an eee, my F7 is completly silent and even when the fan Does kick on its maybe only 50db at max if that even.
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Dave Marshall wrote ...
I'd strongly recommend you look at the MSI Wind, and HP2133. I've got a 2133 with a 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of ram (120GB hard drive) The keyboard is *dramatically* better than the eee PC.
Sold -- to the man in blue! I've purchased the HP 2133, along with a 6-cell spare battery. The Via C7 just doesn't have enough grunt for Vista (or Vista sucks), so I'm trying to format the hard drive and install XP -- an "interesting" exercise with no optical drive!
After much struggling with bootable SD cards, and bootable USB sticks, blue screens of 0x0000007B and 0x000000A5 (inaccessible boot device / ACPI bios incompatibility), I think I've got all the wrinkles ironed out for installing XP:
- the XP CD MUST be a slipstreamed or SP2 disc, AND - the hard drive must be a single partition (which, while annoying, I can live with).
I'm annoyed I spent so long flashing BIOSes and repartitioning/reformatting the drive, trying to boot from SD cards etc (dodgy), when it now seems easiest to have booted from a USB > IDE adapter. Will let you know if I actually get there!
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Typing here on the 2133 with XP SP2 -- it was worth persevering, and I've thrown out my 'vanilla' XP disc which was causing all the problems.
XP really is very responsive and snappy, and the processor is fast enough to decode DVDs without dropped frames, I'm very impressed! (At least, it worked with the USB > IDE -- I'm sure it'll be just fine from the HDD). OpenGL performance is medium as expected, but I am not expecting or needing this to be a graphics machine, but it's nice to know I can use it for development if I had to. =)
Time to install the webserver -- thanks again Dave for the recommendation
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