Category: PC

Shuttle’s $199 KPC Linux PC

This year really could be the year for Linux in the home. Shuttle has been showing off a $199 PC at CES. The Shuttle PC runs the KPC Linux distro and was announced on Tuesday. They didn’t actually have it on the CES show floor, you actually had to visit a private suite at the Bellagio to check it out but none the less they were showing it off.

The computer will have a Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of RAM and the option of either a 60GB or 80GB hard drive.

The computer doesn’t have an optical drive or any PCIe slots but its a great looking box that will do what most home users will need it to do.

The new PC will come in either red, blue, white, or black each with a different color icon stamped on the front.

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Asus Eee PC for $299 and Now With Colors

The Asus Eee PC is now available online for $299, and not only that but now you can also purchase them in colors.

There are 5 colors to choose from:

Black
White
Pink
Blue
Green

The $299 version comes with 512MB of memory and a 2GB solid state hard disk. This version is also missing the webcam but does still come with the MMC/SD (SDHC) card slot.

There is also an addition of a $399 version which comes with 1GB of memory and an 8GB solid state disk. (I personally would spring for the $299 Black version if I was looking to purchase a smaller notebook).

Install Leopard on a PC

I love the Mac operating system but I’ll tell you what, it has always frustrated me that you can’t build your own Mac. I’ve been building computers for about 5 years now and when I switched to the Mac a year ago I pretty much left that behind me (luckily my family members still want me to build them computers).

But now since you can run Leopard on a PC, you can build your own Mac. Here are the steps.

  • Head over to Mininova and grab the modified Leopard ISO (I’m not linking directly to it but I’ll give you a hint, searching for “iATKOS v1.0i” would be pretty interesting)
  • The ISO is about 2.09GB and it shouldn’t be too hard to find.
  • Burn the ISO to a DVD
  • Boot from the freshly burned DVD and follow the on screen instructions.

The installation takes about in hour but once that is finished you will have a nice fresh copy of Leopard installed.

Currently only some Intel based processors work and AMD processors are not supported.

Remember that this may break the license agreement of Leopard and because of the DMCA it is of questionable legality.

Asus Eee Gets Modded With a Touchscreen

The modder was able to get a nice deal ($60 on ebay) on a touchscreen LCD built to be put into cars. This is a really cool hack but it just doesn’t seem very practical unless you could swivel the screen and close it with the LCD out. Having to reach over the keyboard like that all the time would probably get a little annoying.

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Windows Vista Running on Asus Eee PC

Why would you want to install Windows Vista on an Asus Eee PC? To see if you could. Well, you can.

The Eee PC that it is run on has 512MB of ram, and an 8GB SD card.

The Vista install has been stripped down using vLite. Most of the drivers were in Windows Update however some of the drivers were installed from a USB key.

Everything works fine including sound and Wifi, even the web cam works!

I’m sure XP would be quite a bit faster but at least we know that this tiny little laptop is capable of running Vista.

via CrunchGear

Via Announces Do It Yourself $300 Mini-PC Kit

This Friday Via Technologies will begin rolling out the “ARTIiGO” DIY mini-pc kit. The kit includes the EPIA PX10000 Pico-ITX motherboard with a 1GHz C7 Via processor, a small case to hold the PC, power adapter, and some accessories. The do it yourself package does not include a hard drive or memory.

The unit measures 5.9 x 4.3 x 1.8 Inches and weighs less than 1.2 pounds. The kit is going to be sold for $300 which I believe to be a very fair price. Although it doesn’t come with everything you need to run the computer I’m sure you could put one together with this kit for less than $400.

Here is a video of the build:

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More Asus Eee PC News

First off, the source code and XP drivers have shown up online at Asus’s support web site. If you want to get yourself an Asus Eee PC but would like to have Windows XP installed but don’t want to wait for Asus to start selling it with XP installed you can most likely install XP on it with an external optical drive. Download it here.

You can also now purchase the Eee PC at amazon.com.

Here are the videos from Notebook Review’s review:

Initial Thoughts

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$199 PC in Wal-Mart, Use the OS on it Today

Wal-Mart has begun selling a $199 PC powered by a Via C7-D Processor and running Linux. The PC is manufactured by Everex and comes with 512MB of DDR2 memory and an 80GB hard drive. The Linux distro running on the computer is called gOS which is based on Ubuntu 7.10.

You can purchase the computer for yourself here.

Since the Operating System (OS) is Open Source you can actually download gOS and put it on a computer of your choice. You can get the ISO for the OS here from the official site or you can download it here at LinuxTracker.org. The ISO is 728MB so it won’t fit on a CD-R but will fit on a DVD-R with plenty of room to spare. gOS comes as a LiveCD so you will be able to play around with gOS before you install it.

(by the way, the g doesn’t stand for Google it stands for Green)

I think that this is a pretty cool idea, I don’t really think that it will sell that well because people who don’t know much about computers will probably be upset if they come home and find something they aren’t accustomed to when they boot up their brand new computer for the first time. But, this is a really neat low-cost computer that I don’t think people should rule out just because of the OS installed.

Asus Eee PC Unboxed

The Asus Eee PC is a pretty cool looking little notebook. I’ve wanted to get my hands on it since it came out but haven’t been able to yet. I’m hoping I’ll be able to check it out soon but for now I’m going to have to be content with just watching other people have fun unboxing it and playing with the device.

So here’s a video of BradLinder unboxing the Eee PC.

Asus Eee PC Goes On Sale On Newegg

The Asus Eee PC is a pretty cool little Linux based laptop, I would love to have this thing. It is very similar to the Palm Foleo except it is cheaper.

Newegg.com just began selling the Eee PC for $399.99 (not exactly $299 as I posted about a while back, here), here are the specs:

Intel Mobile CPU
7″ WVGA Display
512MB DDR2
4GB Solid-State Disk
Intel UMA Graphics
3.5 hours of battery life
802.11b/g
Built in Web cam
2.0 lbs

Not exactly the most powerful system but it sure is lightweight and useful for people who just need to do some email or web browsing, and maybe even some word processing.

If you are curious about the interface of the device there is a cool little website showing it off that you can check out here.

Buy the Asus Eee PC here.

Asus Announces $299 Eee PC

Within a few weeks the Asus Eee PC will be available to everyone in North America, and I have to be honest, I’m a little excited. The 2-pound, 7-inch, Linux/Windows laptop will be available in just a few configurations for $299-$399 (that’s why I’m excited). (By the way according to Gearlog, the price will start at $245, the price I quoted early comes from Cnet).

From all of the research I’ve done on the Eee PC everyone is saying that three of the four configurations that are listed on Asus’s website will be available to North American consumers, the top three (all four are listed below). Every configuration features solid-state disk drives and at least 2.8 hours of battery life.

The device seems to be filling the gap that the Palm Foleo left open when it was canceled. I personally think that for most people, this is all the computer that they need. If your daily computer life only includes checking your email and visiting websites like Facebook and MySpace this will be more then enough.

  • Eee PC 8G – 1GB of memory, 8GB SSD, built in webcam, and 3.5 hours of battery life.
  • Eee PC 4G – 512MB of memory, 4GB SSD, built in webcam, and 3.5 hours of battery life.
  • Eee PC 4g Surf – 512MB of memory, 4GB SSD, no built in webcam, and 2.8 hours of battery life.
  • Eee PC 2G Surf – 256MB of memory, 2GB SSD, no built in webcam, and 2.8 hours of battery life.

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