Webcam on PMT!

Oh yeah... so what was the outcome of connecting up a 9 inch screen on a
7 inch model? Electronically I think it should work ok. I don't know of
the BIOS needs to be updated to support the higher resolution screen or
not. But physically, it sounds like a very tight fit to me. As it seems
so much easier to just get a real 9 inch netbook to me. ;-)

 

From Wikipedia: "In some countries, the products have the marketing
names EeePC 8G, 4G, 4G Surf, and 2G Surf, though in other countries
the machines are still designated by the model numbers 700 and 701."

Apparently in this country they marketed by the name only. Course it
would be interesting to see what the box said but that's long gone.

My 2G Surf came with XP drivers on the disk, though as I said before,
when I put XP on it, it was not a great experience.

Yes, my Surf definitely has the cheaper SSD, making it slow, but still
useable. And what do you expect for US$199 anyway...

Postscript:

I just dug out my 2G manual dated December 2007. They slipped up. At
the bottom of page 3 it says "ASUS Eee PC 700". That is the only place
that I could find in the entire manual where it refers to a model
number. (At the bottom of all the other pages it just says "ASUS Eee
PC"...

 

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Well I still have five boxes here. And the boxes are exactly the same no
matter which model was in there. And the ones that came with XP have the
Windows logo. The only other difference is a label on the side that
tells you what is in the box.

1) Model: 701 (this one is a Surf)
AU EEEPC4G_Surf/701/1BLK/US

2) Model: EeePC 4G
AU EEEPC4G/701/1BLK/US

3) Model: 701 (this one is from the UK)
AU 701 4GA/512M/UK/1BLACK

4) Model: EeePC 8G
AU EEEPC8G/702/WHI/US

5) Model: EeePC 8G
AU EEEPC8G/702/WHI/US

Fascinating. My manuals states:

E3509 (Xandros)

Eee PC 4G (701)
Eee PC 4G Surf
Eee PC 8G

October 2007

And the manuals between all of them are the same, except for the ones
that came with Windows XP. They are totally different.

E3683 (Windows XP)

Eee PC 8G
Eee PC 4G
Eee PC 4G Surf

February 2008

 

Those two should read:

AU EEEPC8G/702/1WHI/US

Asus adds that number one before the color. All five have it. Not sure
what it means.

 

Sure wish I'd saved my box. You never know when you'll need one to
solve a mystery...

So most of your manuals (except the one quoted) don't give
model numbers either.

I did a little searching and have yet to find a site that gives an
actual model number for the 2G Surf. Only the apparent one time slip
up in the 2G manual (700) and Wikipedia's article (700 or 701) give a
clue. As you can tell I have a lot of free time on my hands...

 

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They are not all that big and I have mine up on the bookshelf.

No I mean there are only two different manuals (E3509 and E3683) that I
have. All of the Linux ones are all one manual (E3509) and all of the
Windows ones are another (E3683). And the Linux manual covers the
following three models. It doesn't matter if they are a 701 or a 702
model.

E3509 (Xandros)

Eee PC 4G (701)
Eee PC 4G Surf
Eee PC 8G

October 2007

And the Windows ones are all of the same and cover the following models.

E3683 (Windows XP)

Eee PC 8G
Eee PC 4G
Eee PC 4G Surf

February 2008

So what's the E number of your manual?

Here is a link to the XP version (although two months older than what I
have) I found. So you can see what I mean.

http://www.retrevo.com/support/Asus-8G-Laptops-manual/id/7047bh043/t/2/

So what are you running on your Surf? I had to give up on Xandros since
Firefox 2 can't view many websites anymore (worse than trying to use
IE6). So I am using Ubuntu once again.

 

My 2G Surf manual is E3607 (Dec 2007).
The XP Installation Guide insert is E3606 (Dec 2007).

To add to the confusion:

Manual for my 1000HW (purchased 10-08):
No manual number/no manual date. Title page says XP edition, covers
1000 series and 904/905 series.

Manual for my 1015PE (purchased 5-11):
Manual: E5871 (no date)
Technical Update Insert: E5782 (no date)

It's completely stock. I brought it back to the factory standards
using the built in hidden recovery partition.

Have you tried using the built in Konqueror browser/file manager? It
still does a pretty good job, course YMMV.

That won't fit on the 2G. However I have used the 10-10 version dual
booting on a couple of my XP laptops. In both cases it was mostly
slower than XP, ran the battery down faster, and of course wouldn't
run much of the Windows software I like (like this Agent newsreader -
Pan was no substitute). I of course tried Wine but while it partially
worked, it always seemed to have a problem with my stuff.

 

I think that was the answer! (i.e it just ain't worth the hassle trying)

 

It's a windows app?
I'm running xpud - so there should be a way.