Comments on: Add everything to your eeePC

By: dade

dade — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:33:51 +0000

it an make the tea in the morning!…

By: Nightfall

Nightfall — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:39:46 +0000

amazing..What else can it do?

By: usbsecurity

usbsecurity — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:39:55 +0000

security,copy protection,usb software,data security,content security,e-learning security, video security, swf security, license management

By: EvP

EvP — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:17:28 +0000

I was surfing for info on the 2G Surf and noticed the comment
Posted at 10:38 pm on Jan 21st, 2008 by wellsfrago
and the follow
Posted at 1:12 pm on Jan 22nd, 2008 by Miles
followed by reason 4 on http://www.pocketables.net/2008/02/10-reasons-not.html.
Which makes me assume that there are 2 version of the 2G, can anyone tell me how to tell which one has the soldered ram and which has an upgraded slot?

By: Link

Link — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:52:30 +0000

Eee PC hack things on http://www.eeepc.iz.rs/tag/hack/

By: Guiruru

Guiruru — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:22:39 +0000

bizarre, most very good

By: jme

jme — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:57:45 +0000

I like the idea for the switch to turn the devices on or off but what about making a software controller? Nothing complex, just over serial and it could be mounted where the current switch is in the expansion bay.
Excellent tutorial and one of the best ive seen. I hope to get an eepc soon to start hacking…

By: Miles

Miles — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:12:19 +0000

wellsfrago is wrong. Wrong. The 2G surf is an identical motherboard, but without the cover to change the ram, if you are taking the cover off anyway, then just change the RAM while you are in there.

I really liked the Eeepc, I can’t get behind it at $300 though. I wanted the $200-$250/60 model to hack a Geforce 6200 into for TV/HDTV/multimonitor outputs, to turn it into a portable media player. (PCIe x1 is perfect, I already have the 6200 card modified to x1, just a few differential pairs and some power and we are good to go)

By: wellsfrago

wellsfrago — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:38:25 +0000

just remember that the 2g surf doesn’t allow for the 2gb memory upgrade so in other words spend the extra $50 ($350) and get the 4g surf..newegg has them

By: jeicrash

jeicrash — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:52:48 +0000

Very nice, I’m getting one of these very soon, and you have just done many of the things I was thinking of. Ever since I see the tear downs that show the extra usb port I was thinking “You could add any Small USB device to the inside” and you have done an excellent job.

By: Steve No_

Steve No_ — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:29:35 +0000

It will be fine if someone makes a torrent of this which is linked off a thinner version of the front page. It certainly counts as a 'heavy page' as it is.

It's ridiculous to say his USB wiring is inadequate; USB is meant to be less-sensitive since it's a serial port, for heavenssake. Get finicky in the case of InfiniBand (PCIe) connectors but worry more (on the case) about the antenna fields (the only thing missing in this writeup is per-antenna situation performance evaluations. Maybe USB airbags, SpaceORB joystick input....)

The laptop itself seems tolerable to use if one made several big virtual displays of it. The (mere 500:1 if I'm perceiving it right) contrast ratio kind of kills it as a pdf reader or other overliteral replacement for a ton of proper print.

By: zigzagjoe

zigzagjoe — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:22:21 +0000

very nice workmanship on that!

only thing left is a touchscreen and a USB IO chip for switching power to the various devices+software to control it

By: tony

tony — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:17:07 +0000

The USB signals are differential so there isn’t really any trouble with cross talk between the pairs. the real thing you have to watch out for with USB is external EMI or RFI. Since the entire case of the laptop acts like a shield, it cuts most of the interference down to negligible levels.

The layout is incredibly neat. Very methodical. Very Clean. Makes me want one.

By: O Mattos

O Mattos — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:41:26 +0000

This mirror works: (and has all the images, unlike google cache)

http://beta.ivancover.com.nyud.net:8080/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades

(it takes ages to load, but will load eventually)

By: dru

dru — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:22:41 +0000

this is why i got me an eee. now alls i gotta do is save up to get all the goodies.