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  1. MSI, that was the brand I would seriously look at also. There are two different 120GB drives. SSD and normal SATA (i think) Unless it says one or the other you have to look at the model number. I thought Asus only put the SSD's in the big ones now... could be wrong. For what you can do with them, you just can't beat the price. Now everyone is making them, Sony IMO builds quality laptops. but expensive... I never liked their desktops though.
  2. I bought a Eee PC 8.9" a few weeks back, going to be my CarPC. (paid $199) They are slick, works great and the battery life is amazing. If I were to purchase a netbook for my personal use, yeah... GO 10"!!! the keyboard on all of them is small, so that is a big thing you will need to get used to if you have bigger hands. I use it to surf while i'm on the couch watching TV or a Movie, works great but like i said get the bigger screen. Whatever brand you get, go for these options: 10" Atom 1.6ghz SSD HD, 64gb+ (you can still get a normal 120gb HD, but SSD is much lighter on the battery.) Ram, 1gb is fine. Buy a 2GB stick after the purchase, cheaper that way. I played with the Acer and HP netbooks along with the Eee PC. Acer and HP do feel better, the Eee PC touchpad bugs me at times...
  3. I never even thought of buying Used CD's from amazon... I have been looking for a Certain CD for YEARS... went to Amazon after reading this and found it. Just over $3 shipped.... Not only can i not ever find the CD, Not even any site sells the songs... Even searched one of the torrent searching sites... nothing. 2 minutes on Amazon and it's on the way.
  4. didn't know you could borrow them at the Library... they are not scared to lend out "Devil Muisic" lol
  5. load/reload was ok. st. anger..... yeah. some guy made a video of one of the St Anger songs, using a 5 gallon bucket for the drums... and you couldn't tell the difference lol. Death magnetic is good though. but i agree, old metallica is better. I never used napster, never bought a song from itunes either... not saying i don't have any non legal music, i think i may have maybe 10 or so songs total.... like i said, i just don't listen to muic much. and i pretty much quit before the whole file sharing crap started. I agree what they did was wrong, but i think they were just the biggest band to join in the Riaa crap. Legally they (all bands) are right about the theft, but how RIAA has all the power now... just wrong. they went about the whole lawsuit wrong. /off topic. when i am completly done with the CarPC setup, the last thing i'll do is defrag the SSD before the full install. i'll probably check the USB/SD card from time to time. but i doubt a new defrag will ever be needed.
  6. Personally I think ANY device playing a movie/video while car is in motion that the DRIVER can see.... ticket. they want to say driving while holding a Cell phone is dangerous?... Let me think, purposely take eyes off road to watch a video/movie... yeah, worse. Back seat for kids, fine. While parked, fine. while driving... nothing that can be viewed by the driver. We have enough inattentive drivers on the road as it is... lets add video for them as well. the CarPC, will only have mp3's and the related CarPC files/apps on it. the Video option is already removed from roadrunner you think 48GB is not enough? let me explain to you about me and music.... I have a single sided Data DVD with everyone of my mp3's on it, except a few random ones i found online, every song in my library is on my 16gb ipod touch right now. total size used.... just over 4.5gb. my 30gb ipod i sold, had 10gb used. i used it for file storage also. with the exception of Metallica and AC/DC CD's, along with a Van Halen greatest hits, i have not purchased a CD/download of music since i'd say 1999ish... I don't listen to music much anymore. 48GB of storage.... will be forever before i use that up.
  7. Yeah i'll pretty much disable as much as i can once i put it in the car. just a little update on the CarPC. Storage. I knew i needed quite a bit more storage... so i saw the deal of the day in general chat. 2 of these will be my storage space. along with a 16gb SD card i picked up cheap last week. http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/625/210562625.jpg I thought i would have to buy a few USB sticks and have to remove all the plastic crap surrounding them. Looks like Kingston already had that in mind so a total of 48GB of storage to complement the weak 4GB onboard. i also found i can buy a 64 gb SSD for $179.00 heh. drops right in the EeePC. I figure if i can find a trashed EeePC with a 8GB SSD in it... i may grab it if it's cheap someday. but the 4GB for windows/frontend crap is fine. Money sink... err CarPC total thus far: Netbook $200 Storage $80.
  8. after a long nightmare... it's running fine and no more little quirks popping up. Word of advice for those thinking of playing with NLite. It's a great tool, but just know that the first 2-3 times you use it... odds are you will make mistakes that will drive you nuts and make you start over again. I'd say from power off to desktop, 20-30 seconds maybe... haven't timed it. loading windows is slower than the Linux that was on it. that was like maybe 10 seconds... WinXP Pro SP3 btw. Also put AVG free AV on it for the time being, just while it is able to get online. once in the car... i'll really have no need for AV anymore. So the AV may be slowing the boot time a little also. Roadrunner is installed, but i havn't even begun messing with it after last night... get up this morning and the screen resolution kept reverting back to 1024x768.. screen is only 1024x600. two drivers from Asus were conflicting. was a known issue i guess. after i get Roadrunner how i want it, i'll start working on performance. just finished installing all the drivers, wireless works fine now. although i notice the range is not nearly as good or strong as my other laptop. but i don't care, once installed in my car wireless will be turned off and probably never get on the net again. just bring any software/updates over via USB stick. have to say, the netbooks... are quite nice. Screen is sharp, speed is pretty good. (for $200 i'm impressed with the speed. 2gb ram would be nice though) Keyboard is small for my tastes, but again once installed in car it won't hardly ever be used. Question, anyone know of a link or a list of exactly which Services NEED to run on a CarPC? which ones we can turn off? I know of quite a few to turn off, but i wonder if the CarPC since it's only running certain things, if there are more we can turn off safely.
  9. yeah but not worth $250 like i said, i had almost everything up on the old laptop in 20-30 minutes... it's simple when the community already has done the lion's share of the work. just download, and go. anyway, got the Eee PC today. nightmare getting windows XP to install correctly. by the 2nd-3rd time i ran Nlite, i figured out i screwed that up... Had XP up and running, everything looked good, and the Wireless just would not work... after an hour of messing with the drivers and everything i can think of, some of the stupid networking components were not installed... back to nlite. This time i think i got everything running right.
  10. ^^ exactly why i started down that road. Like i said i looked at linux, first really, but the community is not as big. and there were things that the linux builds just couldn't do yet. I found that with RR, they say the old version of winamp works best. found that link and downloaded it already. skins, found a few i like. edited one to be pretty much how i want it already. so many guides and help out there for it. figured out how to stop the damn spinning logo that some have, neat at first but gets SO annoying... nutshell, RR does what i want it to do. and i don't mind learning a new piece of software and adapt to or work around it's "features".
  11. really? then since it took me 20 minutes to get RR exactly how i want it already... I guess CF would be done in 3 seconds? Centrafuse is $250.... i don't care how much easier it is to use/install/configure. I got RR for free, and setup in 20 minutes.... that blows $250 away, no matter how easy it is.
  12. the main reason i like RR over Centrafuse.... the $250 price tag for Centrafuse. If i'm making all the CarPC stuff work myself, i'll mess with the free/cheap stuff before i fork over that kind of money for software... I even thought of doing the whole CarPC in Linux just for that reason. RR is one of the biggest reasons i'll use winxp now. And there was a few things the Linux setup can't do (yet) that i wanted to do. maybe not right away, but eventually.
  13. thats what i figured, the USB thumbdrives would be better. yeah, already have Nlite downloaded. I like Centrafuse, but the pricetag made me cringe. thats why i'm going with the free frontend for now.
  14. $100?...... hell i'd do a mac for a CarPC if i found one for $100..... used i take it? And yes, we do have room under the floor, just like your wagon. not much... but some space. I'll take a pic of the trunk shelf tomorrow if i remember. I'm tempted to use part of the shelf to put the CarPC in, pad it up of course. with the Netbooks and the minimac noted above, they both could easily fit in the shelf. I'll do some measuring also of the shelf itself cause i bet no modifications would be needed for me to put the Eee PC in it. only problem is ventilation. But someone posted some pics using one of the sides of the trunk, refabricating the carpet to conceal/protect the CarPC. I like that idea. but i really doubt the Eee PC will get real hot or need much vent space. with no spindles in the entire thing, it will run a lot cooler than the average laptop. Quick question: so my CarPC has 4GB SSD. not going to cut it in the long run. the way i see it, i have two options: USB sticks, or one of those 100+ GB external drives. the USB sticks have no moving parts, probably generate zero/minimal heat. but limited in size. the External drive, is a normal HD. so heat, needs padding, but gigantic for size. any downfall to placing a external HD in the car? just keep it padded and keep it cool and it should be ok right?
  15. Find someone in your area with a CarPC already installed, play with it Well, i started the CarPC process today... http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=164&l3=0&l4=0&model=2152&modelmenu=1 Bestbuy had this for $199 1GB ram 4GB SSD with Linux installed, but while in bestbuy... I took over one of the demo PC's and did a quick search for putting XP on one of the Linux based Eee PC's. found all i need I have a legal copy of XP Home sitting here, or i could go the not so legal Pro-SP3. All it takes is running the setup from a USB thumbdrive, downloading the drivers off asus.com support site, and a program that strips the fat from the XP install CD, and only puts like 550mb footprint on the drive. They had none in stock, so had to order it. will be here Thursday/Friday. I played with Road Runner for XP, Frontend for carpc, I like it so far. it's free so i'll stick with that for now. now only 2 more big price items.... screen and bezel. not sure if i'll just dump a few USB drives in a HUB, or buy a cheap USB HD for more storage for MP3's. I figure if i can't get the power button to work, modding it, i'll use the wake on lan trick some use. I won't be doing the full install til spring, but i'll be sure and take pics when i start. And if anyone wants to know, the Linux installed on the thing... sucks. http://tairona.idg.com.au//mim.php/prodid/5506/vid/0/angleid/6/resid/2/s/5506
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