It has been a while since I last mentioned my little Asus Eee 701 netbook. I still use it daily and everything has generally been great. However, I’ve had a couple stability issues with it lately (due to 3rd party apps I’ve tried out) so, on a whim, decided it was time to have a
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Last Friday I got to work, booted up my little Eee netbook and quickly realized that it wasn’t on the network. No DropBox. No IM. No Web. I love this little thing, but without a network connection it suddenly becomes a weird paperweight.
I toggled the WiFi hotkey and confirmed that it was indeed on. Nothing.
I
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The last time I wrote about my ASUS Eee netbook I mentioned that if I were to rush out and buy another netbook for myself I’d probably go with the Acer Aspire One 8.9” model. At the time, I’d only read reviews and looked at pictures but the keyboard size and video resolution looked pretty
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By default, Dropbox stores stuff somewhere under “My Documents” on XP or under “Documents” on Vista. I’ve never had a problem with that – until I started to use it on my Eee netbook. See, that has a tiny little 4GB solid state drive. Where possible, I like to move “transient” and cache data off
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Fascinating! The “Google Linux desktop has arrived” discusses some folks who have Android running on an Asus netbook.