$399 XP Asus 1000HE Netbook in oz.

[David L. Jones]

David L. Jones wrote:

Jeßus wrote:
In article <02e72a17$0$1328$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
nicetry@migo.com said...

keithr wrote:
snip
I'm using one now, the 10" screen is fine (1024x600) my only
problem with it is the tiny shift key.

The claimed 9 hour battery life may be a bit expectant though, I've
never managed much better than 6 hours with the screen turned down,
WiFi, camera and bluetooth turned off, and the CPU at the lowest
clock speed. Realistically with WiFi on the battery lasts 4 hours
give or take.
I have put a 2 gig DIMM in in place of the 1 gig supplied.

Probably goes some ways to explaining the decrease in battery life.

Would RAM really chew that much extra power though?

Some back of envelope calcs:

Taking a random 1GB SODIMM datasheet:
http://download.micron.com/pdf/datasheets/modules/ddr2/HTF16C128_256x64H.pdf
(not sure if it's actually compatible, but should give a reasonbale
estimate anyway)
The typical active standby current is almost 1A @ 1.8V, or 1.8W, and
that's doing nothing. Can be over 6W peak when doing stuff.

The 1000HE battery pack is around 90Wh (8700mAh @ 10.8V), so would use
roughly 10W for 9 hours. The standard 1GB SODIMM would take almost
1/5th of that power just sitting idle doing nothing. Likely to be
significantly higher in actual use, so say the SODIMM might be as
high as 30% of the consumption.
So the double capacity SODIMM would be a fairly significant extra
consumption, and the figures would roughly match up to what Keith
gets.

Whoops, turns out the actual battery pack is marked 62Wh (8700mAh @ 7.2V),
not 90Wh I got from some website.
So those ballpack consumption figures for the SODIMM are even worse than I
quoted.

Dave.

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[SG1]

"keithr" <keithr@nowhere.com.au> wrote in message
news:4adb970e$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...

On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...

Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...


Me too post

:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.

Bon voyage

Merci

You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Geez, Roddles has a problem with English. Now you have thrown a big spanner
into his little workshop.

 

[Rod Speed]

keithr wrote:

On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...

Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...


Me too post

:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.

Bon voyage

Merci

You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.

 

[keithr]

On 19/10/2009 2:25 PM, Rod Speed wrote:

keithr wrote:
On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...

Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...


Me too post

:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.

Bon voyage

Merci

You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.


Tch Tch roddles, don't you even know the difference between a wog an a frog?

 

[Don McKenzie]

David L. Jones wrote:

Mine is only about 5km away!
If I was in my companies old building, it would only be literally two doors
away.
Who will score first and win bragging rights?...
Dave.

Looks like I'll win last place, I haven't heard a thing, and they aren't
responding. :-(

Shoot the messenger, shoot the messenger

Cheers Don...



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[Clocky]

keithr wrote:

On 19/10/2009 2:25 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...

Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...


Me too post

:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.

Bon voyage

Merci

You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.


Tch Tch roddles, don't you even know the difference between a wog an
a frog?

Frogwog.

 

[Bob Larter]

Rod Speed wrote:

keithr wrote:
On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...
Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...

Me too post
:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.
Bon voyage
Merci
You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.

When did the French become wogs?

--
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. | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because
\|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est
---^----^---------------------------------------------------------------

 

[Rod Speed]

keithr wrote:

On 19/10/2009 2:25 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...

Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...


Me too post

:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.

Bon voyage

Merci

You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.


Tch Tch roddles, don't you even know the difference between a wog an
a frog?

Stupid pom's so stupid that it hasn't even noticed that the wogs start at Calais.

 

[Rod Speed]

Bob Larter wrote:

Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...
Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...

Me too post
:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.
Bon voyage
Merci
You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.

When did the French become wogs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
The saying "The wogs begin at Calais" was originated by George Wigg,
Labour MP for Dudley, in 1949. In a parliamentary debate concerning
the Burmese, Wigg shouted at the Tory benches, "The Honourable
Gentleman and his friends think they are all 'wogs'. Indeed, the Right
Honourable Member for Woodford [i.e. Winston Churchill] thinks that
the 'wogs' begin at Calais."[3] Wigg's coinage, sometimes paraphrased
as "Wogs start at the Channel" or "Wogs start at Dover", is used to
characterise a stodgy Europhobic viewpoint, and more generally the
view that Britain (more so England) is inherently separate from (and
superior to) the Continent. In this case, "wog" is used to compare any
foreign, non-English person to those more traditionally labeled "wogs".

 

[Don McKenzie]

Don McKenzie wrote:

http://www.catchoftheday.com.au

$399, how can you go wrong?

I just picked up 2 at the 12:00 sale.
asus eeepc 1000HE, 9 hour battery life.
and it is one of the best netbooks around.

Geez, well it looks like it is finally starting to move in my direction.
See Below:

Cheers Don...

==========================================================


You may track your parcel by visiting http://auspost.com.au/track/ and
entering the tracking number 8CB0702444 or call 131318 and quote this
number if the parcel does not arrive within 9 business days.

Your order may be marked in Australia Post's system as "Manifest
Received". This means that your order has been assigned a tracking
number and is ready to be picked up. It may take a few days for the
parcel to begin moving through Australia Post's system.


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[Clocky]

Rod Speed wrote:

Bob Larter wrote:
Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...
Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...

Me too post
:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.
Bon voyage
Merci
You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.

When did the French become wogs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
The saying "The wogs begin at Calais" was originated by George Wigg,
Labour MP for Dudley, in 1949. In a parliamentary debate concerning
the Burmese, Wigg shouted at the Tory benches, "The Honourable
Gentleman and his friends think they are all 'wogs'. Indeed, the Right
Honourable Member for Woodford [i.e. Winston Churchill] thinks that
the 'wogs' begin at Calais."[3] Wigg's coinage, sometimes paraphrased
as "Wogs start at the Channel" or "Wogs start at Dover", is used to
characterise a stodgy Europhobic viewpoint, and more generally the
view that Britain (more so England) is inherently separate from (and
superior to) the Continent. In this case, "wog" is used to compare any
foreign, non-English person to those more traditionally labeled
"wogs".

The same wogs that overran England in 1066 and transformed them for the
better?

 

[keithr]

Don McKenzie wrote:

Don McKenzie wrote:

http://www.catchoftheday.com.au

$399, how can you go wrong?

I just picked up 2 at the 12:00 sale.
asus eeepc 1000HE, 9 hour battery life.
and it is one of the best netbooks around.

Geez, well it looks like it is finally starting to move in my direction.
See Below:

Cheers Don...

==========================================================


You may track your parcel by visiting http://auspost.com.au/track/ and
entering the tracking number 8CB0702444 or call 131318 and quote this
number if the parcel does not arrive within 9 business days.

Your order may be marked in Australia Post's system as "Manifest
Received". This means that your order has been assigned a tracking
number and is ready to be picked up. It may take a few days for the
parcel to begin moving through Australia Post's system.


I don't know what is happening with mine:-

19/10/09 21:00 Manifest accepted PF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)
17/10/09 17:16 Manifest received PF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)

 

[Don McKenzie]

keithr wrote:

I don't know what is happening with mine:-

19/10/09 21:00 Manifest accepted PF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)
17/10/09 17:16 Manifest received PF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)

Event Date/Time (Local Time) Event Description Location
19/10/09 21:00 Manifest accepted MPF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)
19/10/09 17:35 Manifest received MPF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)

Mine is above.

I think it simply means Oz post got yours on the 17th, and stuck it in a
corner next to mine, on the 19th.

At least Mr Catch sent them off to Mr Oz Post, and "Mr Bus".


Cheers Don...


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[L.A.T.]

"L.A.T." <tt92@ispdr.net.au> wrote in message
news:hFNCm.48530$ze1.27298@news-server.bigpond.net.au...

Bingo!
It's amazing. Why didn't I get two?
We are so surprised at the capability of this little thing that we are

throwing more and more unlikely tasks at it and it eats them all.
It has a bit of trouble with webcam movies. Compared with the
fully-featured, brick-heavy, pricey, Vista-encumbered Toshiba laptop, it is
a bit jerky in that it seems to capture fewer frames per second.
Is this likely to be because its CPU speed is slower, or because it has less
RAM?
Just curious.
>

 

[David L. Jones]

L.A.T. wrote:

"L.A.T." <tt92@ispdr.net.au> wrote in message
news:hFNCm.48530$ze1.27298@news-server.bigpond.net.au...

Bingo!
It's amazing. Why didn't I get two?
We are so surprised at the capability of this little thing that we are
throwing more and more unlikely tasks at it and it eats them all.
It has a bit of trouble with webcam movies. Compared with the
fully-featured, brick-heavy, pricey, Vista-encumbered Toshiba laptop,
it is a bit jerky in that it seems to capture fewer frames per second.
Is this likely to be because its CPU speed is slower, or because it
has less RAM?
Just curious.

Be careful using webcam frame rate as a speed reference.
I used a webcam for my first blog and found out that the frame rates changes
(a huge amount) with the ambient light level. I don't know if this is the
case with the eee one, but something to watch out for.

Dave.
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[Don McKenzie]

Don McKenzie wrote:

I think it simply means Oz post got yours on the 17th, and stuck it in a
corner next to mine, on the 19th.

At least Mr Catch sent them off to Mr Oz Post, and "Mr Bus".

Update today:

Event Date/Time (Local Time) Event Description Location
21/10/09 07:12 Awaiting Collection from Post Office TULLAMARINE BC
21/10/09 06:43 Transferred to TULLAMARINE BC AIRPORT WEST DC
21/10/09 06:17 Accepted by Driver - For Transfer AIRPORT WEST DC
21/10/09 06:15 Processed at facility AIRPORT WEST DC
19/10/09 21:00 Manifest accepted MPF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)
19/10/09 17:35 Manifest received MPF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)

Mr Bus Monday, and caught a later bus.

Looks like I collect today from my business P.O. Box.

Cheers Don...


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[keithr]

On 21/10/2009 8:02 AM, Don McKenzie wrote:

Don McKenzie wrote:

I think it simply means Oz post got yours on the 17th, and stuck it in
a corner next to mine, on the 19th.

At least Mr Catch sent them off to Mr Oz Post, and "Mr Bus".


Update today:

Event Date/Time (Local Time) Event Description Location
21/10/09 07:12 Awaiting Collection from Post Office TULLAMARINE BC
21/10/09 06:43 Transferred to TULLAMARINE BC AIRPORT WEST DC
21/10/09 06:17 Accepted by Driver - For Transfer AIRPORT WEST DC
21/10/09 06:15 Processed at facility AIRPORT WEST DC
19/10/09 21:00 Manifest accepted MPF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)
19/10/09 17:35 Manifest received MPF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)

Mr Bus Monday, and caught a later bus.

Looks like I collect today from my business P.O. Box.

Cheers Don...


Mine arrived about 10 mins ago.

 

[keithr]

On 20/10/2009 5:58 AM, Rod Speed wrote:

Bob Larter wrote:
Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...
Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a tracking
number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...

Me too post
:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.
Bon voyage
Merci
You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.

When did the French become wogs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
The saying "The wogs begin at Calais" was originated by George Wigg,
Labour MP for Dudley, in 1949. In a parliamentary debate concerning
the Burmese, Wigg shouted at the Tory benches, "The Honourable
Gentleman and his friends think they are all 'wogs'. Indeed, the Right
Honourable Member for Woodford [i.e. Winston Churchill] thinks that
the 'wogs' begin at Calais."[3] Wigg's coinage, sometimes paraphrased
as "Wogs start at the Channel" or "Wogs start at Dover", is used to
characterise a stodgy Europhobic viewpoint, and more generally the
view that Britain (more so England) is inherently separate from (and
superior to) the Continent. In this case, "wog" is used to compare any
foreign, non-English person to those more traditionally labeled "wogs".



Oh Oh, the pig ignorant quoting the pig ignorant.

 

[Don McKenzie]

keithr wrote:

On 21/10/2009 8:02 AM, Don McKenzie wrote:
Don McKenzie wrote:

I think it simply means Oz post got yours on the 17th, and stuck it in
a corner next to mine, on the 19th.

At least Mr Catch sent them off to Mr Oz Post, and "Mr Bus".


Update today:

Event Date/Time (Local Time) Event Description Location
21/10/09 07:12 Awaiting Collection from Post Office TULLAMARINE BC
21/10/09 06:43 Transferred to TULLAMARINE BC AIRPORT WEST DC
21/10/09 06:17 Accepted by Driver - For Transfer AIRPORT WEST DC
21/10/09 06:15 Processed at facility AIRPORT WEST DC
19/10/09 21:00 Manifest accepted MPF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)
19/10/09 17:35 Manifest received MPF BULK LETTERS (PROFIT CTR)

Mr Bus Monday, and caught a later bus.

Looks like I collect today from my business P.O. Box.

Cheers Don...


Mine arrived about 10 mins ago.

and my two about 5 mins ago.

Cheers Don...




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[Rod Speed]

keithr wrote:

On 20/10/2009 5:58 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
Bob Larter wrote:
Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
On 18/10/2009 7:57 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
keithr wrote:
Jeßus wrote:
In article<4ad98461$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, keith@nowhere.com.au
said...
Don McKenzie wrote:
Clocky wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:
L.A.T. wrote:
Mine has been "shipped".
Not sure what that means, but they have given us a
tracking number.
Hey, so has mine!
Might just get it by next Friday then...

Me too post
:-(
First in, last out?

Me no post still.

Don...


My shipping notice came in this afternoon.
Bon voyage
Merci
You dont qualify for any mercy, stupid.


Sacre bleu! Il est l'idiot de l'ouest. Bon chance mon petit
cochon.

Fuck off wog boy.

When did the French become wogs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
The saying "The wogs begin at Calais" was originated by George Wigg,
Labour MP for Dudley, in 1949. In a parliamentary debate concerning
the Burmese, Wigg shouted at the Tory benches, "The Honourable
Gentleman and his friends think they are all 'wogs'. Indeed, the
Right Honourable Member for Woodford [i.e. Winston Churchill] thinks
that the 'wogs' begin at Calais."[3] Wigg's coinage, sometimes
paraphrased as "Wogs start at the Channel" or "Wogs start at Dover",
is used to characterise a stodgy Europhobic viewpoint, and more
generally the view that Britain (more so England) is inherently
separate from (and superior to) the Continent. In this case, "wog"
is used to compare any foreign, non-English person to those more
traditionally labeled "wogs".

Oh Oh, the pig ignorant quoting the pig ignorant.

Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.