Hello! I'm new to both this community and asus products in general. Last week I purchased the asus 1018p (best buy variant) and so far I'm loving it's ultraportability and am very happy with the fact that Ubuntu works perfectly on it.
In the last few days though, I've read some posts on other forums about the durability of the 1018 (The screen in particular), and asus products in general. Does anyone have more insight into this? Exactly how careful am I going to have to be with this eeepc? I planned on bringing it to classes with me in a soft case, but now I'm a little worried.

...then this unboxing/hands-on video of the Asus Eee PC T101-MT might go some way towards confirming it for you:

ASUS EEE PC T101 MT hands on and preview from John Pope on Vimeo.

(Nice telescopic stylus, though. *Rolls eyes.*)

Via: http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-gets-early-review-disappointing-video-2675688/

Hello. As I know, most of netbooks have screen resolution 1024x600, but it's hard to find wallpapers with this resolution. I want to introduce my own site with such wallpapers: 1024x600.ru. Here you can see wallpapers only with resolution 1024x600. Now it's about 750 elements in different albums: nature, celebrities, auto, fantasy girls.

Some of them:
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Here's the link: http://www.liliputing.com/2010/01/asus-eee-pc-1005pe-review.html

And, because it crops up as a point against this particular model in the review, is everyone as mystified as m'self about the apparent popularity of shiny netbook screens? It seems to have been a dividing characteristic ever since that first rivalry between the Asus Eee PC 701 and the Acer Aspire One.

(Just curious.)

Hi all
So glad to have found this site.
I have this new Netbook Asus Eee and am finding I need to do a lot of work on it before I can actually use it.
Little frustrating since I am not a computer person.
I have no word processing and do not want to buy a new one - have CD's from past installations. So I guess the first thing I must do is buy and external CD-Rom drive so I can load Word Perfect or Word on here... is that correct?
If I just go to ebay and type in external cdrom drive will ANY that pop up be ok? Do they burn CD's as well as load & read?
I need to be able to burn photos to CD or DVD so that I do not need to store them on Netbook - apparently not enough room for large numbers of photos.
Should I type in something different (on ebay) to get an external cd rom drive for loading programs and also burning cd's?
Also, when working with photos on here is there such a thing as a little plug in something that would allow me to have more space while working on photos (for example Windows movie maker) that will keep puter running fast and not freeze it up due to overload?
Sorry if questions are incredibly simple minded - like I said, I'm clearly not a computer person.
I have many more questions but thought I would start off gently so as to not frighten off anyone :o)
Thank you very much
Barbara

...but this rule-breaking 1004DN model with a DVD-ROM drive built in is currently only on sale in Taiwan. Details* here:

http://www.netbookzone.org/?p=196


*As with many entries on the English language version of the site, the translation is a little iffy in places.

netbook_uk from http://netbookreview.co.uk - added this morning, and already includes (among ten entries) a hands-on item on the new Eee PC, along with a chance for UK-based netbook owners (and prospective owners) to earn £100 for their time in helping out with a survey.

I hope someone can help me. I've tried registering on the EeeUsers forum, but the CAPTCHA there is rubbish and won't let me register despite entering it correctly each time.

I'm running the default Xandros Linux on a 901 EeePC. I haven't made any sort of modifications to the system at all. I install updates as they appear, but the past dozen or so haven't installed because of some sort of "dpkg--configure-a" thing it wants me to run, but doing that does absolutely nothing, so I have no idea what the problem there is.

Anyways, that isn't the issue I'm coming here with, just mentioning it in case this lack of being able to update properly can interfere with what I would like to do.

I have Firefox 3.0.4 - the default which my system has upgraded to since I got it in November of last year. Only extensions I've installed are AdBlockPlus and Flashblock (and this was back then, so being as I've had this system for six months it would seem odd if they created a problem now. MediaWrap and QuickPageZoom came preinstalled and are active, Tabscope is deactivated).

In the past few days, I've developed this problem. I've tried the fixes there to no avail.

So I'm getting to the point that I simply want to uninstall Firefox and reinstall it. But I have no clue how I can do that safely without destroying my system (since I've read that installing things on the Eee can be touch and go). I'm usually a Windows user, but I went with Linux for this travel netbook of mine (I've been traveling for the past seven months, and will be continuing to do so for the next year, so this Eee is my primary machine at the moment), but I'm really feeling like I should've just gone with the XP version at this point.

I asked my Linux-using friends for help, and an Ubuntu-using friend suggested these command lines to uninstall and reinstall Firefox, so can any Xandros users confirm that this will work for my Eee? (Or, alternatively, figure out a way to fix this Firefox glitch?)

He said to type:

"sudo apt-get remove firefox-3.0

Then, type in the following lines on the console:

cd ~
sudo rm -R .mozilla

And then reinstall Firefox."

I'm assuming by "reinstall Firefox" that something will pop up then or something?

Thanks for any help!