USELESS THOUGHTS x PLAST!C REAL!TY

My laptop has just leveled-up today.

Thanks to my retardedness, I impulsely fork out Php2,550 for a Kingston 2Gb ram this afternoon @ Octagon. I was having a thought of getting the Transcend 2Gb ram but slightly expensive @ Php2,630 but in the end, I got the Kingston memory as I am sucker for cheap things.
After installing the memory, I turned on my laptop but it didn’t boot up. I was about to panic. Then an hour after messing with the hardware, I removed both the 1Gb ram module and found out that the other ram was a Samsung brand which then I found out that it has compatibility issue with Kingston. I was about to lose hope and regret. Good thing that the other ram was the same brand as the one I bought.. There’s no evidence of the system getting faster but at least this will be ready for some memory-hogging-softwares that I want to use in the future.
The Samsung 1Gb ram didn’t go waste as I installed it onto my EEEPC and it worked perfectly.

Damn… I regret having an impulse purchase on my Asus EEEPC 4G 701 UMPC now that a new EEEPC 900 has been released for a whopping Php25,000 with either 12gb or 16gb and has 8.9″ screen with 1024 x 600 resolution and already WinXP. And now that this Acer Aspire One have been introduced (in Japan).. I’m regreting even more… I doubt this will be released here though. More info here.

(Image from Akihabaranews.com)

Finally, made a “mini” review on this coolsome gadget. These pics were taken 2 weeks ago but been lazy to post review.

Anyway, got this coolsome “Toy” some weeks ago during my one-day vacation to Cebu City. Reason why I had to buy this little guy is that it is really useful when traveling without lugging a huge 14″ laptop around. This is just 7″, got it? 7″…

Specs:
[Model Name: Eee PC 4G] [OS: Linux Xandros; WinXp compatible] [Processor: Celeron M 900 Mhz] [Storage: 4G Solid State Drive] [Memory: 512mb] [Other stuff: Wifi, Hi-Definition audio, Stereo speaker, Microphone, Camera, 3x USB Port, etc] [Weight: 0.92kg] [Battery: 4 Cells, 2.8~3.5hrs*]

Now, getting to the point of this review:

The box. It is small at about 10-11in.

Contents inside the box…

Exterior views

7in Eee Pc vs 14.1in Aspire 4710…

Asus could have just made the screen bigger and it would be a sure win…

All in all, the Asus Eee Pc is just so small and really portable.

I apologise for the lame review… it’s just that things that I should have wrote here were suddenly lost.

My new stuff:
OS: Linux Xandros Full Desktop mode
Added program(s): GIMP image editor

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