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Sacrificing my EEEPC for a Garmin – EEEPC for sale

eeepc for sale I’ve come to the crazy decision that I need to sacrifice my EEPC in favour of a Garmin Forerunner 405. Why?

  • I’ve got an awesome Vaio that I find myself using more and more at home
  • I’m doing the Dublin marathon this year and I’d like the Garmin to aid in my training

What I found great about the EEPC –

  • It’s very light
  • It plays all media types – great for travelling
  • It’s got Wifi
  • It’s battery life is great considering it’s size
  • It works great as a digital radio hooked up to a hifi

I’m looking for £190 ono excluding delivery (perfect condition with original box and all manuals/cds). That includes a 2GB SD card. I’m putting it on my blog first before ebaying it. I’ve also got an unused Matrox DualHead2Go Digital Edition for sale (£110 ono excl delivery).

Anybody interested?

EEEPC – overall thoughts

Overall – I’m really impressed.

Pros

  1. It’s tiny – meaning very portable
  2. It’s light – under one kilo
  3. It’s fast – Celeron 900MHz with 512MB Ram
  4. It runs Linux – Xandros with a very fast window manager by default
  5. Battery life is good considering the size (3-4 hours)
  6. It’s cheap as hell – I paid about 300Euro
  7. It’s got Wifi and webcam – Skype Video on the go
  8. Hibernate works brilliantly with very fast boot times too

Cons

  1. Keyboard is a little small
  2. It’s doesn’t reconnect to wifi when it comes out of hibernate
  3. The WEP WPA software has bugs – you can’t connect to a network with a key that has numbers or spaces in it
  4. The screen is a little too small for constant use – I reckon the planned 10″ models will be alot better

EEEPC in black

Overall I love and I wouln’t hesitate to recommend it considering the price.