Dell laptop or Asus EEE?

[Matte]

I've checked what the Asus EEE can do, not very much apparently (8 GB hard disk and 512 MB ram), and for the same price, you can get a much better Dell laptop of normal size. But somehow, like I would have been brainwashed, I feel attracted to the EEE so I would prefer that. But I think that a Dell laptop would be better. Any reasons why I might prefer EEE above normal laptops?
And is it right that I should choose a normal one?

[Destron]

Are you looking to run RF on it, or any of your windows programs?
I think most Eee PCs run Xandros Linux... so unless you're up for fiddling around with WINe alot, then I would stray away from it.

[Matte]

I'm not really planning to put RF on it (I'm more into scripting atm :p). I really like learning these languages at the moment, but I'm afraid that this wont last long. If it runs only Linux, I might stay away from it.

[Destron]

Oh -

Newer models have added the option of Windows XP operating system and traditional hard disk drives.

I guess they do make them with Windows.

[Matte]

ok
I've also seen that you can add another 8 GB, which makes it look alot better. But I'm afraid of the non-playable part of these laptops. Will I use them if I can't play games on them? I really wouldn't know.

EDIT: Oh no, it has 120 GB storage, and 8GB flash module. what's flash memory again? I forgot

[Agentarrow]

If I'm not mistaken Flash memory isn't terribly different in purpose from RAM.
I could be wrong though

[Destron]

Flash memory is a fundamental opposite of RAM.
RAM is volatile, meaning that it will not hold data unless it is constantly powered.
Flash memory, on the other hand, is non-volatile, so it will hold data even after you unplug (for lack of a better word) it.

USB thumb drives, SD cards, and the non-hard-drive-based iPods (e.g. iPod Shuffles and Nanos) all use flash memory.

What's a mystery to me is why they would include both hard drive and flash-based storage. Possibly the hard drive is detachable (e.g. connected by a USB cable or something), and the system files are written to the flash memory. I'm not sure.

[Matte]

Ok.
I guess I made my decision: I'm going for a normal laptop.

Thanks for all the information, though. It really helped me decide.

[Agentarrow]

Flash memory is a fundamental opposite of RAM.
RAM is volatile, meaning that it will not hold data unless it is constantly powered.
Flash memory, on the other hand, is non-volatile, so it will hold data even after you unplug (for lack of a better word) it.

USB thumb drives, SD cards, and the non-hard-drive-based iPods (e.g. iPod Shuffles and Nanos) all use flash memory.

What's a mystery to me is why they would include both hard drive and flash-based storage. Possibly the hard drive is detachable (e.g. connected by a USB cable or something), and the system files are written to the flash memory. I'm not sure.

aah, correct. Flash memory is on this computer, used as a backup, it holds bootup data for if the computer crashes. Mine has an optional feature where it autosaves many of my projects every ten seconds to the flash memory, and if I leave it be for more than ten minutes it autosaves to the hard drive. Can be annoying, which is why I have it off.

[Trougedoor122]

yea, my laptop (dell) has a flash chip in it that is about 10GB, and is used for backup.

[firelord]

the problem is not ram or hard drive space, the problem is screen resolution, check what resolution the screen is, cause for some software there is a minimum resolution..