Reality Factory

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Destron wrote: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.

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

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..