Have you sold laptops before?

Cause i did before, and yes, their margins are something as low as RM50 for the really low end ones, while for higher ends like sony perhpas up to RM200.

And the reason why their price and suddenly drop alot, is because the distributors set the prices. Rarely retailers keep huge stock of notebooks, rather the distributors are the one with lots of stock. So to receive new models from overseas, they'll push the old stocks by dropping the price of the notebook. Of course the prices for retailers will also drop accordingly.

So the culprits are definately distributors and not retailers. Its pretty well known that the computer parts, notebooks and most gadgetries retailing are surviving on razor thin margins. Its the peripherals and add ons for most gadgets that usually have huge margins. Most leather pouches or the like are retailing for 50-80% margin.

Acrording to the manuals, press the start button and hit the escape button, then you have 3 modes of booting to select , one of them is through usb drive with an optical drive.

I think you have to press f2 after hitting the on button to go to bios. You could change the booting priority here.

Not really try it out yet.

Any EEEPC 900 30GB Hdd user here? I would like to recommend you guys to replace the hdd.

As we all know, eeepc 900 30GB hdd is damn slow due to the usage of 1.8" HDD and consume a lot of energy. But today, i bought 32GB Samsung 1.8" SSD. According to datasheet, this samsung ssd can read up to 57MB/s and write up to 38MB/s compare to normal 1.8" HDD read speed around 30MB/s and 20MB/s write speed. Even SSD installed inside eeepc900 and eeepc 901 ssd version can achieve 40MB/s read speed and 20MB/s write speed only.

Below is my old hdd that has been replaced by the ssd drive



Samsung SSD Drive



Back side of the SSD Drive




As expected, this SSD is super fast. I manage to install windows XP in 12 minutes only. Boot time is around 30 seconds.
I also did some benchmark.

Old 30GB HDD



New 32GB Samsung SSD



As u can see. The gap is very high. Average speed 2.5x better. Also, access rate improved significantly. Only 0.3ms compare to 33.7 ms. I'm very satisfied with this SSD drive. Can notice hugh difference. I havent test the battery life yet. But i'm sure the battery life also increase as well.

If you want to buy this ssd, can buy from this forumer
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=780352&hl=ssd

This post has been edited by ilham87: Sep 7 2008, 10:23 PM

TQ! the information is useful for me!

for the memory ram, the seller here informed that i better keep the 1gb ram which come with my 1000h because in case i need to claim for waranty next time, i can still put the ram back...its that true??? at first i was thinking to exchange the ram with him and top up a bit, but after hearing this, i buy the ram from other shop.

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Added on September 7, 2008, 10:37 pmi tried google chrome and safari.. the loading is faster than ie and firefox..and simple interface! not bad! i think i will change to use that 2 for surfing

This post has been edited by Hico: Sep 7 2008, 10:37 PM

waa. manyak duit. why take ssd 32gb? why not install bigger memory hdd?

because ssd is much faster compare to 1.8 hdd and consume less energy. besides, 1.8" hdd hard to find. cheapest i can find is 15gb at thundermatch lowyat rm250. so i think better i just take the ssd drive.

What is the depth of the SSD? Isit 5mm or 8mm?

1000h users having the advantages of keeping more softwares in the hdd.

I use firefox 3 for internet banking, google chrome for casual surfing.

Upgrading of rams would not void the warranty of eee pc. It is an "acceptable" upgrade. Correct me if i am wrong.

This post has been edited by SKY 1809: Sep 7 2008, 11:17 PM

according to datasheet, the depth is 5mm

rm470 for hdd upgrade...

that is 25% of the laptop price...

its too xpensive upgrade for a 'low-end' laptop

hi everyone...
my 3years4mnths old ibm t43 had just died from mobo failure, after reading few pages in this thread, it looks encouraging for me to get an eeepc
may i know currently the local retailers sell only the winxp version, or they sell both linux xandros and winxp platform eeepc here ? Before this i have read a few reviews online, and the linux eeepc comes with SSD looks more relishing to me... i do not need a large harddisk since i have never use over 65% of my old 80GB HDD capacity

Yes. I agree with you. Quite expensive. But worth the price. I just compare with my friends eeepc 901 and 1000H. Mine is much much faster and more responsive.

how much did the 32GB SSD cost ? RM470?

yes. rm470.

is it compatible with 901?? seems cant find where to put it yet...nice price there for an ssd...but i read some at the eeepc forum that the C: will still be in the 4GB after changing the 8GB to what ever size u want..have to do some moding on the ssd 2 ssd for it to be on C:...

yes. very nice price for a 32gb ssd because in us they are still selling at 300-500 usd for 32gb ssd drive. Most of the eeepc901 has zif socket. but have to sacrifice your 2nd sdd so that the new 1.8" ssd can fit in. Not really moding. just change the bios setting to disable the internal ssd first. after finish installing windows, then enable it back.

ASUS 1000H
can i add/replace more ram for this model?

This post has been edited by chickenducksoup: Sep 8 2008, 08:37 AM

1000h only got 1 ram slot..the max you can put is 2gb

is 900's ram also upgradeable?

yes. but only got 1 slot also. you have to take out the old ram first.