The 'I got my Eee PC' thread

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Mine just arrived! Black, from eBuyer.

First impressions are very positive indeed... playing with the default setup at the moment, and am extremely impressed with how intuitive the standard OS is. Also impressed that I am touch typing this on the lil keyboard!

Who else got theirs? ;)

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[Guest Monolithix]

its here! 1GB RAM installed fine, warranty intact. Word to the wise though, don't enable fast boot in the bios, mine stopped picking up the 1GB stick, displaying the post screen and lost the battery! Disabled it and all is good again though ;)

Only problem is getting XP installer to boot off a usb stick :(

(Posted from my EEE PC!)

[Guest J273]

I got mine yesterday :(

I was'nt too impressed with ebuyers packaging though ;)

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

My thoughts exactly (as I said in my unboxing!)

Are their margins that slim?

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[Guest Monolithix]

I'd say so...

[Guest leonxki]

Oh my what a few days it has been. I stuck with shop.bt.com and decided to be patient (thats after mono and P abandonded me). So I get a despatched email + an Amtrak UK tracking number on weds evening. I track, its collected and shipped down to South from Bolton.

In the morn, thurs, I track (bearing in mind that I was full of hope after BT email said it was a next day delivery) status = 'With Delivery Driver'. I think, all cool he'll be here...its Fri morning and aint got a thing.

Ordered two fast memory sticks and 8GB SHDC from BMC, no word either:P (kiddin)

[Guest leonxki]

Wooooohoooo! I got mine! ;) At last...

Gave-up on waiting attended lectures, came back in the middle of the day, all had arrived. Spent alota time trying to instal a custom nlite-d version of xp, didnt work so well, so went winflpwards.

Happy, happy, happy.

shop.bt.com packed it well I must say. BIG sturdy box.

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Xandros FTW ;)

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[Guest Rick Bennett]

i just got one mine delivered today, just in time for my birthday ;)

[Guest J273]

finally had a play with mine....wow is very nice.Perfect replacment for my nokia 770.

Slightly gutted though ive got one stuck dead pixel ;)

Anyone else got a dead/stuck pixel?

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Mono has a stuck pixel on his too...

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[Guest]

Woo Hoo!

Black EEE PC just arrived from eBay today! 1st impressions (before turning it on), I'm actually impressed by the build quality, didn't think it would be as solid as it is.

I also don't see the keyboard being a problem, although considering I'm used to thumb typing on a qwerty SP, the EEE keyboard should be no problem!

[Guest Phil Lee]

Mine arrived this morning. Still getting used to Unix again. I think I may well install XP on it.

Edited November 30, 2007 by Phil Lee

[Guest kadave]

ok...so...first of all i would like to say that I am totally pumped that my EEE was delivered yesterday! However, I was not there :(! I waited ALL DAY for the delivery man to show up, but i knew i had to leave to go on a business trip. I checked the UPS tracking site and it was delivered an hour after i left! I guess thats how things sometimes work. CANT WAIT TO GET HOME!

[Guest dt11]

Hi

Got mine. Very nice indeed.

I got mine from http://www.advancetec.co.uk/. Sales guy on the phone said they have plenty in stock of white type.

dt11 :(

[Guest Monolithix]

Congrats! This thread has been a little quiet since the stock shortages kicked in :(