Hacked Asus Eee PC Commands A Hefty Price Tag
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Over at eBay there is a hacked Asus Eee PC which according to the seller is loaded with the following features:
The base model is the Asus Eee PC 8GB white laptop. I hack The Asus Eee PC’s and other hardware professionally, I have a killer job! Well I hacked this Asus 8GB white Eee PC so it now comes with the following:
8gb solid state drive
32gb patriot xt drive
2gb RAM
Intel Wi-Fi A/B/G/N upgraded card
GPS with Sirff III
7″ LCD with touch screen
Air Play installed so you can transmit all of your sound to an FM radio
Custom copper heatsink installed because it’s overclocked
bluetooth adapter
2 usb hubs so all the USB devices can hook up to the Eee PC
web cam
speakers
microphone
3 USB ports
one external VGA port so you can hook up an external monitor
Windows XP Professional SP3 With all the drivers installed and tested
Screen resolution is set a 1024×768 with the hacked Video DriverAmazingly enough I managed to fit all thin inside this little laptop and it weighs less that 3.5 pounds!
Best of all data loss is almost null and void with the (Solid State Drive) SSD. Having no moving parts, the SSD stores and retrieves data faster and safer than normal a Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Normal HDD’s have two motors, one spins up the platters that hold your data and one moves arms with read/write heads that float on air less than a human hairs thickness from the data. With your valuable data spinning at 7200 RPM or faster one little bump could smash those floating heads into the platters and cause data loss. The SSD again has no moving parts, therefore can overstep this problem with HDD’s as well as dramatically increasing data transfer rates.
At 22 watts of electricity consumption, you could call this a green, environmentally friendly laptop.
Priced at $1499 and a $25 shipping fee, this little laptop leaves nothing to be desired. But the big question remains. Is this worth the price tag?
What do you think? Would you buy a unit in this price range?
Comments welcome.
4 Comments
Denny
May 27th, 2008
at 8:48am
—– NO - COME - PREN - DAY - .
Gnimsh
May 27th, 2008
at 10:11am
I don’t think so. While I was initially planning on getting an Eee pc, and while I would also have fun modding it, the basic point is that its small and cheap. Sure this adds more functionality, but if all you want it for is something small, while your main laptop/desktop can do everything the modded version can do, why spend so much more?
Ron Schenone
May 27th, 2008
at 11:19am
It seems kind of expensive.
Richard Richard
May 28th, 2008
at 11:26am
No way, man. I understand you have to be rewarded for the hard work and for the stuff you put in, but $1499 seems really too much to me for such a thing.
After all, it is a quasi-notebook with limited capabilities, no matter how many hardware you are able to fit in, you still are limited by a Celeron 900 and a tiny display…