Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Feb 2008 11:12 UTC
"The Asus Eee PC has been out for a few months now and while people are still buying them in droves, much of the luster has worn off of the device. During the first few weeks of ownership, it is hard for most people to get over how cheap and portable it is, but, as with anything else, you get used to it. After some time, once you see it as a tool and not an innovation, you can start to fine tune your opinion of the Eee PC and notice which parts of it really bother you and which you have learned to live with."
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Has anyone tried running Eclipse on this thing? I'm assuming there might be a little melting around the edges if it doesn't burst into flame.
Gonna get one when I get my Macbook Pro sold.
Gonna get one when I get my Macbook Pro sold.
I own a 4G eeepc, though I will qualify that I bought it as a gadget and use it as such. It is a nice simple system i can let my niece play with.
I have installed Kubuntu and 1GB of RAM with no swap. I mounted my normal /home and /opt using USB2 and kicked up eclipse 3.3. It took approximately 45-50 seconds to load and another 30-40 seconds or so to build the desktop. I have a somewhat hefty workspace and use a fair number of plugins (j2ee base install plus DLTK, CDE, subversion, Quantum, LDAP, and Spring off the top of my head) so with a more stripped down install it might fare a little better. By comparison the same drive hooked up to my 2.66ghz C2Duo using SATA takes around 10 seconds, maybe a little under. I have never timed it.
Once loaded eclipse was reasonably responsive and definitely usable with one major qualification. The screen size makes the use of views pretty much impossible, you have to maximize the editor to do any real work. Hooked up to an external monitor it should be possible to do work from an eee, though I would not call it fast. Personally for light development on an eee I would go with vi or kate depending on my mood/what I was doing. Eclipse will work but it is hard to use at that screen size.
EDIT: Posted from my eeepc by the way. I like to use it for browsing at night.
Edited 2008-02-12 04:06 UTC
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2007-06-20
Has anyone tried running Eclipse on this thing? I'm assuming there might be a little melting around the edges if it doesn't burst into flame.
Gonna get one when I get my Macbook Pro sold.