i gotta tell you, it's the cleanest one i've seen yet. great job !!!

By far the cleanest mod I've seen yet. I wish I had the patience and soldering skills found here.

that its abslutely awesome, a great job.

but my question is... if you want more disk space, why don't you buy a bigger laptop? i mean, each of these 16gb corsair its about 100-150$ (dunno exactly how much), so for the price of the asus epc and the 32gb corsair you could have a bigger pc.

see ya!

Last edited by KaYiN (2007-12-12 9:58:29 am)

KaYiN, why bigger laptop, when this little fella is perfect? Or you meant more expensive 10" laptop with SSD? Well...those are quite expencive.

Great mod. I was just wondering...woudnt be easy to install extra memory into the laptop screen housing? I think i've seen a mod where somebody installed bluetooth inside it. I am sure this little flash memory would fit in. And you dont have to soldier on your motherboard.

Or you meant more expensive 10" laptop with SSD? Well...those are quite expencive.

I mean those 600-800$ laptops with DVR-RW, 14-15 inch screen, 120gb IDE hard drive.... and this stuff.

i have nothing against modding the epc by this way, actually I will buy one to me this next month, but i'm asking myself why spend more money modding the epc when you can buy a "better" one.

PS: I am trying to explain myself in a different language that my native one, so I apologize if i say something wrong or ununderstable.

see ya!

CKEgg, very nice mod.

Since you have two 16gb voyager drives in your eee.  You should try putting them into a software raid-0 configuration to double your write/read speeds.  I would be very interested in seeing your results.  Here is an article that tells you how to get raid-0 up and running with flash drives.  http://www.bioslevel.com/index.php/revi … 1190315496
Also were you able to get both voyager drives to fit in the bay without removing their rubber casings?  I hate the idea of losing the 10 year warranty for the sake of saving space.

People are funny.

Anyhow...somebody that wants to be fully portable needs Eee. but you cannot use Eee for some real work.

So most of the people use two laptops. Like me

Great mod!

I love the placement so you can see the LED indicators through the vent holes.  Are you noticing a problem with cooling though?

But now I'm worried that the SSD will die soon. What's the life on those?

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man you are really really right.

I think that only a few people can understand this, I mean, if you ask someone what he preferes, core2duo and stuff with 1.5h battery, and 15.4 inch lcd or 630 MHz celeron, without dvdr and 7inch lcd but very moddeable and extremly slight, thwy sure answer you the first option.

sure "thwy" will. I myself like a powerful pc. Like the Core2Duo, 2gb ram, 14" widescreen 1.5hr battery Samsung R20 I'm typing this post on. Or perhaps the Core2Quad, overclocked to 3.5ghz, 4gb ram, 32" widescreen mains powered desktop pc i have for the play of games. I'd be prepared to bet 80% or more of people here have other PC's. In fact "thwy" will probably have a similar or larger laptop to my R20.

To people like us, owning more than one PC is not a problem. The market for EEEpc here is for people who regularly want mobile computing but do not want to heft about a several kg, unwieldy, large, mugging risk PC that just barely has the battery life to play a movie all day every day. To "thwm", a device that is small enough to fit in a pocket is useful, hence the ultra micro personal computer market. The EEEpc is marketed as an "ultra mobile" pc - which a 3kg core2 system is not. The EEEpc is not a competitor for these pc's, for the very reasons you suggested. It's a totally different market, and any comparisons between the two are moot and quite frankly irrelevant. However, "thwy" require a larger amount of functions and space, in that ultra mobile pc, than the EEE provides as standard. It is in the ultra mobile market that EEE is placed - and hey, if you can mod, why not? The other UMPC's in the market that come with larger space, are very much more expensive than the EEE, even with mods done, and rarely come up to it's standard of power. i'm not going to get into an off topic slanging match with you in this person's thread about it, if you don't understand why we love the EEE and its possible mods, you won't gain any insight from such a discussion.

EDIT: back on topic, CKEGG, how did you mount the devices so close to the motherboard, and keep them insulated from it to prevent shorts?  Wonder how the components below are doing in terms of temperatures. It's a really nice job though, keep up the good work hehe i'll be joining you and johnx in the ultra modded ultra mobile market as soon as i can get my grubby mitts on a black 8g EEE

Last edited by Skree (2007-12-12 4:04:09 pm)

@ckegg great mod! But your BT module is huge... Also its antenna is covered by the Eee's internal shielding - how is reception?

Last edited by tnkgrl (2007-12-12 4:52:33 pm)

tnkgrl wrote:

@ckegg great mod! But your BT module is huge... Also its antenna is covered by the Eee's internal shielding - how is reception?

It is at bottom side, not upper side. There is no shield protection in bottom side of EEE PC.

Huge? Well more feature, bigger size

Last edited by ckegg (2007-12-12 5:22:49 pm)