I caught an interesting article over at Forbes early this morning; a brief interview with Asustek CEO and Chairman Jonny Shih. Jonny shared a few tidbits about the Asus EEE PC that might boost the level of attraction for some mobile device users: "the 2- to 8-gigabyte memory cards can be upgraded to 32 gigabytes and the RAM from 256 megabyte to 1 gigabyte by simply taking out two screws on the back of the machine, something that Shen demonstrates but isn’t included in the marketing materials. Asustek is also linking with mobile telecom companies to provide a 3g attachment, so users can be connected when Wi-Fi isn’t available."
I’ve had some e-mail conversation with my friend Brad Linder (who has a great two-part overview of his new EEE over and Download Squad) and he mentioned that the memory can be boosted to 2 GB. Unfortunately, it’s only in Windows that the full 2 GB is recognized; under the Xandros Linux disto, only a gig is seen. With talk of swappable flash storage and WWAN add-ons, the EEE is looking a little more expandable than originally thought.
Although these two kids probably have more Linux experience than I do, you can rest assured I’ll be trying to get my AirCard 875U modem working on it for some HSDPA goodness. More to follow when the unit arrives on Monday. Meanwhile, parts one and two of Brad’s overview with video should tide you over. Brad also has a nice tutorial to get full desktop mode on the EEE hosted on his personal site. I’ll be bookmarking that for sure.
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