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Below are posts from December 2007

Asus EEE

Whoa, seriously a bad ass little machine. The config I have is the 1gb ram/8gb hdd model, in white.

First impressions:

ASUS drivers for Windows installer is top notch. Completely automated and trouble-free.
XP is fast…much more s than I expected
Xandros is not too bad…but it is certainly worth your time to change the desktop to ‘advanced mode’
800×600 sucks
I wish my Mac were this small…

Definitely worth trying out if you need a small travel machine.

CompUSA – Gone baby, gone

Wall Street Journal is reporting that CompUSAs’ last 100 stores will be closing.

Article here

What I gather from this article is that Tiger Direct may buy some of the stores for retail locations…which is dumb on their part, considering the slaughter the personal tech market has seen in recent years.

This leaves pretty much just local shops and BestBuy for those ‘gotta have it now’ purchases.

RIP CompUSA.

Mexican telephone and retail magnate Carlos Slim, in a rare defeat, will exit the U.S. consumer electronics market, shutting the last 100 CompUSA Inc. stores after sinking about $2 billion into the …

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