Comments on: open, driving a 2nd display via Picasso gfx board http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/ Durable Laptop Batteries Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:48:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Micah Sittig http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/#comment-19802 Micah Sittig Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:04:09 +0000 http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/#comment-19802 ASUS eeePC 4G
strong points: portable, wifi, ethernet, modem, webcam
weak points: small keyboard, no cd/dvd, no hard-disk (4Gb built in)

I’ve had my eye on it for a while (ASUS has come out with 3rd gen eeePCs by now; this is just 1st gen), and we ?? happened to need it for uploading photos and sending lesson plans back to school for my classes. Plus the hospital is right across from ??? so it was too easy not to pass up. Here’s the package I had been pricing on Taobao, which has been consistently falling in price over the past few months:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pNxdy5vR851oLvG3qhQXuTg&hl=en

I picked up the wireless mouse and 8 gig memory card on the spot, the other items I’ll be ordering as we need/can afford them.

]]> By: imago chiaroscuro http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/#comment-19801 imago chiaroscuro Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:11:06 +0000 http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/#comment-19801 Hope Charlotte and Maryann don’t get jealous of the new baby. It is very pretty.
Dad

]]> By: sinosplice http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/#comment-19800 sinosplice Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:15:47 +0000 http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/#comment-19800 Wow, that’s cheap! What model? No DVD-ROM, right?

]]> By: anisittig http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/#comment-19799 anisittig Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:39:01 +0000 http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/09/23/open-driving-a-2nd-display-via-picasso-gfx-board/#comment-19799 Glad you got this – I can’t stop looking at your pictures! Hope you guys are happily settled back at home now.

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