I’ve gone through a bunch of crap with my HDD install, due to poor planning. The actual replacement is very straight-forward, but I was in such a hurry to get it in, I didn’t properly prepare. Hopefully this will help you avoid making the same mistakes. First: I made the mistake of hooking it up [...]

The EeePC is Asus’s ultraportable, supercheap ($300 for the base model), laptop. It’s basically an email and web machine. It’s essentially supposed to fill the niche between something like a PocketPC or Nokia’s internet tablet and a “real” laptop, with it’s added cost and bulk. Lacking both a hard drive and an optical drive, it [...]