I've a question to ProfJulie about Asus r2h if I may

[pathfinderca]

I am trying to decide if I should get a samsung q1 or asus r2h. I went back to your posts about the pdf files on asus r2h. I've a couple of questions. When you use r2h, how hard or easy is it to surf the web? How do the web contents show on this little thing? I wanted a samsung but read many issues about the screen going awry. Does r2h have any tech issues? I tried google but didn't find a whole lot. Thank you very much in advance.

[DDHarriman]

Hi

I have a R2H since December 2006 (Celeron 900 version) and even if it’s not my main computer it’s an outstanding little machine.

Before answering your questions, and if in the end you go with with it, get the XP tabletpc version not the Vista one. Even with 2 Gigs of ram (that is really easy to make the upgrade contrary to the Samsung) it’s a dog.
With 2 Gigs (I myself have 1,250) it’s really snappy considering the processor and HD.
Also take care as the machine comes with lots of crapwhare - lots of software no one needs - and that makes the machine run like a dog the first time you power it.
You will have to take most of it out.
Help for this and everything you would like to know about it, you can find in the GottaBeMobile Asus Forum (http://www.gottabemobile.com/forum/f...z2ebc7ae271zz7), begin from the older posts, you can even read my personal first experiences with my R2H there.

Surfing the web is perfect, 800*480 is more then enough to do it, and if you are not happy you can upgrade the resolution.

Web content shows perfect, I myself use Ie in full screen, it’s quite gods and be able to rapidly change things with your nail (if no wanting to take the pen out) it’s great!

No problems with the screen.
I know many people prefer the Samsung but let me tell you, the R2H as a hard screen, meaning you can write with the pen resting your hand in the screen without a problem, the samsung is known to be almost impossible to do this without one resting the hand somewhere out of the screen.
If you want you can even turn it into portrait and read you eBooks that - well not it’s a bit heavy to do so (740 grams wit the standard battery) when now I have my Cybook with just 174 grams.
Hey I manage to read PDF magazines in landscape without a problem.

Also you get quite some stuff with it:
Keyboard, mouse, DVD external drive, cables to connect to a VGA big screen - I use it to see Divx movies in my 42 inch plasma TV.

I’m delighted with it and with the 7800 mugen battery I bought for mine I get 6 hours continuous running.

Best regards,

[pathfinderca]

Originally Posted by DDHarriman

Hi

I have a R2H since December 2006 (Celeron 900 version) and even if it’s not my main computer it’s an outstanding little machine.

Before answering your questions, and if in the end you go with with it, get the XP tabletpc version not the Vista one. Even with 2 Gigs of ram (that is really easy to make the upgrade contrary to the Samsung) it’s a dog.
With 2 Gigs (I myself have 1,250) it’s really snappy considering the processor and HD.
Also take care as the machine comes with lots of crapwhare - lots of software no one needs - and that makes the machine run like a dog the first time you power it.
You will have to take most of it out.
Help for this and everything you would like to know about it, you can find in the GottaBeMobile Asus Forum (http://www.gottabemobile.com/forum/f...z2ebc7ae271zz7), begin from the older posts, you can even read my personal first experiences with my R2H there.

Surfing the web is perfect, 800*480 is more then enough to do it, and if you are not happy you can upgrade the resolution.

Web content shows perfect, I myself use Ie in full screen, it’s quite gods and be able to rapidly change things with your nail (if no wanting to take the pen out) it’s great!

No problems with the screen.
I know many people prefer the Samsung but let me tell you, the R2H as a hard screen, meaning you can write with the pen resting your hand in the screen without a problem, the samsung is known to be almost impossible to do this without one resting the hand somewhere out of the screen.
If you want you can even turn it into portrait and read you eBooks that - well not it’s a bit heavy to do so (740 grams wit the standard battery) when now I have my Cybook with just 174 grams.
Hey I manage to read PDF magazines in landscape without a problem.

Also you get quite some stuff with it:
Keyboard, mouse, DVD external drive, cables to connect to a VGA big screen - I use it to see Divx movies in my 42 inch plasma TV.

I’m delighted with it and with the 7800 mugen battery I bought for mine I get 6 hours continuous running.

Best regards,

Thank you very much for such a long and informative reply. That has cleared up quite a few things for me. After I got my Hanlin v2, I realized it doesn't really suit my purpose. I have one more question. When you read pdf or web content, do you need to drag left and right or does everything fit the screen? Also, I haven't seen a r2h with 1g yet. Thanks again for all your help.

[DDHarriman]

Hi

The normal size of the screen is 800*480 (you can have 1024*600 too but it makes the screen much more slow, as its’ not a “natural” screen size for the R2H, and you will be wanting to use the “natural” resolution of the device).

PDF - it depends, what a PDF file does is it opens in a screen format it was build to, but you can zoom it, per example up to the lateral size (800) of the screen.
Then you must see if with that you can read it or not.
You can easily test if this suits you, change the resolution of you computer screen to 800*600 and open the PDF file you will want to read in the device, and see if what you get in the careen it’s enough for you.

HTML - you have websites hard coded with a with size and you have the ones who just try to accommodate the information in the with of the screen they are open on.
The main problem is that the normal format of websites today is 1024*768 (you even get that info somewhere in the main page saying something like “best viewed with 1024*768” something…), and you have 800*600.
I can see easily all of them, per example, if I’m in a forum like this one, sometimes the webpage is too wide, what I do I just move the under slide of the web browser to the right until I can read the messages well… and I loose half of the name of the poster… no problem, if I think I do need to check that I just slide to that.
As I have said before, putting the web browser in full screen gets you a bit of more screen that sometimes makes a big difference.
Once more, you can test this too, just maintain your computer resolution 800*600 and browse some websites you think will be the main ones you will be reading every day or so and see if you feel comfortable with the available screen.

Bets regards,

[DDHarriman]

About the Ram

The Asus R2H has Ram in 2 places, one in the motherboard, and normally with 256 mbytes and you just forget to try to access to it, and another very easy to access in the back of machine (you just need to remove a screw) witch in my machine also did came with 256 mbytes.

So what people have done is to buy a 1 Gig or 2 gig stick, open the back of the R2H and chage it. I have done it with a 1 Gig stick, one does not need to have computer skills to do this and it takes less then 5 minutes to do.

The memory is DD2 533 or 667 (you can use any of it) and a stick of those can be obtain for peanuts nowadays.
In my country (I live in Europe, euro world) I can get a 2 gig stick for 33 euros.
Memory is the best investment one can do!

Final advice: read carefully the posts in the forum I post above, you will get there more then 95% of the answers for the questions one will ever have about the R2H.

Best regards,

[pathfinderca]

Originally Posted by DDHarriman

About the Ram

The Asus R2H has Ram in 2 places, one in the motherboard, and normally with 256 mbytes and you just forget to try to access to it, and another very easy to access in the back of machine (you just need to remove a screw) witch in my machine also did came with 256 mbytes.

So what people have done is to buy a 1 Gig or 2 gig stick, open the back of the R2H and chage it. I have done it with a 1 Gig stick, one does not need to have computer skills to do this and it takes less then 5 minutes to do.

The memory is DD2 533 or 667 (you can use any of it) and a stick of those can be obtain for peanuts nowadays.
In my country (I live in Europe, euro world) I can get a 2 gig stick for 33 euros.
Memory is the best investment one can do!

Final advice: read carefully the posts in the forum I post above, you will get there more then 95% of the answers for the questions one will ever have about the R2H.

Best regards,

I never knew I could change the resolutions on computer to test the web pages and pdf files. I will do that.
The problem with my ereader is when I transfer some web pages and read some pdf files, quite a few times graphs don't really show. Maybe iliad is a better machine. But I figured with that kind of money, a R2H or samsung would be better handle the jobs I have in mind, and hopefully they are more sturdy than an ereader.
Thanks again for all your time and patience. God bless your kind heart.