Free Computer Consultant ………. Daily Insights

Everyone loves the ASUS Eee PC; but everyone has probably wished at one point that it had a DVD drive. External USB DVD drives can be bulky, cumbersome, and be one more thing to plug into a surge protector.

I have found the perfect USB DVD drive to use as a companion to the Asus Eee PC.

It’s the Samsung Slim Super Writer.

Features:

1. Slim – ie, small, lightweight
2. Requires only a USB cable to the Asus Eee PC. No Power Adapter Required!
3. Inexpensive
4. 8x DVD +/- RW

The Samsung Slim Super Writer doesn’t draw excessive power either. We have used it to watch a 2 hour DVD movie on the Eee and had battery to spare.

Want to upgrade the lousy Windows XP Home Edition to XP Professional? How about just go Ubuntu? Then this is the drive you want.

You can pick it up here at Newegg.com

I just got off the phone with a client who is vacationing, but took the laptop along to get some work done and access his office workstation.

Normally, he connects using a secure IPSec VPN to the Fortinet Fortigate 60 firewall at his office. This is one of my favorite ways of connecting from remote locations and has served us well for many years.

But, (there’s always a but), his laptop seems to be malfunctioning this morning, so he called me.

“My laptop isn’t working, will that GoToMyPC we loaded last week work from the computer in the business center at the hotel?”, he asked.

Absolutely, was my reply. All he needed was to be reminded of the password – which was stored on the laptop. Fortunately I had documented that and was able to give it to him.

That’s the real beauty of remote control software like GoToMyPC. It will work from any normally adjusted Windows computer – it even works from a PDA or Cell phone with Windows Mobile!

GoToMyPC has a 30 day free trial, which is what my client mentioned above is using. They do require a credit card, but you WILL NOT BE CHARGED if you cancel in 30 days.

If you have that kind of a need to access your computer remotely, give GoToMyPC’s free trial a try.

The original Asus Eee PC was spectacular hit. Most people, however, wanted more power, longer battery life and a larger solid state storage drive. Many wanted to install Windows besides.

Now it’s here! The ultimate in an ultra portable PC.

The new Asus Eee 901 PC, which comes in white or ebony, has all of that. The Asus Eee 901 is based on the new Intel Atom CPU, has 1GB RAM, 802.11n wireless, bluetooth, 10/100 lan, webcam, 12GB SSD drive, 8.9″ (1024 x 600) WSVGA display, hi-def speakers and mic, MMC/SD slot and it only weighs 2.4 pounds.

This machine is packed full of features and has Windows XP Home preinstalled. Thanks to the new Intel Atom architecture it can boast a battery life of 4 – 8 hours instead of the typical 3 hours of the original Eee PC.

When the first Eee PC debuted I thought it was just a bunch of hype and that it would die down. It never did. In fact, entire online communities sprung up around the Eee PC and what you could do with it.

Now with the 901 version of the Eee, Asus has added about every feature that users hungered for in the first edition.

You won’t find much competition on the price, it’s pretty set at $599. What you will be looking for is availability.

One of my favorite vendor’s is Buy.com, they are offering the Eee PC 901 with free shipping – when in stock! You can place your order and they will ship it as soon as it’s in.

Asus Eee 901 PC – ebony

I will tell anyone who will listen. Consumers want broadband with more bandwidth. DSL in the United States, with some exceptions, is falling behind. Those who think selling “up to 1 Mbps”, which usually averages only half that, for $49.95 per month are just waiting for a viable competitor to take away their business.

There are more viable competitors everyday. Europe and Asia get it. Some parts of the US get it. The rest don’t.

5 mln Europeans to connect to broadband via mobile in 2007 by ZDNet’s ZDNet Research — European mobile broadband market will reach 5 mln connections at the end of in 2007. Austria and Sweden are leading the way with hundreds of thousands of consumers signed up to affordable high-speed Turbo 3G network services delivering data rates up to 7 Mbps, Berg Insight says. The total value of the European mobile broadband [...]