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Posted by BillW50 on April 28, 2009, 10:35 am
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AJL typed on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:23:05 -0700:
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>> AJL typed on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:04:52 -0700:
>>>> But my five EeePCs also refuses to switch without an external
>>>> monitor.
>>> Asus heard your pain Bill. The 1000HD Eee (and probably the 1000
>>> series) has a series of chrome buttons across the top of the
>>> keyboard. The button on the left is marked by a picture of a screen
>>> with an 'X' in it. Guess what it does... ;)
>> Hahaha. Well that is good news.
>> Does it stay off too when you press other keys?
> No, the screen comes back on when you push any key.
Oh that is the same the screen off utilities does.
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> There are 4 chrome "Instant Keys" above the keyboard on the 1000HD.
> The first 2 are 'screen off' and 'screen resolution' and *can't* be
> reassigned (at least not with the Asus software included - it will
> only reassign keys 3 and 4). The funny part is that on the regular
> keyboard Fn + F7 will do exactly the same thing and is also marked
> exactly the same way (screen with an 'X' inside logo). So there are 2
> keys that do exactly the same thing - turn off the screen. I suspect
> that Asus was making so many variations that this just slipped in.
> (The 1000HD to my understanding was a 1000 variation made cheaper by
> no Blue Tooth and camera. Most were sold at Best Buy where I got this
> one).
Very interesting.
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> BTW Fn + F8 switches to external monitor and like yours won't switch
> with no monitor plugged in.
Hmm.
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>> Does the 1000HD have a multimedia keyboard too (Play/Pause
>> for WMP)?
> No, does any Eee have that?
Not that I know of, nor does any netbook that I am aware of. But that
would be a great selling point for me. Although I cheat and I use a
wireless multimedia keyboard a lot.
--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2
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Posted by AJL on April 28, 2009, 1:18 pm
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>AJL typed on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:23:05 -0700:
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>>> Does the 1000HD have a multimedia keyboard too (Play/Pause
>>> for WMP)?
>> No, does any Eee have that?
>Not that I know of, nor does any netbook that I am aware of. But that
>would be a great selling point for me.
Besides being small, the biggest selling point for many of these
netbooks is being cheap. And the very cheap ones eliminate the extras
to achieve that selling point.
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>Although I cheat and I use a wireless multimedia keyboard a lot.
And as you've seen on eeeuser.com there is usually a way to get that
special something your particular netbook doesn't have. For example
did you see the guy with the 700 Eee model who cut a hole in the back
of his screen holder, turned the screen around, and added a touch
screen to make a tablet netbook...
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Posted by AJL on April 28, 2009, 6:07 pm
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>(The 1000HD to my understanding was a 1000 variation made cheaper by
>no Blue Tooth and camera. Most were sold at Best Buy where I got this
>one).
I just left my local Target (Phoenix) and it is now selling the EeePC
netbook 1000HD. Unlike my 1000HD this one *does* have a webcam so with
Asus you can't always tell the features by the model. And (of course)
it's $30 less than I paid...
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Posted by ~misfit~ on April 27, 2009, 8:33 pm
Please log in for more thread options Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
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> ~misfit~ typed on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:07:14 +1200:
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
>>> Adrian C typed on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:22:45 +0100:
>>>> BillW50 wrote:
>>>>> Anybody knows of a screen off utility that only lights up the LCD
>>>>> with a certain key press? As I listen to podcasts a lot and I
>>>>> don't need the screen for long periods. But I do use the keyboard
>>>>> to pause and play when I am leaving the room. And all of them
>>>>> turn on the screen when I do this. My old trick was using an
>>>>> external monitor and just turn it on and off. Although I am not
>>>>> using an external monitor that much anymore. TIA
>>>> Maybe use the laptop specific key combinations to select an
>>>> external monitor? That should send your internal screen black
>>>> unless it's got some ID stuff checking if the external screen
>>>> exists just to give you a 'monitor not found' telling off...
>>> Hi Adrian! Yes my Gateways and EeePC are not fooled by no external
>>> monitor connected. Although surprisingly, on this Gateway it works
>>> if it is plugged into the external. And the external could be
>>> unplugged from the AC too. I never tried it with just a cable not
>>> connected to a monitor.
>> That's a shame Bill. My ThinkPad (R51) will switch to external
>> monitor and turn off the panel even when there's no external monitor
>> connected. (Which might be something to do with it having an S-video
>> output as well as a D-Sub?) I use the option often as I want this
>> excellent IPS panel to last as long as possible, it's one of the main
>> reasons I bought this machine.
>> Cheers,
> Hi Shaun. Does you application windows change size as like when the
> screen resolution changed when you switch to a non-existent external
> monitor? This part really bothers me. As I feel the need to tidy up
> all of the windows.
Hi Bill. No, nothing changes on the laptop screen when I cycle through the
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<Fn> <F7> options. (Laptop only, external only or both.)
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> Also does that IPS panel purple hue in dark areas of the screen bother
> you?
Honestly I can't say it does at all as I've never noticed a purple hue at
all. (And I've *really* looked at the panel, it was the reason I swapped my
old R51 for this one. I swapped the CPU, RAM and HDD into it and sold the
other at a loss, well worth it though IMO.) All I've noticed when doing a
comparitive side-by-side with my R40's 1400x1050 TN panel and the R51's
1400x1050 IPS panel is better, richer colour, ditto for contrast and a
massive increase in viewing angles. In fact, the text on the screen becomes
unreadable from the acute angle long before the panel causes any visibility
problem. It really has a huge viewing angle, almost like a quarter-inch
think CRT. Better as it's matte, no reflection problems.
There's nothing currently on the market that I'd rather have than this
machine. At least Windows based. AFAIK nobody other than Apple is putting
IPS panels into laptops anymore. Also I'm not keen on widescreens on laptops
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so <fingers crossed> I'll be using this beauty for a long time yet. It's a
shame that it ony has a 100MHz (400MHz) FSB though. The R52 has a 133MHz
FSB, DDR2 RAM and the option of faster CPUs (up to 2.1GHz I believe) but
wasn't made with an IPS screen option.
http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=75
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> Well the S-Video out on the Gateways are one thing. But my five EeePCs
> also refuses to switch without an external monitor. The EeePC also
> displays a window what display will be active in a split second. And
> you can toggle through all of the choices. Without an external
> monitor, there are no other choices.
That's a shame. :-(
Cheers,
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Shaun.
"Build a man a fire, and he`ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and
he`ll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett, Jingo.
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Posted by olfart on April 26, 2009, 3:41 pm
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> Anybody knows of a screen off utility that only lights up the LCD with a
> certain key press? As I listen to podcasts a lot and I don't need the
> screen for long periods. But I do use the keyboard to pause and play when
> I am leaving the room. And all of them turn on the screen when I do this.
> My old trick was using an external monitor and just turn it on and off.
> Although I am not using an external monitor that much anymore. TIA
> --
> Bill
> Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2
why not just run the brightness down to min???
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>>>> But my five EeePCs also refuses to switch without an external
>>>> monitor.
>>> Asus heard your pain Bill. The 1000HD Eee (and probably the 1000
>>> series) has a series of chrome buttons across the top of the
>>> keyboard. The button on the left is marked by a picture of a screen
>>> with an 'X' in it. Guess what it does... ;)
>> Hahaha. Well that is good news.
>> Does it stay off too when you press other keys?
> No, the screen comes back on when you push any key.