Japanese DIYer shows ASUS how not to make an Eee Tablet PC
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 3rd 2009 12:24PM
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No, shoving a 360 in a PS3 case, now that's worth it!
you can polish a terd but at the end of the day its still a turd
Nope, it's a terd.
No way, the thing has enough reliability issues when its in its own shell!
isnt it spelt turd?
nerd.
The foil is to repel those pesky aliens from invading.
This guy could've not upgraded the eee then he wouldve saved the $128, and the cost of a new pair of eyes.
Not to mention preventing the government from controlling it!
Oh yeah, that's hot.
The whole tablet PC thing is practicaly in limbo - if not, just plain dead.
I bought a Lenovo X60 2 years ago. Even though it has tablet functionality, I found it much easier to simply use it as a laptop since it had a 7 hour battery and a keyboard large enough for my big hands to type on.
I used it to draw, very seldomly, when i was in Physics lab. Drawing on it was ok, but writing notes was sloppy - it was easier to type.
Thus far, the closest we've gotten to a real, innovative tablet pc, is the ipod touch/iphone. If Apple made the thing bigger and added a stylus, its OS as well as its portability would definitely set new trends in Tablet computing.
I was agreeing with you right up until the last paragraph... then you ruined it.
I know many artists and graphic designers that love their tablets.
I agree with Pheonix. Your first two statements make sense but your third doesn't. Honestly though, how is the iPhone/iPod Touch closest thing to an innovative tablet. You can't draw with it or write notes due to absence of the stylus and therefore lack of note making capabilities which compared to WinMo(I'm talking VS Notepad). All you can do is finger around with it(No, no, not that) and it really is too restricted for even being categorized tablet.
The best bang for the buck tablets are the new Compaq/Hp tablets. Look them up.
Sorry, I was in a hurry while writing my previous reply, therefore the grammatical mistakes.
At least it's recyclable.
he's resourceful, but that just won't cut it. he could've just made the screen turn 180 degrees and then fold down.... much easier
Mount it in your desk or table.
Drool...
This is clearly a BlackBerry knock-off.
BlackBerry clearly got all of their ideas from Apple, so this is pretty much an Apple knockoff, right?
/sarcasm
It's more than YOU did.
The touch panel "has failed to destroy it modified" ...lol
I think you could make a tablet work well if you put tracing paper on it and turned the brightness up to 11. Then you would have a rough surface to use.
You just tried to make an "it goes to 11" joke, didn't you?
sooo....he made it an unfoldable laptop?
Perhaps a giant wanted a blackberry?
Worth it?
- Probably not in this form factor.
But the real question is:
Can it run crysis?
No, it can't.
maybe you mount it flush on a counter top/table? looks like there's a flange around the unit to mount it? Still a pretty lame idea, and the monitor is off center from the key board.
did he use that special non stick foil?
It's aluminum tape, aka. scrim tape, used for sealing HVAC duct. Its strong stuff, lasts for years if squeegeed down properly. so I hardly think that its "inexplicable". He had some, or got some, and used it to tape it together. Granted it looks like crap, but things that get taped together do. As does strider_mt2k, I also think that at least he tried, and he may do better on the next go around. Everybody has to learn, *he's trying*, who else has the balls to do this to their Eee? None of you critics. STHU.
Uhm yeah right..
The foil started life as blade tape to repair helo blades , strong and lasting stuff .
A good choice for the job .
I'd like to live near this guy just to visit and see what he was up to .
I'd even donate resorces towards his efforts .
Good show mate !
P.S. my e-mail address of @yahoo.com.au is a valid address !!
Well, was it worth it to him? We dunno.
I looked into doing something kinda like this to an Acer Aspire One. I was trying to build my own bigger/better/faster net-tablet device to replace my Nokia N800. Also considered mounting a beagleboard with an touchscreen in a hacked up picture frame (failed due to lack of LVDS interface on beagleboard..)
In the end, I stumbled upon and bought an Gigabyte M912M. Highly recommend it for anyone wanting to go the Atom based convertible tablet route. It's also got bluetooth, pci express 34 slot, sd reader, standard 2.5in laptop sata built-in. Only changes I had to make were expanding the memory to 2gb and replacing the Atheros based mini-pcie wifi card for an Intel based one.
You're probably no longer looking for an Eee mod, but FYI:
There's a sorta-kit out there called the Aeeeris, for ripping the keyboard out of an Eee 700/701/702, (and I think a 900 version is coming soon, but not sure) and converting it to a pure tablet. Since it's very much a hack-your-own (you get just the hard part, a custom-molded top panel), it might not be too hard to hack up a slide-out keyboard, at the cost of some thickness.
I've looked at it, but not real interested. I think I prefer the clamshell over slide-out, and my N800 is not far behind my 701 in performance, so I've no interest in converting it to tablet-only.
What's the battery life like on that M912M, anyway?
in response to Benson..
M912M battery life is pretty good.. 4-cell 4500mAh.. Last over 3hrs as long as bluetooth and wifi are shut off. On my last plane flight, I watched two 1-hour, HD episodes of Teriminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles and still had 42% battery left. I could probably gain some more if I swap the 160gb drive out for an SSD. But I'm definitely happy with it.
Is it worth it? Well probably not for me, but for him I bet it was. Sorry Engadget we all can't be Johnathan Ive. In all seriousness, there isn't a netbook tablet out there and this guy saw that and spent some time and created his own. That's what hacking is all about, regardless of whether the outcome was pretty or not. Geez you guys should know that, or if you don't read some of hackaday.com for a while.