We’ve seen a lot of EeePC hacks, but this one
takes the cake (currently). Featuring GPS (with antenna), Bluetooth,
internal card reader, additional internal flash drive, 802.11N, FM
transmitter and modem. Here is a run down of all the components and
their costs:
- USB hubs - 11.20 USD
- GPS module - 36.70 USD
- Bluetooth - 5.65 USD
- SDHC card reader - 6.45 USD
- Adata SDHC 8 GB - 74.50 USD
- Corsair VoyagerGT 4 GB USB drive - 90.94 USD
- Switch + Prototypingboards - 2.66 + 30.10 USD
- Intel Wireless adapter - 62.69 USD
- Airplay FM transmitter - 14.98 USD
- Conexant Modem - 11.89 USD
- Crucial 2 GB DDR2 module - 106.62 USD
The practicality of these hacks is a little questionable, as it did
cost the hacker an additional $454.38 on top of the $399 EeePC ticket
price. However it serves as a pretty great proof of concept as to just
how expandable to EeePC actually is.
Read[Via EeeHackers]
January 19th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Nice, too bad you chose not to load a HQ image of the complete computer (instead of the tiny lame one)…
January 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Andrew. This isn’t exactly high quality by any means, but it is better than the squished picture included in the article:
http://clumpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/eee-overview-complete.jpg
January 19th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Still cheaper than a MacBook Air! I’d like to see people justify the cost of that thing against this beast…
January 19th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
great info, i found another blog where they have extra hacking info, but ip wise., http://www.opentopix.com/topic/gadgets/how-to-hack-gps-bluetooth
January 19th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Save $12 and take the modem out. But regardless of that, pretty intense little EEE PC there. I do plan on getting one but dunno if I’ve got the balls to hack all the extra stuff into it.
How difficult was this overall modification?
January 19th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Spectacular, Great work!
That is something to be proud of.
January 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
nice job. a tutorial would be even nicer:)))
January 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Wow, that is a tremendous amount of skill demonstrated in electrical engineering there! Hats off to you. I would estimate many thousand dollars worth of skill and labor. Well done! And it does show that this PC is MUCH MUCH more expandable than the typical mac.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
“Hermann Strijewski Says:
January 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Wow, that is a tremendous amount of skill demonstrated in electrical engineering there! Hats off to you. I would estimate many thousand dollars worth of skill and labor. Well done! And it does show that this PC is MUCH MUCH more expandable than the typical mac.”
Maybe you didn’t notice all the soldered wires? It’s not like this EEE pc came with card slots for all this stuff. Maybe you also weren’t aware that an intel Mac is just a fancy PC?
January 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Dude you got ripped on your parts.
January 19th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
but look how thick it is
=)
January 19th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
For those of you who haven’t noticed, there is a link to the original source in the article. Look at http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades for more details.
RTFA
January 19th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
CLOVER FIELD ROCKS!!
January 20th, 2008 at 2:10 am
@’Ganja God’. It’s ‘Cloverfield’. One word. You off-topic, illiterate moron.
January 20th, 2008 at 2:40 am
I don’t get it……
January 20th, 2008 at 3:37 am
Devin wrote : Still cheaper than a MacBook Air! I’d like to see people justify the cost of that thing against this beast… <- how about such cool things as looks, a screen that you can actually see, better battery life (i really think that these hacks really drain that tiny batter) and ofcourse, OS X and that you can use it on a MBA
January 20th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Why not just get a Kohjinsha SH8? It is the same size and about the same price. It has all the stuff already built in it, a faster processor, 120GB HDD, higher resolution screen and it becomes a tablet. Just my 2 cents.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:27 am
@ Stephen
Just admit the air is an overpriced under specced POS (and you are a mac fanboi). Sometting looking nice isnt the only justification to buying it when it costs that much.
“Check ouy my new ford focus - it costs £40,00, has no steering wheel, wooden seats and a 10hp engine BUT IT LOOKS NICE AND HAS A LARGE WINDOW TO SEE OUT OF.”
January 20th, 2008 at 6:39 am
@ Fatman
Thats not the point of what Stephen was saying the MBA looks good and is functional! as he says i bet it has to be constantly recharged or plugged into mains which last time i checked makes this EeePC less portable and on the whole useless as a notebook!
Also why would you buy a EeePC and knowing its not got the right spec and then spend time and money customising it when there are various alternatives Mac and PC that would do the job with less effort and in some cases less money!
January 20th, 2008 at 6:43 am
yall some nerdy fags…..
January 20th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Battery lifetime with all the enhancements would be interesting. I don’t know if its on the original link, since the site is obviously hammered down atm.
January 20th, 2008 at 6:50 am
now mod me a car battery onto that puppy so i can run all the new components!
January 20th, 2008 at 8:37 am
The Kohjinsha SH8 costs about $2000.
The Macbook Air starts at $1700
The Dell XPS M1330 is $1400
Asus Eee PC is $300…for this mod, add about $200 worth of parts.
Nokia N800 is $250.
I guess it depends on your disposable income on what is best for you.
January 20th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Touchscreen’s missing…
January 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Mother!!!
That’s a serious amount of work, pure genius though!
Don’t worry about these guy’s comments, nokia etc, that is such a sweet little piece of work, impressed the heck out of me. the planning and research you must have gone thru to do this not to mention the work really has paid off.
Well done!!!
January 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Wow, that’s cool! If someone wrote up instructions I might try it!
January 20th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Oh, never mind, I just found the wiki with the instructions. Yay!
January 20th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Ummm Battery life????
January 20th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Soldering in the kitchen sink would be the ultimate do-all end-all mod, if not for the fact that you sacrifice heavily on portability.
January 20th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
With all that hacks,does it still fit in the ordinary Asus Eee PC casing?
January 21st, 2008 at 2:55 am
“Total 454.38 USD - including shipping to Europe. If you say I could get a much better, powerful, plain old, regular laptop for the same money, I say: What’s the fun in that?”
January 21st, 2008 at 5:00 am
So, total is $850.. for something that still costs roughly 1250 giver or take.. most modern laptops still use HARD DRIVES, but so what.. now that you’ve done this. Asus can thank you by including the best of what you’ve done in their new version for about $100-150 more than the $399 pricetag.. more or less depending upon where laptop memory price are at that time.
January 21st, 2008 at 6:10 am
I bet somebody in ASUS is kicking themseves that they didn’t release a ‘Super Eee’ ( or Wow-Eeeeeeeee ?) before the enterprising folks here built one. I’m sure there’s a market there for those who aren’t as skilled with the circuit diagrams and soldering iron ……hint.
January 21st, 2008 at 10:15 am
ASUS is not kicking themselves over these mods. ASUS could have included any USB device ever inside the laptop, they could have included a 60 gb SSD disk in it. It would have fit. They didnt to keep the price low. No one wants to buy an expensive low end pc…
January 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
……….but THEY could have integrated these features in from the start and bought the components at mass-produced wholesale prices direct from the manufacturer! It then WOULDN’T have cost as much! One-offs are notoriously expensive but build thousands and prices per unit tumble…….
January 21st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Seems like it would have no moving parts. It may be a “low end” laptop in the USA but most people won’t ever use the entire capabilites of their laptop, so all in all regardless of brand or model, nice work!!!!!
January 21st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
This is so cool! How about the power heart? Cool enough?
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:19 am
Honestly, it remind me to terminator robot
Can we call it eeenator?
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:59 am
Damn, teach it to make a decent cuppa & I’ll have 5…
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hello,
Im a brazilian journalist from Brazilian lead portal, and I was interested in publish a picture of EEE PC hack by US$ 453 with gps, bluetooth and all stuff
May I?
January 28th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Battery life?
January 31st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Thanks for sharing
February 7th, 2008 at 4:02 am
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
April 16th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
This eee pc hacking is getting really popular. I’ve seen this company selling them, fully hacked with windows XP and a heatsink at http://www.blog.wintercs.com. It’s crazy what these little machines can do, and they’re not even expensive!
May 11th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Amazing stuff…. I would love to have 1 of that machine… this article is really intersting .. thanks
May 16th, 2008 at 4:23 am
It does not cost much to become owner of this machine…however i dont think this product is of high quality..thanks for the great article.
May 25th, 2008 at 8:29 am
thankss so muchss
June 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Thanks Very Good
June 29th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Wow, that’s cool! If someone wrote up instructions I might try it!
June 30th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Soldering in the kitchen sink would be the ultimate do-all end-all mod, if not for the fact that you sacrifice heavily on portability.
July 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.
July 5th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Soldering in the kitchen sink would be the ultimate do-all end-all mod, if not for the fact that you sacrifice heavily on portability.s
July 9th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Thanks for sharing
July 9th, 2008 at 3:48 am
thanks you. sites
July 9th, 2008 at 3:48 am
thanks youdd
July 15th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Great gadget, can’t wait to make one !!
Good work-
Justin
July 15th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Thanks man!
July 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Great price for such a powerful machine.
MJ
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Great stuff.
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
really good things. thanks.