Comments on: Video: Splashtop - Instant-on OS/Web experience

By: sergei

sergei — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:25:42 +0000

Hey Lalo, it should play Youtube videos - sorry it does not. You may want to check for updated software for your laptop model through ASUS forums (http://vip.asus.com/forum). If they have it, you will need to download and install the update in Windows.

By: Lalo Marquez

Lalo Marquez — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:31:03 +0000

My Asus laptop came with its own version of Splashtop installed, Express Gate, and although its almost functional, it doesn’t play videos in Youtube. I can watch videos on most other sites, like DailyMotion, but not Youtube. Just to let you know its limitaitions.

By: LR

LR — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:01:47 +0000

But what aboit apps?
There is more to using a computer than surfing the net?
What if i want to use Firefox and it’s extension as my browser?
What if I want to install the Gimp?
Of what if Windows users want to install games like Cubis 2, Spore,etc?

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:31:43 +0000

Woo hoo! I would give this technology the Nobel over the mini-hard drive. I see just one step between this and no need for an OS at all. Many of my clients simply don’t need an OS especially with Web 2.O

Congrats Asus and Splashtop!

By: sol

sol — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:42:59 +0000

Hey Doug (#4) - I appreciate your commentary, however, we believe that you shouldn’t have to put your computer in a “mode” to turn it off. We think computers should work like every other appliance and you should be able to turn it off and on quickly. Most people leave their computer on 24/7. What a waste!

By: Barbidur

Barbidur — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:48:24 +0000

Long awaited and very nice project indeed !
Should we hope for a mail client in the fast boot (thunderbird??) (even if it might be complex to deal with the content itself .. in what filesystem and so on…
Another mighty functionnality would be to virtualize the choosen OS to be booted (a la VMWare…) allowing simultaneous full linux (on the same EXT partition as splashtop ?) , a windows, and even the unallowed osx
regards.

By: syrus

syrus — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:25:31 +0000

Looks like re branded firefox which is good, Hope u put in flash and java plugins or the browser is useless to most people. you should use a more open IM like pidgin or kopote, that has more support for more services (I.E. aol yahoo msn and the like ) being able to save to a usb or flash would be good to, access to the files on the hard drive would be a good idea to. All in all seems like a good idea, i could see it being used more on laptop to save power, done rambling…

By: Munckfish.net » RM Linux laptop for schools

Munckfish.net » RM Linux laptop for schools — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:43:47 +0000

[...] pressing ‘Power On’. The Splashtop site has a decent FAQ, and even a blog-post with a YouTube vid demostrating the OS. I’m not sure this is definitely the exact technologies the RM machine is using because [...]

By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:30:39 +0000

Sounds great, the problem is adoption, you see something you want but have to wait for the big names to start building it in, either that or build your own pc. I prefer my laptops though and as yet you cant just go build one of those ya self. Looking forward to playing with this, any chance of a flash demo so we can see what to expect? I like the idea of havinig access to the USB pen drives so that you can surf the web but put anything of interest onto the pen drive

By: taxiwriter

taxiwriter — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:24:15 +0000

Hopefully it will consume less energy compared to a normal computer. I would prever a Firefox-Computer. For 90 % of my work I use the internet. What I would need more is to store some data on an USB-Stick. Maybe the design of the good old commodore C64 will return - a “thinking” keyboard with a standard-interface like USB, onboard wireless and some more RAM..