 | RE:NEW 1A-1 NOT USABLE, ANY KNOW WAY TO CONVERT/UPGRADE OR USE MONITOR , KEYBOARD WITH PC (modified 0 times) | b0ink2k | |
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| Hello yes you can make it like another pc. there are quite a bit of different ways but all are easily doable. what i'm using mine as is a second computer by the couch. so i don't have to walk to the computer room i can check my email and everything else on it. i'm running midori linux on the internal compact flash and then run realvnc to connect to my desktop pc. so basically i have my desktop next to my couch on a nice little unit that is barely noticable. this is by far the best way for newbies to use it. it requires hardly any modification to the ia1. you have to take it apart to reset the bios but that is really easy if you know how to use a screwdriver and a paperclip. installing linux is also easy. all you need is a compact flash reader/writer and at least a 16mb flash card. all the instructions to do this are on this forum. READ. READ. READ. There is a wealth of knowledge on these things on this forum. i got mine a little over a month ago and had it running in less than a few hours. well since this is the setup i believe to be the easiest to use, the other way you could use the linux image itself to do your browsing, chatting, email etc.. it's fully functional.. only thing is that it's in read only mode.. so any settings are usually trashed once you exit. except for maybe some system settings, there's isn't much room in that internal sandisk to save too much stuff. and you would have to know a little about linux to get some of the networking components to automatically work on boot up etc... grab some coffee and sit down and read these forums.. you will find everything you will need to know as i did.. just make sure you buy a good reader/writer as i read some people have had a hard time with some. | |
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