My kids have one of these each, and I was thinking of borrowing one to use for tuning. They have the standard xandros linux build on.
I was also thinking of getting one and having it permanently hooked up in the car and keeping it in the glove box, then I could just take it out whenever I wanted to log or tune.
I believe this machine would have no problem with the resource requirements of any of the software we use for tuning. However, I looked on the openecu website and ecuflash seems only to be available for windows or mac, so it would seem that to do this I would have to change it over to windows to make it all work.
The other issue you would have to overcome to make everything to work on linux would be to have a usb to serial converter cable that worked as the eee pc does not have a serial port. My LC-1 has a serial cable output so the converter is required. It may be possible to do all this with ubuntu, rather than the xandros installation that comes with the eee pc, as you get the option to use windows drivers but I haven't tried this.
I certainly won't be trying windows xp or ubuntu with one of the kids machines, but I may buy one of the newer versions with the bigger display and 1gb ram when they become available here in the UK and give it a try then. In the meantime I will have to stick with my old hp heavyweight laptop, which is 5 years old, has a 2.6ghz celeron cpu and 768mb ram and apart from it's weight and bulk it runs everything fine.
For anyone considering the eee pc, I think they are great. They boot in a few seconds, the battery lasts and lasts, they are compact and lightweight so would be ideal for tuning use.
Someone just gave me this link, perhaps an alternative to the eee pc ?
http://gizmodo.com/378153/kohijinsha-sr ... ical-drive
