Trackball Mod for an EEE PC

A modder over Plasti-bots has been able to integrate a trackball into the body of his ASUS EEE 901 netbook. He used the trackball from the Apple’s mighty mouse and soldered it onto the motherboard of the EEE 901.

The Apple Mighty Mouse uses a built-in driver from Win XP. From the trackball standpoint, the driver provides the ability to scroll vertically (95% of what I was looking for). However, it does not provide horizontal scrolling

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Orange announces Eee PC 901 with integrated 3G

Orange has just launched the ASUS EEE PC 901 with integrated 3G. What does this means? This means that you won’t have to use the Icon 225 dongle to get onto the network. The specs of the original 901 have not changed much, but this time the 3G connectivity is on-board, thus eliminating the need [...]