Modded Eee PC selling for $3200! on Ebay

$3200, yes that’s the price tag that a modder/hacker has put on a heavily modded 8GB Asus Eee PC which is currently available on eBay. Davidwcs took an 8GB 7-inch Eee PC and had a grand time modding the unit to come up with the following specs:
8gb solid state drive
32gb patriot xt drive *
2gb RAM *
Intel Wi-Fi A/B/G/N upgraded card
GPS with Sirff III
7″ LCD with touch screen
Air Play installed so you can transmit all of your sound to an FM radio
Custom copper heatsink installed because it’s overclocked
bluetooth adapter
2 usb hubs so all the USB devices can hook up to the Eee PC
web cam
speakers
microphone
3 USB ports
one external VGA port so you can hook up an external monitor
Windows XP Professional SP3 With all the drivers installed and tested
Screen resolution is set a 1024×768 with the hacked Video Driver
Those are definitely impressive features! This guy is definitely a genius and hardworking to come up with such an upgraded 7-inch Eee PC. And for $3200? Will anybody take the plunge is buy it? Well, online auction for the said Eee PC is up until May 6, 2008. We’ll wait and see if there’s anybody out there crazy enough to buy the Eee PC for that high price.

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