Asus Eee Review

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I have bought the ASUS EEE. It arrived early this morning. I must say i was pretty damn pissed when the original target price was 200 dollars and now it's going for 400 everywhere... they ****'in doubled the target price. Here are some quick pros and cons. This product excels at what it was made to do. A ultra portable, light, efficient internet surfer plus, other various programs. I have only tested the ASUS OS (linux Mobile) so far. They "CLAIM" you can install and run windows XP, I don't know how efficiently though. For starters the ASUS OS seems efficient enough for now.... I will be tempted later to install the Windows OS sooner or later. If you're looking for something more intense look elsewhere, this is the perfect laptop to carry around to starbucks or etc, have in your car to do some light research. IT had quite a few nice programs such as mozilla, it has a CAMERA!!! almost forgot. It has a nice mic. IT COMES WITH SKYPE and various other communication tools. Usually I would think twice before bring a 15" laptop anywhere but this thing i would just take without a second thought becasue it was virtually hassle free.

Pics:
http://www.gadgettastic.com/images/asus_eee2.jpg
http://www.cheaplaptops.org.uk/wp-content/laptopimg/2007/06/eee-pc-1.jpg

Pros:
EVERY THING IS FLASH MEMORY
BOOT TIME IS INCONSEQUENTIAL
VERY LIGHT
SMALL COMPACT
SO MANY USES

CONS:
Screen Could be a little sharper
More Memory only 4 gig of Flash space... thats excluding the OS(16gig usb thumb drive fixes that)
512 of ram (I believe it's upgradeable... in fact... what the heck i doubt one will ever need above 512 with this laptop)
Battery life is a little dissapointing... It's around 3.5 hours.
Keyboard is mad small
Camera could be sharper (then again it's only a 400 dollar laptop for christ's sake)

Conclusion:
Buy this damn thing, on top of your pre-existing laptop. When you bring a laptop places it's usually to do some typing work or browse the internet and do email. So this pc is perfect for it, plus it's light and small. Leave that monster 12" or 17" laptop at home.
 
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I've seen these things. I'm surprised that it costs the same in America as it does here. It's tempting, but I'm already buying a 32" HDTV this month, so I think something like that would have to wait.
 
theyre actually coming out 4 models over november. the lowest model will be 200 dolars and have 2 gigs and 256 of memory. which is enough to run xp. my old comp ran xp with 128. i think the highest is 500 and has an 8 gig disk and 1 gig of memory
 
How would you go about installing Windows XP without a CD-Rom drive? Maybe through a USB Flash drive? Also, how do you right click? From the videos I saw it looked like there was only one button below the touchpad.
 
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brycematheson712 said:
How would you go about installing Windows XP without a CD-Rom drive? Maybe through a USB Flash drive? Also, how do you right click? From the videos I saw it looked like there was only one button below the touchpad.
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By using an external cd drive. I'm pretty sure the touchpad has a right click, but if not, then get a usb mouse:D
 
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