Asus EEE PC

I know i am a bit of a gadget freak and will look into something a lot before purchasing. This time round i am really trying to find faults in this particular item, so i don't purchase it - but i cant .

Its a small laptop, with 4GB of internal flash memory and only a 7 inch screen. Okay, so its not a great deal of internal memory once Linux is on there, however it can be purchased with 8GB too. It comes in white and black, internal webcam, SD card slot so you can expand as much as you want, external monitor port, 3 USB connectors and a Ethernet port. The monitor is probably a downfall as it is only 7 inch's with only 800 x 480 pixels. Specs include a 900 mhz processor and a 512 mb ram slot and wifi. The 8 GB one is 1GB ram and i believe that the 2GB version has 256 mb ram. It even has a two year warranty.No one gives you that these days.

People have installed XP on this and the box contains all the drivers if you wish to install it. Pre loaded is open office and about 40 other applications to help you with your daily activities, chat compatible with msn, firefox web browser, video player for most formats and even voice recognition software. Personally, i think this is to be a second machine for someone - some surfing, streaming and chat. You will have to keep your itunes elsewhere.

I would say the biggest downfall would be the screen and the fact it does not have the ability to have a security log on. However, this is based on a open source platform so you can install another version of linux or just wait for someone to develop a application. Students love it as its small and handy and i am looking into this over the new upcoming 12 inch macbook, as that will probably be about £600 + . Who cares i will get both. Why you ask? - this thing is only £219, if you can get hold of one. They have sold 350,000 since the end of November. Yes £219, that's cheaper than some PDA's, cheaper than a ipod or iphone, the same cost as a tie jacket and pair of jeans in the sale from Ted Baker. Going to have to get me one of these and i think there will be a lot of others out there wanting one too. If you get bored of it in a few months, you can just give it to a younger brother or niece etc. They can always use it to do there homework : )


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