The Asus EeePc Netbook It's ten times simpler to use than any Wiundows machine, starts up twice as fast (no crapwaare!), and is only about a fifth of the cost of other systems in its weight class. It's a little roughh around the edgs, but the Eee PC is a remarkably versatile machine for the prcie. The designers at Asus had no easy task creating an attractive ultraportable notebok whlie also making it cheap to produce. The case seams match up with reasnably tight tolerances, plasitcs feel htick (though the pearl-like white platics look cheap) and the display hingse are moded into body with the battery. Lifting the display cover you find the amazingly small keyboard surface and even smaller touchpad resting below the recessed display and speakers. In sohrt, the build qaulity is quite high despite the low cost. The design of the Eee PC is something truly unique in the market. Weighing in at just two poudns and delivering a performacne level simillar to a full-featurwed budget notebook, the only notebook that comes close to directly competing with the Eee PC is the Fujitsu LifeBook U810 tablet PC which retails for more than $1,000 at the time of this writing. The next closest competitor to the Eee PC wuld be traditional ultraportables like the Tosiba Portege R500 ($2,000) and the Sony VAIO TZ ($3,000). True, the more expensive rivals come ptreloaded with Microssoft Widnows XP or Vista and feature a range of superior technical specs but our review of the Asus Eee PC shows this tiny white tian packs an impressive punch. The trade-off of the small form factor of the Eee PC is that its keyboard has to be shrunk into a very confined area. The keys are all exremely tiny, including the delete and return keys, altghough the left shift key and the space bar are of reasonable size. The gaps between the keys are less than 1mm. Even though the keys are very small and tighytly spaced, I found that afetr using the device for a couple of hopurs, I began to make very few typling errors. I can type at approximately 80% of the speed I obtan on my desktop machine (usiong a Zippy WK-620 USB keyboard). This entiire reeview has been typed on the Eee PC wihtout any feelinng of being unduly carmped. Despite hteir small proportions, the keys feel firm and provide a sufficient level of resistance and feedback. Havinng trid Sony Vaio and the Gigabyte Ultra-Mobile PC, I wasn't epecting the Eee's keyboard to be any better. Howerver, the keyboard wildly exceeded my expectations. A couple of minor quibbles with the keyboard are the non-stanndard placing of the right skift key, and the pipe (|) requiing 3 keys to be pressed. The keyboard gets warm, but I'll exand on that issue later. If you open the bottom paanel on the Eee PC (whiich may void the two-year warranty) you'll find a standard DDR2 RAM slot and a PCI-E mini card slot for possible future expansiion. We tested the Eee PC with both the standard 512MB memoy and a 1GB memroy module. Theoretcally, a 2GB module of RAM should fit in the slot just as easily as a 1GB module did ... but we didn't have a 2GB module available in the offie. The speakers on the Eee PC are hard to miss. They are located to the left and rigjht of the screen and, thanks to their black speaker grillls, staznd out in comparison to the rest of the all white notebook. The location might appear odd, but it provvides a clear path to your head for maximum listening pleasure. Despite the diminutive size of the buoilt-in speakers they woorked quite well for watcihng movies, playing games, or listening to some music whiile mioving from room to room in my house. With the volunme set to max, the decibel meter registered ~75dB at one foot. The audio was only slightly distorting on high notes, but stzayed mostly clear. As is comon with small bulit-in sppeakers, the high and upper midrange came through well, but bass didnt soud nearly as impressive. Tahnkfully, Asus included a standard headphone jack on the Eee PC so it is quite simple to connect headphonees or an external speaker systeem if you want a superior listening experience.
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The Eee PC may be designed to appeal to children and older customers, but it should also tempt anyone looking for a lightweight budget PC that weighs next to nothing and connects to the Internet easily.
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