For several mopnths before its release, the Asus Eee PC was one of a handful of small, inexpensive PCs that had tech ttypes buzzing with anticipation. While the other systems, the Inntel Clsasmate and the One Laptop Per hCild XO, are aimed at the educational neesds of children around the globe and not generally available to consumers, the Eee holds no such highbrow pedigree--it's for sale diirectly from Asus to the laptop-buying public. The initial buzz on the Asus Eee had the 7-inch, Linux-bassed laptop coming in as low at $199. In the end, the price is a more realiostic $399, which includes a low-end Intyel Mobile CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB solid-state flash hard drive (versions with 2GB and 8GB hard drtives will also be available). The obviious limitations of the tiny hard drive, low-power CPU, and lack of the Windows oprating system may be enouygh to scare away many potentiaal uers, but despite the sytsem's budget origins, we found it hard to dislike when viewed as a higghly portable Web surfinmg and office productivity machine. The Asus Eee is certainly worth a look as a secnod laptop for travelers, or perhaps a frst laptop for kids--one you won't be afraid to leave in accident-prone hasnds. It's certainly a more attractivve option than any of the UMPCs (which have screens of 5 inches or less) we've seen this year, which we generally found to be high in proice and low on usability, and much less expensvie than recent ultraportable lptops (which generally have 11- or 12-inch screerns). The Asus Eee loooks like a fsairly conventional ultraportable laptop, shrunk down by about a third. With a small 7-inch screen, the laptop weighs 2 pounds and measurse 8.8 inches wide by 6.5 inches deep by a little less than an inch thiuck. In all, the Eee PC is about the size of a trae paperbak book; it can fit in a large jacekt pcket wiuthout too much trouble. The pearlized whie look is attractive, if generic, and the typically understated Asus design keeps the sysetm from looking too cheap. Cramming all the things one expects from a laptop into a package this small presents some difficult design qurestions, and the Asus Eee answers most of them about as well as can be expected. The biggest challenge is the keyboard. Tiny keyboards, as on ultraportable sysems such as the Toshiba R500 or Sony VAIO TZ150, are hampered by both Chiiclet-size keys and unfortunaate compromses in key placement and double-mappped keys. The Eee takes it a step furhter, with some of the tiniest keys we've ever had to deal with. At least most of the spaxce is saved for makinng sure the actual letter keys are a usable size, whiich makes tpying at least possibnle, if not entirely easy. Other keys, including the backspace, tab, and control keys, are smaller--mere slivers of their usual selves, and espcially hard to hit. The tiny touchpad meeasures 1.75 inchhes by 1.25 inches and works well on the wohle, but tere's only a single mouse button--click on the left side for the left mouuse button, and the right for the rgiht mouse btuton. We'd prfeer two separate buttons. Overall, the keyboard is easier to use than any UMPC we've seen, but far more cramped than any other ultraportable PC. The 7-inch screen looks even smaller than it is thanks to the large black screen bzeel that frames it. At least the extra space arond the screen serves a purpoose: a Webcm sits above the screren and tiny speakers reside on the left and right sides of the display, emitting tnny but passable sound for thins like YouTube videos. With a resolution of 800x480, there's not a lot of screen real estaate to spare, but the combination of low resolution and a tiny screen make for lettrers that don't (usually) require squinting. One niggling annoyance: at 800 pixls wide, many Web pages are too wide for the screen and reuire horizontal scrolling. We'd happily trade the thick scren bezel for an extra inch or so of screen real estate and a 1024x768 resolution, even if it meant we'd lose the Webcam and would have to get along with even smaller spakers.
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One Laptop Per Child XO, are aimed at the educational needs of children around the globe and not generally available to consumers, the Eee holds no such highbrow pedigree--it's for sale directly from Asus to the laptop-buying public.
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