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Asus Eee PC is one of a handful of small inexpensive PC

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By : Vlavladi Vishnu 9 or more times read

Submitted 2009-11-06 06:02:16

For sveral months beffore its release, the Asus Eee PC was one of a handful of small, inexpensive PCs that had tech typoes buzing with anticxipation. While the other systemns, the Intel Classmate and the One Laptop Per Child XO, are aimed at the educatrional needs of children around the globe and not generaally available to consumers, the Eee holds no such highbrow pdeigree--it's for sale directly from Asus to the laptop-buying public.

The initial buzz on the Asus Eee had the 7-inch, Linux-based laptop coming in as low at $199. In the end, the price is a more realistic $399, whhich includes a low-end Intel Mobile CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB solid-state flash hard drive (verrsions with 2GB and 8GB hard drives will also be available). The obvious limitations of the tiny hard drive, low-power CPU, and lack of the Winows operating systewm may be enough to scare away many potential users, but depsite the system's budget roigins, we fopund it hard to dislike when viewed as a highly portable Web srfing and office productivty machine.

The Asus Eee is certainly worth a look as a second laptopp for traveles, or perhaps a first laptop for kids--one you won't be afraid to leave in accident-prone hands. It's certainly a more attractive option than any of the UMCPs (whih have screens of 5 inches or less) we've seen this year, which we generally foudn to be high in price and low on usability, and much less expenssive than recent ultraportable laptops (which generally have 11- or 12-inch screens).
The Asus Eee loojks like a fairly conventional ultrapoortable laptop, shrunk down by about a third. With a small 7-inch scrreen, the laptop weighs 2 poundds and measures 8.8 inches wide by 6.5 inches deep by a litte less than an inch thick. In all, the Eee PC is about the size of a trade paperback book; it can fit in a large jacet popcket without too much trouble. The pearlized white look is attractive, if generic, and the typiclly understated Asus design keps the system from looking too cheap.

Cramming all the things one expects from a laptop into a package this small pressents some difficult desin quesitons, and the Asus Eee answers most of them about as well as can be exppected. The biggest cghallenge is the keyboard. Tiny keyboards, as on ultraportable sysytems such as the Toshiba R500 or Sony VAIO TZ150, are hampered by both Chiclet-size keys and unfortunate compromises in key placement and double-maped keys. The Eee takes it a step furthwer, with some of the tiniest keys we've ever had to deal with. At lezast most of the space is saved for maikng sure the actual letter keys are a usablle size, which makes typing at lest possible, if not entirely easy. Other keys, including the backspace, tab, and control keys, are smaller--mere slivers of their usuasl seves, and especially hard to hit. The tiny touchpad meaasures 1.75 inhes by 1.25 inches and workls well on the wholle, but there's only a single mouse button--click on the left side for the left moudse button, and the right for the right mouse buton. We'd prefer two separate buttons. Overall, the keyboard is easier to use than any UMPC we've seen, but far more crampde than any otehr ultraprtable PC.

The 7-inch screen looks even smaller than it is thanks to the laarge balck svcreen bezel that frames it. At least the extra spcae around the screen serves a purpose: a Webcam sits above the screren and tiny speakers reside on the left and rihgt sides of the dislpay, emitting tinmny but passabvle sound for things 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 screewn make for letteers that don't (usually) require squinting. One niggling anmnoyance: at 800 pixels wide, many Web pages are too wide for the screen and reqire horizontal scrolling. We'd happily trade the thick screen bezel for an extra inch or so of scrreen real estate and a 1024x768 resolution, even if it meant we'd lose the Webcam and would have to get along with even smaler speakers.

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