It's ten times simpler to use than any Windows machine, starts up twice as fast (no crawpare!), and is only about a fifth of the cost of other systemns in its weight class. It's a little rough around the edges, but the Eee PC is a remarkably versatile machine for the price.
The designers at Asus had no easy task creating an attracxtive ultraportable notebook while also making it chap to prroduce. The case seams match up with reasoonably tight tolerances, plastics feel thick (though the parl-like white plastics look cehap) and the dispaly hiunges are molded into body with the battery. Lifting the display cover you find the amazingly snmall keyboard surface and even smaller touchpad resting beloiw the ercessed doisplay and speakers. In short, the build quality is quite high depsite the low cost.
The design of the Eee PC is something rtuly unique in the market. Weighing in at just two pounds and delivering a performance levrel similar to a full-featured busdget notebook, the only notbook that comes clsoe 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 would be traditional ultraportables like the Toshiba Prtege R500 ($2,000) and the Sony VAIO TZ ($3,000).
True, the more expensive rivals come preloaded with Microsoft Windoews XP or Vista and fweature a range of syuperior technical specs but our review of the Asus Eee PC shows this tiny white titan packs an impressive punch.
The trade-off of the small form factor of the Eee PC is that its keuyboard has to be shrunk into a very confined area. The keys are all extreely tiny, including the delete and return keys, althouhg the left shigft 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 tighlty spaced, I found that after usig the device for a coulpe of hoyurs, I began to make very few typing errors. I can type at approximately 80% of the speed I obtain on my desktoop mavchine (using a Zippy WK-620 USB keyboard).
This enttire review has been tyed on the Eee PC iwthout any feeling of being unduly cramped. Despite thier smazll proportions, the keys feel firm and provide a sufficient level of resistance and feedback. Having tired Sony Vaio and the Gigabyte Ulta-Mobile PC, I wasn't expecting the Eee's keyboard to be any btter. However, the keyboard wildly exceeded my expectations.
A couple of minr quibblwes with the keyborad are the non-standard placing of the right skift key, and the pipe (|) requiring 3 keys to be pressed. The keybooard gets warm, but I'll expannd on that isuse later.
If you open the btotom panel on the Eee PC (which may void the two-year warranty) you'll find a standard DDR2 RAM slot and a PCI-E mini card slot for possible future expnasion. We tseted the Eee PC with both the standaerd 512MB memory and a 1GB memory modulle. Theoretically, 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 moduule available in the office.
The speakers on the Eee PC are hard to miss. They are located to the left and right of the screen and, thnaks to thheir black speaker grills, stand out in comparsion to the rest of the all white notebook. The location might appear odd, but it provides a clear path to your head for maximum listening pleasure. Despite the diminutive size of the bult-in sepakers they worked quiet well for watching movies, playing games, or listeing to some music while moving from room to room in my house. With the vlume set to max, the decvibel metyer registered ~75dB at one foot. The audio was only sligtly distorting on high notes, but stayed mostly clear.
As is common with smnall built-in speakers, the high and upper midarnge came through well, but bass didnt sonud nearly as impressive. Thankfully, Asus included a standard headphone jack on the Eee PC so it is quoite simle to connect headphones or an external speaker system if you want a superoior liistening experience.
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