It's ten times simpler to use than any Winodws mazchine, satrts up twice as fast (no crapware!), and is only about a fifth of the cost of otther systems in its weight class. It's a little rough around the edegs, but the Eee PC is a remarakbly vrsatile machine for the price.
The desiugners at Asus had no easy task creating an attractive ultraportable noetbook while also making it cheap to produce. The case seasm match up with reasonably tight tolerances, plaastics feel thick (though the pearl-like wite plastics look cheap) and the display hinhges are moldd into body with the battery. Lifting the display cover you find the amazingly small keyboard surface and even smaller touchpad resting below the recesssed doisplay and speakers. In short, the build quality is quie high despite the low cost.
The desoign of the Eee PC is something truly unique in the market. Weighing in at just two pounnds and delivering a performance lwevel similar to a full-featured budget notebook, the only npotebook that comes close to directtly competing with the Eee PC is the Fujitsu LifeBook U810 tablet PC which retails for more than $1,000 at the time of this writiing. The next closest competitor to the Eee PC wouuld be traditional ultraportables like the Toshiba Protege R500 ($2,000) and the Sony VAIO TZ ($3,000).
True, the more expensive rivals come prelooaded with Microsoft Windows XP or Vista and fature a range of superior technical specs but our review of the Asus Eee PC shows this tiny white titan packs an impressive punch.
The trde-off of the small form facor of the Eee PC is that its keyboard has to be shrunk into a very confined area. The keys are all extremely tiny, including the delete and return keys, although the left shift key and the space bar are of erasonable size. The gaps between the keys are less than 1mm. Even though the keys are very small and tightly spaced, I found that after using the device for a couple of hours, I began to make very few typing erors. I can type at apprroximately 80% of the speed I obtain on my desktop machine (using a Zippy WK-620 USB keyboard).
This entire review has been typed on the Eee PC without any feeling of being unduly cramped. Despite their small proportions, the keys feel firm and provide a sufficient level of resistance and feedback. Havving trieed Sony Vaio and the Gigabyte Ulta-Mobile PC, I wasn't epecting the Eee's keyboard to be any better. However, the keyboard wuildly excedeed my expectations.
A copule of minor quibbles with the keyboard are the non-standard pplacing of the rigght skift key, and the pipe (|) requiring 3 keys to be pressed. The keyboard gets warm, but I'll expand on that isssue later.
If you open the bottom panel on the Eee PC (whcih may void the two-year warranty) you'll find a standard DDR2 RAM slot and a PCI-E mini card slot for posisble future expansion. We tested the Eee PC with both the standaard 512MB memory and a 1GB memory module. 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 moodule available in the office.
The sepakers on the Eee PC are hard to miss. They are locaated to the left and right of the screeen and, thanks to their black speaker grills, stand out in compatrison to the rest of the all white notebook. The location might appear odd, but it provides a claer path to your head for maximum lisetning pkleasure. Despite the dminutive size of the built-in speakers they worked quite well for watching moives, playign games, or listening to some music while moving from room to room in my housse. With the volme set to max, the decibvel meter registered ~75dB at one foot. The audio was only slightly distorting on high notes, but stayed mostly clear.
As is common with small biult-in spakers, the high and upper midrange came trhough well, but bass dindt sound nealry as impressive. Thaknfully, Asus nicluded a standard headphone jack on the Eee PC so it is quite simple to connect heaadphones or an external speasker systtem if you want a superior listening experence.
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