So i got a new computer the other day. It is an Asus EEE laptop. For those who have not heard of this yet, it is a new laptop that Asus has built to be cheap, ultra portable, and easy to use. When I opened the box, I was pretty happy to see just how small this thing was, it makes regular laptops look like monsters. Its just a little to big to fit inside of a "leg pocket" of a nice pair of cargo pants....but anyway, I purchased the 4G (which means it has a 4 gig hard drive) which seems pretty small, but it has a SD card slot for more storage space. It also has built in wi-fi, a web-cam, web-mail/e-mail checker, instant messaging, games, office software (open-office), firefox web browser, and several other niffty programs. The O.S. is a modified version of xandros (Linux instead of windows), and dont let that turn you off. It uses a desktop manager to make everything easy to use and operate, and because it is Linux it will boot in ~15 sec. and can be sold much cheaper than an equivalent pc with windows. However it can be installed with windows XP if you must have it....the user manual has a step by step process on how to do that.
PROS.- very small/light
- fancy little OS with pretty good hardware support(printers and such)
- fairly reasonably priced
- good for making your friends jealous
CONS.- personally I could use a little more battery life(mine runs 3.5 Hr.)
- can get a bit warm/hot sometimes(not scary hot yet)
- ive had a little bit of trouble connecting to networked computers(to share files/printers)but that might be unrelated to the laptop
Overall 8.5 outa 10
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