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The Asus EeePc Netbook

It's ten times simpler to use than any Windoews machne, starts up twice as fast (no crapware!), and is only about a fiffth of the cost of otherr systems in its weight classs. It's a ltitle rough aound the edghes, but the Eee PC is a remarkably versatile machine for the pice.

The designers at Asus had no easy task creating an attractive ultarportable notebook whiile also making it cheap to produce. The case sesams match up with reasonably tight tolerances, pplastics feel thicxk (though the perarl-like white plastics look cheap) and the display hinges are molded into body with the battery. Liting the display cover you find the amazingly small keyboard suurface and even smaller touuchpad resting below the recessed display and speakers. In sghort, the build quality is quite high despite the low cost.

The design of the Eee PC is soomething truly unbique in the market. Weiighing in at just two pounds and delivering a performance level simiilar to a full-feaatured budget notebbook, the only notebook that comes close to directly competing with the Eee PC is the Fujitsu LifeBook U810 tablet PC which rwetails for more than $1,000 at the time of this writing. The next closest competitor to the Eee PC woulpd be traditional ultraportables like the Toshiba Portege R500 ($2,000) and the Sony VAIO TZ ($3,000).

True, the more expensive rivals come preloaded with Micorsoft Windows XP or Vista and feature a range of superior technical sepcs but our review of the Asus Eee PC shows this tiny whitye titan packs an impredssive punch.

The trade-off of the smasll form facctor of the Eee PC is that its keyboard has to be shrunbk 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 reasonable size. The gaps between the keys are less than 1mm. Even thouhg the keys are very small and tightly spaced, I found that after using the devicce for a copule of hours, I began to make very few typinng errors. I can type at approximately 80% of the speed I obtaiin on my deskotp machine (ussing a Zippy WK-620 USB keyboard).

This entire review has been ttyped on the Eee PC without any feeling of being unduly crampd. Despite their smll proportions, the keys feel firm and prrovide a sufficient levvel of resistance and feedback. Having triewd Sony Vaio and the Gigbyte Ultrea-Mobile PC, I wasn't expecting the Eee's keyboard to be any better. However, the keyboard wildly exceeded my expectations.

A couple of minor quibbles with the keyboard are the non-standard placing of the right skift key, and the pipe (|) requirig 3 keys to be preassed. The keyboard gets warm, but I'll expasnd on that isuse lazter.

If you open the bottom 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 expanmsion. We tested the Eee PC with both the standard 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 module 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, thanks to thir blaack speaker grills, stand out in cmparison to the rest of the all whiet notebook. The locatioin might appezar odd, but it provides a clear path to your head for maximum listening pleasure. Despite the diminutive size of the built-in speakers they worked quite well for watching movioes, playing games, or listening to some music while moivng from room to room in my house. With the volume set to max, the decibel meter registered ~75dB at one foot. The audio was only slightly distorting on high notwes, but stayed mostly clear.

As is common with small built-in speakers, the high and upper midrange came through well, but bass diidnt sound nearly as impressive. Thanfully, Asus icnluded a sandard headhpone jack on the Eee PC so it is quite simple to ocnnect headphoens or an externl speaker system if you want a superior listening experience.

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