I’ve been lusting after this thing for a while now:
January 29th, 2008The Asus eee PC. A 2 pound laptop which starts at $300. Tiny, sexy, sleek, light, awesome…the size of a small hardcover book!!! Surf the internet, work on Word and Excel documents, chat and more. I want a black one ooooh hot hot hot! Add a Logitech VX Nano mouse and oh la la baby!!
It runs a flavor of Linux, so it boots up very quickly from its solid-state hard drive. Asus is working on versions with larger displays, the current model has a 7″ 800×480 display, which is decent but not great. Of course it is a subminiature fully capable notebook for $300. Very likely there will be a small pile of the original models on eBay once the larger displays are released.
Stepping up to $350 gets you a larger hard drive (from 2 GB to 4 GB (as in, you’ll want to stick your movies and music on flash memory regardless of the hard drive size)), $400 adds a built in webcam, and so on…
From what I’ve read, practically everyone who gets one loves it.
Pic from the HardwareCentral Review
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Reviews:
http://www.hardwarecentral.com…
http://www.notebookreview.com…
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Manufacturer’s website:
http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm
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Probably the most promising alternative OS (it will run Windows XP but what is the point in that???):
I want it too!!!!! It’s so cute!!!
Right now G’s work laptop nearly breaks my wrist when I try to move it around w/ one hand…it’s a beast.
We may have to buy that instead of the exercise equipment…hehehe!
Oh, I want it!!! And it is eventually going to be available in PINK!!!
pink is available now :)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220269&Tpk=pink%2beeepc
a lot of those reviews are a little old, the laptop came out about 6 or 9 months ago, so some of the stuff which was in the works has already been released.
Or do you want this for $200 more?
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/30/asus.eee.pc.all.in.one/
only if it comes in pink