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Asus Eee PC 4G |
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29/04/08 (83 review reads) |
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Advantages: Cheap, small, has some good specs for its price
Disadvantages: No windows, hard drive space is small
The Eee pc from Asus is revolutionary for two reasons that buy themselves would not mean very much. The first: It's cheap. And the second: It's small. These two factors have made the Eee a world wide best selling computer, so popular in fact that many companies have tried to replicate it with their own versions, but none have come close to being as successful. In this review I will tell you if I think Asus has deserved to sell that many Eees.
The way Asus managed to make the Eee so phenominally cheap is quite simply and surprising actually. Instead of using the expensive standard windows operating system that almost all computers use, Asus opted to use linux, a cheap and easy operating system. Linux has not been popular in the past, mainly because its advanced UI made it hard for many people to use, but Asus have made their own version of it that works very well, and in my opinion is very easy to use.
I will come on to the specs now as you may be worried that with such a low price comes low performance. You would be wrong here as the Eee has some specs that even with similar UMPS. The processor is an intel celeron 1GHZ, the ram is 512mb (though it can easily be upgraded to £20, there are many videos on youtube to show you how), the screen is 7 inches wide, I am not sure what video and graphics cards are here and unfortunately there is no optical drive because of the small size. There is only a 4GB memory, but than easily and cheaply be upgrade by putting a 32GB SDHC card into the slot on the side for £50 from amazon.
The Eee is extremely light, so much in fact that it does not even come up to a kilogram in weight. The design is quite nice and modern, but the black lining around the edge of the screen and speakers make it fell like a bit of a child's toy. The size means you can easily keep it in your rucksack with other stuff and not feel too much extra weight.
There are some disadvantages though. Having linux means that you can't run all the same programs you could before, .exe files do not work. The main problem for programmes is music software, which is very limited here, Itunes and Windows media player do not work.
All in all at £200 I still think that the Eee is an excellent bargain. It has so many great things about it and the price is incredibly cheap. If you don't like the idea of the screen being a bit too small and the linux operating system then wait for the second gen 9 inch Eee pc, which is just being released. It has windows, but is still very cheap, I am not sure how though. Great product.
Summary: A great computer, but if you need windows then wait for the next one which is out this month
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