Tinkerers and technophobes (Asus Eee PC 4G)

Member Name: Hel466

Product:	Asus Eee PC 4G
Date:	16/06/08 (90 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Small, easy to use

Disadvantages: Not windows?

Tinkerers and technophobes. Somehow and almost seemingly unknowingly, Asus have created a product that appeals to two very opposite ends of the PC user spectrum. The eeepc offers a plethora of options for the more advanced user but for the less technologicaly savvy of us it works straight out of the box with an easy to navigate tab based interface. It needs no setting up.

Despite its size, the 7" screen is bright and crisp. The keyboard, although small is easy to use and after an hour or so of practise you will be wondering why you ever needed that huge hulking piece of plastic cluttering up your desk.

Price: at only £220 asus have redefined the sub notebook catagory of pcs. the nearest equivalent of the eeepc is a sony model costing nearly £1000 more. Where the eeepc may be missing windows the nooptlinux distribution is nearly as compatible with all the regular hardware such as usb pen drives, external optical drives and sd cards. The set up is considerbly easier than anything windows has to offer. simply enter your name and password and noopt linux will take you straight to its easy tabbed desktop mode where you are offered "internet, work, learn and play" Work contains a number of openoffice applications which, yes, incase your wondering, are completly backwardly compatible with the MS Office equivalents, word, excel and powerpoint. Win!

Summary: Revolutionary