November 5th, 2007
ASUS Eee PC 4G User Reviews
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Loading ...Reviewed By Joe Romeo “Happy Tech Addict” —On November 4, 2007
I’ve seen a lot of negative reviews on other sites saying you can get a “real” laptop for not much more money. Well, I bought one of these as a present and after seeing it run in person this little computer IS a real laptop! The operation system is very intuitive and easy to use, it comes with a bunch of different applications, but more importantly it just works. The small screen and keyboard take some getting used to, but as long as you purchase the Eee knowing you’ll having to adjust then you shouldn’t have any problem. I was touch typing at relatively good pace after playing around with the unit for just a few minutes. The small amount of flash storage isn’t an issue either since even a 8gb SDHC card can be had for a reasonable price. Now that I’ve seen one in action I’m seriously considering replacing my PDA/IR Keyboard setup with one of these. Until you see it in person it’s hard to believe just how powerful a device Asus put together here. Right now I’m one of the Eee PC’s biggest supporters. If you want a very small form factor laptop, or just a device to blog/read e-books/write/watch video’s/play music/surf the web/do just about anything else you can do with a full fledged computer, THIS IS FOR YOU!
Reviewed By A. Sverdlov —November 4, 2007
Got this primarily to use as a portable dev box, replaced my 14″ Dell. Good bits: it’s much smaller and lighter than it looks (cut a 14″ Dell in two, and you get the idea of how small this thing is—it fits in my coat pocket). Bad bits: not much free flash memory, keyboard is a bit small-ish, and some keys are annoyingly placed (right shift and up arrow key get confused too often, as well as quote).
The laptop comes with `kid-friendly’ user interface, but can be easily switched to `advanced mode’; which is essentially KDE. You get 1.4Gigs free of flash memory, and using apt-get, can install (among other things): gcc, jdk, vim, apache, php, mysql, audacious, firefox, etc. (ie: anything a linux user might want). RAM is a limitation—as far as I know, there’s no swap partition, so if you have a bit too many things running, you’ll get weird coredumps from time to time.
Doesn’t support WPA2 out of the box, otherwise wireless (with WPA) works just fine. Webcam is pretty sharp and clear (on par with midrange quickcams), and microphone is pretty useful.
Processor is fast enough to play xvid video full screen (from flash drive—though it’s not like you’ll be storing too much of that on that small disk). I’ve read about folks playing Quake3 on it. The screen resolution for external (vga) output is pretty decent—used it with projector.
Recognizes external drives without problems. Automounts stuff, etc. For a linux box, I’m actually quite surprised that “everything just works” (unlike my desktop—that takes pain and struggle to get stuff working).
If you want an easy to carry, small and semi-rugged laptop for word-processing or coding—primarily when on the go (on subway, etc.) then this box is it. The few hundred megabytes of flash memory you’ll have free is plenty for documents or source code.
Will likely upgrade next year for the 10″ screen version (hopefully with more ram and bigger flash drive—the processor is more than enough for my needs).
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