Oqo Model 02

Presented by Jonney Shih, CEO of ASUS at Intel's keynote address on the first day of the show, the Eee PC has already made headlines around the world.

We found the small seven-inch, 800 x 480 pixel display pretty easy on the eyes, especially when compared with the Ultra-Mobile PC like the OQO model 02 (5 inches) and FlipStart 1.0 (5.6 inches), but most users don 't that the point of reference. A regular three years a 14-inch LCD did not mind the screen while she was having fun with Mickey and his friends on Playhousedisney.com. On the other hand, we do not see many people over 50 years using this device as a primary computer unless they hook it up to a bigger external LCD, which start at about $ 170.

Overall, the design of the Eee PC is very solid and incredibly travel-friendly for the price. Our white model (black and other colors will come later) features an SD Card slot, two USB ports and a VGA port on the right. An additional USB port, Ethernet and modem, and headphone and microphone line taken left side. The keyboard is cramped but is just big enough to touch type, the biggest annoyance is the proximity of the up arrow and right shift key, a line is accidentally moved several times while trying to take advantage of a letter. And although we have no unified spirit, feeling a bit shabby-touch button you can click left or right, our tester foundling confusing at first.

You will not get much in the way of material a little over 200 pounds, but the Eee PC should not be amortized. It uses an Intel Celeron Mobile 900 MHz-M ULV processor is designed for long battery life rather than hardcore number crunching. The Asus version ships with 512MB of RAM as standard, but other retailers such as RM offer versions with 256MB of RAM. If you intend to revise sharply with the machine or the installation of Windows, we recommend that you change the model 512.

One of the points of the machine's best selling is that it uses a hard drive, solid state (SSD). The largest model Asus supplies is 4GB, 33 per cent of what is already in use when you buy the machine .* Here again, some manufacturers offer a 2GB SSD and it is possible to connect a card large memory to the SD card slot for additional storage.
On the panel of the Eee PC's left side, the laptop has two USB 2.0 ports, microphone and audio ports, a 10/100 Ethernet port and a 56K modem phone port. To show how thin the Eee PC is, I used a NT $ 10 coin, which is similar in size to a coin of the United States half dollar. As you can see, the Eee PC is very thin.

The right side panel of the Eee PC 701 has more than two USB 2.0 ports, VGA output, and even a flash card reader. The notebook uses a 4-cell battery which gives it only about 3 hours of battery life when it is moving. As you may have noticed, there are no optical drives included with the Eee PC, and there is no place to add to the laptop itself, so any DVD burners will be installed outside by one of the Eee PC 701, four USB 2.0 ports.

The Eee PC does not use a Microsoft operating system, which is part of the reason it is so cheap. Instead, Asus supplies its own graphical user interface Linux. The laptop also comes with nearly 40 applications, which is probably more than you get with a standard Windows laptop. It includes Firefox for browsing the web, Skype, OpenOffice and SMPlayer for video playback.

Obviously, being a Linux machine, users can download any number of open source software - so it'll fit on the disk drive. The Eee PC is theoretically fast enough to run Windows XP, which is great news for those of us without beards.

It is difficult to fault the Eee PC, mainly because of its price. It may be difficult to use because the keyboard cramped, but it's better than similar-sized laptops like the Toshiba Libretto. If you're in the market for a second PC, or research.