Website review: Asus Eee PC: When the price is as ...
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del35 discovered 10 months ago- Asus's Eee PC is a wireless-ready PC that's smaller than a sheet of A4 - for £219. Claudine Beaumont looks for the catch.
Asus has kept the cost down by using open-source software - it runs a Linux operating system rather than Windows, although future versions will be available with Windows; uses OpenOffice (oppenoffice.org) for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations; and has the excellent Firefox web browser for surfing the internet. And rather than using an expensive hard drive in the unit, Asus have opted for 4GB of solid-state flash storage, a "disk" with no moving parts that means the computer can boot up in double-quick time. It also has 512MB of memory - rather low for modern computers, but more than adequate for the processing functions demanded by this stripped-down device.
Very smart idea indeed. In a few months I predict that a machine with a bigger flash drive will be released.- Asus's Eee PC is a wireless-ready PC that's smaller than a sheet of A4 - for £219. Claudine Beaumont looks for the catch.
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