Excellent, but not perfect for everyone | Asus Eee 4G 7" PC Mobile Internet Device (512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard...

darn good product, few cavats. | Asus Eee 4G 7" PC Mobile Internet Device (512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard Drive, Webcam, Linux Preloaded) Pearl White

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	• Asus Eee 4G 7" PC Mobile Internet Device (512 MB RAM, 4 GB Hard Drive, Webcam, Linux Preloaded) Pearl White Asus Asus average customer review:based on 51 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Nothing Else Like it on the Market !!

Forget about the iPhone or the IPod Touch--this gizmo has them beat for new gadgets!

We bought the 8 GB in white for our teen daughter for Christmas. She wanted an iPhone (ha!) but we knew this would serve her much better and she is happy that we surprised her with this little monster machine....

Our family travels all over the world and this machine is PERFECT for international travel. It is light, well-built, sturdy, and does everything you could want it to do (short of film and graphics editing). The internal wireless is super strong and picks up signals farther away than my Sony Vaio laptop. Because it is Linux loaded it is lightening fast for startup and loading of pages.

We just finished a 3 day road trip and we brought an inverter so daughter could work on her EeePC in the car. She went from watching videos and listening to music (all stored on memory SD cards) to playing games to making meal/toilet stops at Starbucks/Panera/McDoanld's where she logged ont to the internet. At EVERY stop we were asked about the Eee, people stood around and ogled the machine.

I know there are a few reviewers that give this a 1 or 2 star rating, but let's face it, if you want a super UPMC that does everything you can dream of, then go somewhere else and shell out 2 grand.

Otherwise, buy yourself an Eee and enjoy it!

BTW, I talked to the Asus rep in the US and she told me that accessories--extra batteries and adapters--will hit the retail market in mid January.

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Excellent, but not perfect for everyone

This is a pretty nifty gadget, the Eee PC. I have got it a few days ago and had the chance to fool around with it for a while.
It's an excellent product for what it is--a cheap, featherweight laptop. The closest competitor of this caliber, or at least this size, easily jump above and beyond 1 grand. From that alone, it's a standout--and in a class of its own.
I have not had a chance to play with the operating system it came with; I had a tweaked copy of Windows XP as soon as I received it. The NAND storage is fast and silent, as noted by lack of noise from disk spinning. However, it is not exceptionally fast--it just has a much better access time, and read and write rates are not spectacular. On a slimmed down Windows, though, it loads relatively quickly--within 1 minute. Installing firewall and antivirus slowed the system down by quite a bit.
Everything on this system is tiny. Unless you plan on hooking the system up to an external monitor--Eee PC thankfully has a VGA port--you might as well give up on doing Photoshop; the resolution is awkward (I have not heard of a single monitor or display that did 800x480 until Eee PC came along), and the screen is about as good as my old Dell but with a quarter of a size at 7 inch. The speakers that are stuck next to the monitor are, though, quite good, as long as the volume is not too high.
Then there are the keyboards. It takes a while to get used to the size and layout of the keys. ` key is right next to Escape key, and the right shift key is in an awkward position, to the right of the up arrow key. The feel of the keyboard is, well, toy-like; it's as though the keyboard was made for a ten-year-old child. My hands are not big at all, but when I'm using the Eee PC's keyboard, they feel very, very unwieldy. Even after some practice / typing / grimacing on the keyboard, I am still not used to it.
Unlike other reviewers, though, I kind of liked the touchpad on it. Sure, it's small, but it has the scrolling ability and it's snappy enough, just like the computer itself.
It's an excellent computer for its price, but I find myself wondering just what the hype is about this Eee PC. The only thing it has going for itself is the form factor; never before have subcompact laptops been this affordable. It has a lot of shortcomings, but it's a start. I just don't want to type my term paper if I can help it.

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darn good product, few cavats.

On the surface, this is a VERY good product. It's size and features make it superb for common uses.

The memory compartment on the bottom is sealed, I broke the seal just to see what was under there. I don't think it is appropriate for commodity PC products to be sealed in this manner.

I took it to school but the school network doesn't support linux. I think more people should buy these and demand open networks! Microsoft doesn't deserve to own the world.

Konqueror is better than firefox. I wish I could pick the browser.
There doesn't seem to be a SMTP mail client.

Finally, to get to the guts of the machine, you need to open the file manager, and create a link in your "my home" directory to /user/bin/xterm.
You can then use this new icon to access otherwise hidden features of your machine such as SSH and a unix shell.

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I absolutely love this cool and useful device!

So what can be said about this tha hasn't been said?

As the head of a media technology production company, I have been lucky to use and own a variety of cool machines over the years, from the first Amiga computer and the video toaster, to PC's, Macs, early Avid video edit systems, DAT recorders, mini-disc recorders, film look video and now hi-def video. Once in a while a device comes along that redefines the paradigm for its prodcut catagory. The video toaster was one such device for video, and years later so was the Avid. Of course the ipod was one such device (I owned a hard drive based mp3 player BEFORE the ipod was created).

This device has redefined the paradigm for portable computing. That's it, plain and simple. Having just come back from a business trip where I brought my fairly big bulky laptop that I only used for email, I can easily embrace the pragmatism of this device.

And, as a Linux user for many years, I think the decision to install a custom Linux distribution on this is nothing short of brilliant!

Now down to the particulars. I have the 4g model with 4 gigs of ram. It is more than adequate for the device. It works great, is stable and fast. Plenty fast enough for web surfing and writing (as I am doing right now; writing this review on the eee pc wirelessly from my living room in front of the roaring fire on this new Year's morning).

The keyboard is not the best. I fid that letters I thought I had typed (as in this sentence) just don't take. But as an experienced thumb typer on a Treo PDA, I know I will get used to this soon enough.

The battery life seems pretty decent to me. I've owned this unit now (4g black) for two days.

And if anything, its smaller and lighter than it looks. It is very easy to toss this in a backpack and forget its even there. Try that with even a small laptop. When I want to do the things I do with a pc more than half the time (when I'm not editing audio, video or working in Dreamweaver or Photoshop) this thing works like a charm.

It is beautiful elegant tool, that does what is designed to do flawlessly. Those who bemoan its shortcomings are confusing this little wonder with something entirely different.

And did I mention the price? For $399, you cannot go wrong, and you will be shocked at just how right you will be. I own 25 or so computers with probably 10 different OS's, and this one is by far my favorite. It's the Mona Lisa's smile in the digital age: a sweet little somethings that's nothing short of beautiful!

And did I mention the price?

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A perfect secondary computer

Got this for school/work and it is a perfect secondary computer. Strong pickup for wireless signals and so easy to use. Love it. If you need extra memory, get a flash drive, but the Eee has plenty for what I use it for. It fits in my purse and starts up in seconds so I can just pull it out and start writing any of the dozen term papers I have due at any given time.

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