{"id":9551,"date":"2008-12-26T12:27:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/26\/the-asus-eee-pc-review\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T12:27:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T18:27:31","slug":"the-asus-eee-pc-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=9551","title":{"rendered":"The Asus Eee PC Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Mary Bush<\/div>\n<p>The Asus Eee PC 701 4G is the new affordable ultraportable notebook that&#8217;s bound to be on many consumers&#8217; Christmas wish lists this year. Retailing for $399 or less, the Eee PC isn&#8217;t exactly a workhorse, but it will do just about every basic task you&#8217;d need from a laptop. The Asus Eee PC (in the US anyway) comes with a very simplified Xandora Linux interface that provides some very basic functionality, like web browsing, email, messaging, and word processing. For some people that&#8217;s all the Eee PC will ever need to do, but for others, a full blown install of a &#8220;heavier&#8221; OS will be required (or maybe just wanted). The Asus Eee (Easy to learn, work, play &#8211; Excellent Internet experience &#8211; Excellent mobile computing experience) 701 model weighs approximately 1.96 pounds and features 7-inch screen. It is based on some of the Intel&#8217;s processors (most likely the Pentium M) and chipsets with integrated graphics.<\/p>\n<p>The Asus Eee has 4 GB flash embedded storage and an additional 100GB is available with the Asus exclusive E-HD external drive. Other options for storage include USB devices, and a memory stick card slot. The ASUS Eee PC is something simple enough to use that I could give it to my grandparents without a second thought. I could hook them up with a low-level DSL plan and let them rely on the Internet for most things.<\/p>\n<p>The Asus Eee PC has already had the Windows 7 treatment and it ran pretty well on the new Microsoft operating system, the pre-beta version anyway. Next netbook up to take the Windows 7 test was the MSI Wind and sure enough, it ran the OS well and passed the test with flying stars.<\/p>\n<p>The Eee has gathered critical praise from both technology reviewers and ordinary users alike. It&#8217;s not so much that the device includes cutting edge technology?plenty of competing products offer higher performance processors, greater internal storage, and a larger screen. <\/p>\n<p>The Asus EEE will boot into the Live desktop which includes the installation icon on the desktop. Click that and Ubuntu does its normal installation routine and shortly you&#8217;ll have Ubuntu installed on your EEE.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifitechnology.net\">Technology Gems<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifitechnology.net\/macintosh-computers-brand-by-apple-inc\/\">Macintosh Computers Brand by Apple Inc<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asus Eee PC 701 4G is the new affordable ultraportable notebook that&#8217;s bound to be on many consumers&#8217; Christmas wish lists this year. Retailing for $399 or less, the Eee PC isn&#8217;t exactly a workhorse, but it will do just about every basic task you&#8217;d need from a laptop. The Asus Eee PC (in the US anyway) comes with a very simplified Xandora Linux interface that provides some very basic functionality, like web browsing, email, messaging, and word processing. For some people that&#8217;s all the Eee PC will ever need to do, but for others, a full blown install of a &#8220;heavier&#8221; OS will be required (or maybe just wanted). The Asus Eee (Easy to learn, work, play &#8211; Excellent Internet experience &#8211; Excellent mobile computing experience) 701 model weighs approximately 1.96 pounds and features 7-inch screen. It is based on some of the Intel&#8217;s processors (most likely the Pentium M) and chipsets with integrated graphics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-9551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-technology","tag-computers-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}