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Asus EEE PC
Since our feature on the new Asus portable wunderkind (see “Your
own PC: Funky but affordable” on page six of the November 2007
issue), we’ve been inundated with enquires about local availability. Yes,
they’re finally here, and you can get them today from retailers like Hifi
Corporation and Incredible Connection. Out of town? Kalahari.Net says it
will ship the EEE PC 701-W (R3 299.95* on the website) to you within
a week, and was due to launch the PC 701-CW (R3 599.95* on the
website) at the time of going to press.
These ultrasmart critters are creating a new segment in the portable
notebook market; that of low ultrasmall — even pocket-size — Web surfing
and mobile devices. One clear indication of their potential is Gartner’s belief
that within four years, half of all travelling workers will leave their notebooks
at home in favour of such devices. Indeed, so taken is the industry with the
Asus Eee, that — (since imitation is the sincerest of flattery) — it seems
companies like Acer are rapidly following suit.
And if you’re running an IT department and are wondering whether
such ultrasmall devices aren’t really enterprise tools, think again. Gartner
warns you will soon have to manage a wider variety of client device
types, and advises you to include this requirement in the selection criteria
for all client computing management solutions.
“Apply workstation-style criteria for security, privacy and tracking to
portable personalities,” the research group adds. “If you can’t emulate
what can be done on a workstation, you will fail to meet compliance
requirements.”
“We see this product as one of those revolutionary products that
only come around once in a lifetime,” Zandré Rudolph, sales director at
Rectron, tells us. “the way the cell phone changed our lives, this little
powerful EEE PC will change the way we communicate and interact with
and on the Internet.”
According to Rudolph, the new EEE PC could go a long way to bridging
the digital divide in South Africa, since it makes It available and affordable
to everyone, and addresses the needs of both the PC-literate, as well as of
people who have never used a PC before.
“The nice thing about the EEE PC is that it’s aimed at one specific market
segment, but will be used in all the other sectors, including school kids,
university students, grandparents, moms and teachers and so on,” he adds.
Having used an EEE PC for a while, we were — quite frankly
— astonished and fans within five minutes. they may be “low-cost”
but there’s none of the typical tackiness that comes with el-cheapo
technologies. the Asus Eee just oozes quality from every little pore. In
our tests, wireless access worked better than even full-featured, far more
expensive notebooks, proving fast and reliable access both to a LAN as
well as the Internet. If you’ve got great big stubby fingers, you may find the
keyboard a bit cramped, and if your eyesight is particularly bad, the screen
may not be to your liking, but these may be small sacrifices for this kind of
technology in a unit slightly bigger than a DVD box.
We can’t wait to see where this technology will take us.
011 203 1000
700-w R2 999*
701-w R3 495*
701-Cw R3 895*
CHARGED Southern Africa March 2008
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Better with B l a c k M a g i c
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Eee PC Asus review, infelizmente rodando o Mula. Incrivelmente pequeno e robusto comparado ao Palm.
- Processador Intel Celeron M 353 ULV 900 MHz;
- Memória RAM DDR2, 667 MHz, de 512 MB (expansível até 2 GB);
- Memória Flash de 4 GB (em substituição ao HD);
- Tela LCD TFT de 7" e resolução de 800x480 pixels;
- Webcam de 0,3 megapixels;
- 3 portas USB 2.0;
- 1 porta Ethernet;
- Saídas para microfone e fone de ouvido;
- Saída VGA;
- Leitor de cartões de memória SD/MMC;
- Microfone embutido;
- Wireless 802.11b/g Atheros AR5BXB63;
- Bateria de 4 células, Li-Ion, 5200 mAh;
- Touchpad com botão e rolagem de tela;
- Áudio Realtek ALC6628;
- Vídeo Intel GMA 900;
- Entrada Kensington lock para prender o Eee PC a um cabo de segurança.
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Raine, my 4 yr old, had no problem learning with the new Eee. She picked up Linux with incredible ease. I wish more kids had the opportunity to learn a free operating system early in life.
Jacques was traveling with an eee PC (left) and an Nokia N800 (bottom) on his bike trip.
The eee PC came with Linux pre-installed. I showed him how to get more out his small screen by using the Firefox "F11" command for full-screen, as well as the Google Maps Full Screen "user style", which allows for larger visible maps. These two tips in combination made a big difference.
I also tried to upgrade his Firefox to version 3 which provides an even fuller screen mode, but the download from getfirefox.com required a newer version of GTK than was available.
Overall, my impression was in line with the reviews that I read: It's extremely quiet, light and portable, and easily runs applications like Firefox. The small screen size and cramped keyboard are the significant drawbacks.
However, given the portability and the $350 price tag, it's no surprise that they are becoming popular with bike tourists.
The N800 was also impressive. The screen is bright and dense with pixels, and applications are designed to make full use of the small screen. Jacques demonstrated Gmail on the small screen, and it looked fairly usable. At least, for read-only usage. The stylus-based input looked slow to type with. He carried it in addition to the laptop because he uses it as Skype/wifi phone to make extremely cheap or free calls back home to Canada.
I was in a meeting in an adjacent building when I saw this picture. The only trouble is the light had changed by the time the meeting finished and the shadows of the trees were no longer on the building front panels. Oh well. Maybe I should have stopped the meeting and grabbed the shot.
I've got an Eee PC for some months (borrowed from my old school) and it's a really fantastisc tool :-)
Well, principally this setup is so typical: You simply put an external monitor, mouse and keyboard and there you are with a fully equipped PC. (In this picture, the devices are connected to an ordinary PC, anyway).
I loved this netbook - it worked like a charm, very silent and 10 hours battery life.
For some reason, I thought blueberries didn't come around until almost August, and I've got ALL of this blueberry stuff in mind I want to make so I pretty much lost my shit this morning when I saw them (from South Jersey) at the little market in my neighborhood this morning. It was 11 a.m. and today wasn't going to get any better than that so I came home and took a nap. The End.
My computers : Asus Eee PC(Xandros Linux), Apple iMac(Mac OS X Tiger), Dell laptop(MS Windows XP Pro)
A video I shot of unpacking my Eee PC. I had never seen one in person so I thought it would be fun to see how long it took from sealed box to surfing the net. It would have gone faster had I realized that the Eee connected to WiFi automatically. I was trying to establish a connection when a connection already existed. Haha.