Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Dec 2007 17:46 UTC, submitted by Steve Emms
Hardware, Embedded Systems A review of the Asus EeePC. It concludes: "The Eee PC may be targeted at children and students, but it should also entice anyone needing a compact, low cost, yet fully functional PC. It is featherweight, far easier to use than a Windows machine, starts up three times faster, and costs about a quarter of anything in its weight class."
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RE[4]: And...
by dagw on Thu 6th Dec 2007 14:39 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: And..."
dagw
Member since:
2005-07-06

And why wouldn't we be talking audiovisual media? A few films for those flights or train rides seems to be a very common use of laptops. Other uses would include additional software. If I had one of these I'd love to get mathematica and matlab if I could onto it. They're pretty big programs. Other people in other fields probably have their own software they'd like to add.

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RE[5]: And...
by hobgoblin on Thu 6th Dec 2007 15:14 in reply to "RE[4]: And..."
hobgoblin Member since:
2005-07-06

sounds like people are expecting more from the device then is evidence for.

if one want storage, go for the 8GB or grab a extra card.

i would not call playing a full length movie on this one excepted use out of the box.

its more of a web device then a full on laptop given the specs.

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by leos on Thu 6th Dec 2007 17:01 in reply to "RE[5]: And..."
leos Member since:
2005-09-21

i would not call playing a full length movie on this one excepted use out of the box.


Of course that's expected use. It comes with a media player, and it plays all videos I've tried flawlessly, including DVD quality movies. The hardware can handle that no problem.

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