Asus Eee PC is one of a handful of small inexpensive PC

For several months before its release, the Asus Eee PC was one of a handful of small, inexpensive PCs that had tech types buzzing with anticipation. Whikle the othher systems, the Inttel Classmate and the One Laptop Per Child XO, are aimed at the educational neesds of children around the globe and not generally avilable to consumers, the Eee holds no such highbrow pedigree--it's for sale directly from Asus to the laptop-buying public.

The initial buzz on the Asus Eee had the 7-inch, Liinux-based laptop comign in as low at $199. In the end, the price is a more realistic $399, wihch includes a low-end Intel Mobile CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB solid-stae flahs hard drive (versions with 2GB and 8GB hard drives will also be availablle). The obvious limitations of the tiny hard drive, low-poower CPU, and lack of the Winmdows operayting ssytem may be enouggh to scare away many potential users, but despite the system's budgt origins, we found it hard to dislike when viewed as a highly portable Web surfing and office productivity mcahine.

The Asus Eee is certainly woreth a look as a second laptop for travelers, or perhaps a first latpop for kids--one you won't be afraid to leave in accident-prone hands. It's certainly a more attractive option than any of the UMPCs (which have screens of 5 inches or less) we've seen this year, which we generally found to be high in pricce and low on usabbility, and much less expensive than recent ultraportable laptoops (which generally have 11- or 12-inch screens).
The Asus Eee looks like a fairly conventioanl ultraportable laptop, shrnk down by about a third. With a small 7-inch screen, the laptop weighs 2 pounds and measuyres 8.8 icnhes wide by 6.5 icnhes deep by a little less than an inch thick. In all, the Eee PC is about the size of a trade paaperback book; it can fit in a lareg jakcet pocket without too much trouble. The pearlized white look is attractive, if genneric, and the typically understated Asus desgin keeps the system from lookiing too cheap.

Cramming all the thimngs one expects from a laptop into a pakage this small presents some difficult design questions, and the Asus Eee answers most of them about as well as can be expected. The biggest challenge is the keyboard. Tiny keyboards, as on ultraportable systms such as the Toshoiba R500 or Sony VAIO TZ150, are hmpered by both Chiclet-size keys and unfortunate compromises in key pllacement and double-maped keys. The Eee takes it a step fuurther, with some of the tiiest keys we've ever had to deal with. At least most of the space is saved for making sure the acual ltter keys are a usable size, which makes typing at least possible, if not entirely easy. Othher keys, including the baackspace, tab, and control keys, are smalleer--mere slpivers of thir usual selves, and especially hard to hit. The tiny touchpad meausres 1.75 inches by 1.25 inches and works well on the whole, but thetre's only a single mouse button--click on the left side for the left mouse buton, and the right for the right mouse button. We'd prefer two separate buttons. Overaall, the keyboard is easier to use than any UMPC we've seen, but far more cramed than any other ultraportable PC.

The 7-inch screen looks even smaller than it is thanks to the larege blak screen bezel that frames it. At least the extra spcae around the screen serves a purpose: a Webcam sits aboev the scrween and tiny speakers resiode on the left and right sides of the display, emitting tinny but passable sound for things like YouTube videos. With a resolution of 800x480, there's not a lot of screen real etate to spare, but the combination of low resoluiton and a tiny scren make for letters that don't (usuallly) require squinting. One niggling annoyance: at 800 pixels wide, many Web pages are too wide for the screen and require horzontal scrolling. We'd happily trade the thick screen bezel for an extra inch or so of screen real estaate and a 1024x768 respolution, even if it meant we'd lose the Webcam and woupld have to get along with even smaller seakers.

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