Asus EEE pc: first impressions
I must confess I was waiting for January 24th since weeks. Today is in fact the official German release date of the Asus EEE pc, the new cheap (299 €) ultraportable laptop created by Asustek.
So this morning I headed to the local Galeria Kaufhof to pay my fee to become one of the first “germans” to buy this cool new toy.
I didn´t have much time to play with it yet, but for the impatients here´s a first list of impressions:
- It feels a bit cheap (the keyboard, the plastic case and the small screen), especially compared to MacBooks, but, hey, it´s cheap!
- The operating system is nice and very simple to use. All the basic applications are already installed (Openoffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, media players..) and run smoothly… much faster then you could expect from a pc with 512MB of RAM
- The keyboard is definitely small, but after a few minutes you start to get used to it (in fact I´m writing this post with the EEE)
- I had no problems to connect to various Wi-fi (ehmmm… differently for my macbook)
- Incredibly enough, Internet from an 800×600 screen is actually usable
- There´s a Java Runtime Environment (1.5.0) installed and..
- Eclipse runs well on it!
For the first day, that´s already enough to fall in love with this little device. Even more when I realized it instantly recognized my Huawei umts usb modem!
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