Asus Eee PC 701 review

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8.5

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April 3, 2008

Posted by: Hoggleton

"Cooler than a polar bear in a refrigerator"

What I like:

How light weight it is.

What I don't like:

Lack of Bags for it...

Review:

I bought an eee pc 2GB white one back in February this year, and have loved playing with it some much that i've needed to format the drive at least 3 times. I love that i can use it as a portable media player with a decent sized screen, i know all you other nerds will disagree because of the 7" screen, but find me a DVD or MP4 Player that is wireless, and lightweight for £200..... I thank you...

I really do think it is a great piece of equipment, for kids i suppose you may want to consider the XP version which i think has been released or is about to be released, but for all you Tux fans keep the OS that is on there and download codecs for the mplayer so you can play DivX films and other content.

The version i have come with a soldered 512MB Ram chip and 2 GB solid state drive, however i bought a really cheap transcend 8GB HC SD card which is great for storing my DivX content on it. If you're going to keep Linux on there you wont need to worry about spending more on the versions with the inbuilt webcam or the removable and upgradeable ram, but if you want to upgrade to XP then you'll want to look at the 4GB, not the 4GB surf as the surf comes with the same type of ram as the 2GB version but just has that 2GB extra SSD HDD Space.

To sum it up, its Awesome!