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The EeePC runs a 900MHz Celeron M which has been clocked down to 630MHz (a later BIOS update allows you to push the speed higher if you like, but can cause lockups), features 512MB DDR2 RAM and 4GB of solid state storage (with an 8GB SSD/1GB RAM version to come). Of course there's the entire other market of technophiles who would love to get their hands on this thing as a second PC or something to hack around with, and being small enough to slip into a handbag it fills the gap nicely between PDA and full-sized laptop, an appealing proposition to those always on the move who have to do light computing duties such as word processing and Web browsing. While the school children will no doubt have a blast, we imagine the elderly would have problems with the small keys and screen.
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Either way, ASUS plans to release an EeePC with Windows XP Home installed in the future.ĪSUS has pitched the EeePC primarily at first PC users, in particular drawing attention to school children and the elderly. Xandros signed a "broad collaboration agreement" with Microsoft in June, of which the public details are very vague - so presumably this is part of it or Microsoft's lawyers must be getting really itchy trigger fingers by now.
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The GUI is built on Xandros (a distribution of Linux), with the application skins appearing to be taken wholesale from Windows XP's silver "Luna" theme. The only real design SNAFU is that the built-in microphone is situated under the laptop, meaning you'll either need to pick up the notebook or lower yourself to desk level to register your voice at a decent volume, resigning users to the external microphone port for decent results. The trackpad is just as comfortable as its bigger cousins, but can sometimes be hard to tap-click and the scroll region is tiny, making it quite difficult to activate, and the configuration tool doesn't allow you to change this.
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In terms of input the keys are quite tiny, which could cause problems for adults using it for extended periods of time.