![]() ![]() The bundled software is comprehensive, and includes Skype Firefox Thunderbird KDE Mail, used for PIM data rather than email OpenOffice Acrobat Reader the Pidgin multi-network instant messaging app photo, music and video managers a media player and an array of utilities, including a file browser. The machine starts straight into Asus' own front-end: a set of icons grouped into categories, each category on a different tabbed pane. Our review unit has 4GB of Flash, of which around 2.9GB was consumed by the OS, bundled apps and sample files leaving just over a gigabyte for new stuff. What the Eee PC brings to the sub-sub-notebook category are a few modern refinements: Linux, Wi-Fi and solid-state storage. It's not the first of its kind – Sony's been offering a variety of these tiny machines for years, Toshiba once made headlines with its oh-so-small Libretto and we're old enough to remember Olivetti's much missed Quaderno.Īsus' Eee PC 701: smart, stylish and very portable Will they be disappointed?įirst, for anyone's who's missed the Eee PC hoopla, Asus' little laptop is like a standard 13.3in notebook that's been shrunk to two-thirds of its usual size. It's garnered an amazing welcome from computer users looking not for the acme of performance but for a highly portable wireless notebook with a decent battery life. 2007's Top Products Asus' diminutive Eee PC 4G 701 micro-laptop is here.
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