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Our Asus Eee Mini Laptop is On it's Way
On Friday I decided it would be a good time to order my girlfriend's big Christmas present an small thin Asus Eee notebook. I know that it is a bit early but I had a feeling that they might sell out and about three hours after I ordered the notebook they did sell out. She wants to pay for a part of it but at $400 that's a pretty awesome price for a sub notebook.
It's a 7-inch notebook that uses four gigs of flash memory instead of a hard drive. It runs a 900MHz Intel Celeron-M, 512 megs of RAM, WiFi and a custom version of Xandros KDE Linux. It also does not have a CD-Drive but it has three USB ports for external storage drives if she needs it. It's has a built in SD card slot so we can add several gigs of storage space just by popping in a card. It gets three to four hours of battery life over a charge and she really is looking forward to taking it out in her hand bag. It is under two pounds, boots in almost ten seconds and is extremely power efficient. The only moving part in it is a small fan for the CPU.
This is going to be our third notebook, I love my iBook and she hardly uses my growing ever cumbersome Windows XP based eMachine notebook. I have a spare USB keyboard and mouse if she finds typing on the keyboard a bit cramped. The 800x480 7 in. screen is be better at web surfing than any mobile. Also she can hook it up to my LCD TV for a larger monitor as needed. I wanted to wait until there were some good reviews of the notebook and some detailed pictures on Flickr.com.
Since she has been using OpenOffice.org, Mozila Firefox and a slew of web apps she is a perfect candidate to use a system like this and I'll be transferring over her files via a thumb drive. A nice thing about it running a Linux distro is that I don't have to worry about malware, viruses. Also we don't use cellphones and have Wifi at home so this is a better choice for use rather than an iPhone, iPod Touch or a Windows Mobile powered PDA. Sub-notebooks are much smaller than a regular notebook but larger than a PDA or handheld mobile devices. It looks just about right for her and it will be her main computer.
It's a darn shame that Apple has never made anything like this. It looks like it's going to be a very personal, interesting and accessible computer we should have it by the end of the week. I can't wait to get my hands on it write a review of it.
Jake at November 11, 2007 
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Comments
You have no idea how freakin' jealous I am right now...
$400 seems steep (well, not compared to a typical notebook). I thought that they were launching them at the $200 price point?
Posted by: HellblazerUSA at November 12, 2007 6:51 AM
There were a series of mess ups expecially concerned with the price of the LCD screen.
Regardless, I'm still interested in one and would like to read any impression you have of it.
Posted by: Al at November 12, 2007 8:09 AM
making me want this even more Jake. But I am waiting for the eeePC 8G model.
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at November 12, 2007 11:29 AM
I'm thinking about picking on up at some point next year (january or april, not sure). Awaiting your review on it.
Posted by: Robert at November 15, 2007 11:04 AM
