You’ll need to spend a few more bob on extras like a Asus’ 3G card and a decent-sized USB flash drive to fully exploit its potential, but that’s a small price to pay for one of the world’s coolest laptops. In short, the EeePC is a geek’s dream and our new favourite toy. There’s even a VGA-out socket for hooking it into a proper screen, should you demand more than seven inches. Wi-Fi set itself up in seconds, memory cards and digital cameras just worked, and everything we plugged into its unnecessarily generous three USB sockets was recognised first time. But with three USB ports, an SD card slot and 3G card support, it’s punching well above its price bracket.Įvery PC toy we threw at the Asus worked right away. And it happily connected to our Buffalo Airstation G54 first time, although it had a habit of not reconnecting when coming out of sleep mode, forcing a reboot. You’d expect a cheap laptop not to bother with stuff like Wi-Fi and Ethernet – but it does. Handily, the Eee PC will also run any Linux-compatible app, and the open-source community has been busy – there are thousands of freebie programs. Firefox also comes as standard, and it’s not some rubbish mobile version either – it’s proper daddy Firefox.
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OpenOffice deals with Word docs, PowerPoint and Excel files, although the supplied SMplayer and Mplayer movie apps wouldn’t play DivX files. Its apps nevertheless do a good job of mimicking the Windows staples. PIM product data: ASUS Eee PC 901 Netbook 22.6 cm (8.9') Intel Pentium Mobile 1 GB DDR2-SDRAM Linux Black EEEPC901-BK006 Notebooks Eee PC 901, Black - Intel Atom N270 (1.66 MHz), 8.9' Active Matrix TFT (1024 x 600), 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth, 20 GB SSD, 1024 Mb DDR II, 1. The built-in media player promises to play most formats, though. If you’re really worried about having 100 percent compatibility with PC versions of your important files, you might have to stick Windows on it, but it won’t be half as fast.Īlso, the likes of iTunes won’t work on Linux, so you won’t be able to use this as a multimedia hub or to feed your iPod.