An ASUS Eee PC 900 or a Normal Laptop?
Laptops used to be expensive computing devices, bought only by those who put a premium on mobility and have the money to pay for it. Thanks to the advancements in technology, we now have smaller chips which comparatively cost less than they did years before, thus driving laptop prices down and making these portable machines affordable to a wider market.
The Advent of Ultraportability
These laptop machines are often referred to as subnotebooks, ultra mobile personal computers or ultraportable computer. These machines are smaller in size and weigh less than the full-sized laptop, but still run on full versions of desktop operating systems like Windows XP or Linux, instead of specialized software like Windows CE or Palm OS.
When they were first launched, subnotebooks were favored by only a few, but the Asus Eee family of computers revolutionized the computing landscape by providing the consumers with a functional yet affordable choice.
The Easy to Learn, Easy to Work, Easy to Play Promise
The latest release is the Asus Eee PC 900, a marked improvement over its predecessor PC 701. With an 8.9-inch display, the screen size is still smaller than the full-sized laptop, but wide enough so you won’t have to scroll sideways to view the full width of a webpage. It also boasts of an increased storage capacity to accommodate more of your pictures, music and data files. Memory has also been doubled, making applications load faster – meaning you learn, work and play faster as well.
The Asus Eee PC 900 is powerful enough to run OpenOffice so that you can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. OpenOffice also lets you save the same files you’ve created as Microsoft Office-compatible files. Surely you won’t hear any complaints from your friends running Microsoft Office!
The Asus Eee PC 900 also lets you surf the Internet with Mozilla Firefox, send instant messages to friends with Pidgin, and e-mail your office files using Mozilla Thunderbird or perhaps loading Gmail or Hotmail through the nifty Webmail button.
It also keeps you entertained by playing your music on the Media Player. You can organize your music files using the Music Manager or record sound files with Sound Recorder.
What makes the Asus Eee PC 900 a good buy is that it offers multiple ways of transferring your files. Connect to the Internet using the wireless LAN or the Ethernet port. Plug a thumb drive into any of the three USB ports. Insert an SD or MMC card into the card reader. The Asus Eee PC 900 even boasts of a 1.3 Megapixel webcam!