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Asus’ Eee PC 701 reviwed by Laptop Mag

LAPTOP reviewed the new Asus Eee PC 701 andhere’s what they thought about it:four out of five stars and an Editors’ Choice award. Not bad, huh?

There will be many who say that for $400 you could buy a full-sized basic laptop running Vista and that to spend the same amount of money on this thing would be downright foolish.

But the first three sentences of LAPTOP’s review say it all;

“This past weekend a circular advertised a Vista-powered laptop equipped with a Celeron processor, 14.1-inch display, an 80GB hard drive, and a DVD drive for only $399. For the same price, the Asus Eee PC offers the same amount of RAM and Celeron processor but a smaller seven-inch display, a measly 4GB of storage space, and no DVD drive. And yet there’s no way we would give up this two-pound wonder for a ‘regular’ notebook.”

LAPTOP says that the Eee is “ten times simpler to use than any Windows machine, starts up twice as fast (no crapware!), and is only about a fifth of the cost of other systems in its weight class.” Moreover, They liked the Linux-based interface, the small-but-not-too-small form factor, the included software applications, “snappy” performance, and peripheral support.

All in all the device is seen excellent secondary computer for households with children, and a quite good primary computer for novice PC users who never had the time or patience to master an operating system.

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