Product Description

Share photos of your travels without waiting till you get home. Shop the world wide web without attaching any lines or wires. Learn through the latest technology without a technical manual. Play, relax, and entertain on the go with shock-proof design. Connect with friends and family with just a few clicks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80500 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Asus
• Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, 3.94 pounds

Features

• 7" compact design and only weighing 0.92kg
• Durable, shock-proof solid-state design with 4GB hard drive
• Rich network and wireless connectivity (built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g)
• Operating System : Linux, Windows XP compatible
• Surf Version

Customer Reviews

asus Eee PC 701 4GB
Bought this tiny laptop for use while travelling. Its very affordable and easy to use. It uses Linux rather than windows which I have found perfectly good. I set it up for internet using my mobile broadband and it works very well. The disc doesnt have a lot of space so store bulky stuff on the 8GB SD card that I bought and leave slotted in.
If you want a cheap easy to use little notebook to do e mails and surf the net, look at photos etc then this is great. It has built in wifi, webcam and speakers. Absolutely love this little thing.

Good, But Not Great
This is a fun wee machine that looks like a toy but isn't, although there are important compromises to bear in mind.

You get portability and rugged reliability at the expense of

*Memory - only 512mb of RAM and 4gb of solid state storage (no hard drive), of which about half is used by the Linux installation.
* Minority OS - the installed Linux OS will be an utter mystery to most people.
* Speed - the 900mz processor combined with the solid state drive (based on Flash RAM) means that this isn't the fastest machine there is.
* Screen real estate - yes, the screen looks cute, but the native 800x640 resolution does cause problems, even though there is an 800x600 "point and push" option.
* Small keyboard - touch typists will hate it, the rest of us will adapt.
* No optical drive - making upgrading or changing the OS and installing software somewhat tricky.

The installed Linux Xandros OS is tab and icon based, keeping things simple for those who want a standalone solution on the move. But if you want to network this with your XP or Vista home PC to share files and printers you will need to change the OS, and for that you will need an external optical drive.

There is now a version available with XP pre-installed for about £30 extra. That version comes with a mouse, MS Works and MS Live.

I have two of these machines - one that came with Xandros, and one with XP. I installed XP on the Xandros machine without any real problems, but this does require that you have a legitimate copy of Service Pack 2 XP. There's a useful wee application called nLite which helped me enormously with the installation.

The machine will run games up to the graphical level of the likes of Half Life 2, but the performance will depend upon the speed of the additional high speed HD memory card you are going to want pretty soon. That 4gb gets eaten up very quickly.

The web cam is very basic, and the sound recording from the built in mic on both of the models I have was terrible. Headset required for Skype.

Having said all of that, and pointed out the pitfalls, I think this is a great wee machine. It appeals to those who want an instant cheap solution out of the box, as well as to those who want to tinker (that's me!)

There are a few more of these sub or micro notebooks on the horizon. Look out for bigger screen sizes and faster processors, but in the meantime, this is a great buy.

Great for kids.
Great little laptop. Bought for my 8 year old daughter and she has not been of it.

Webcam, fast internet, wifi and a host of features. The learning section is great.

Would recommend to anyone starting out with computers as it is easy to use and set up. Has all you need.