Product Description

Easy to Learn, Easy to work and Easy to play!!! 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. Mobility & Reliability ? At half the size of regular notebooks and weighing less than 1kg, you can take the Eee PC anywhere. ? Bumps and shocks are no longer issues. With a dependable solid-state disk, you get unparalleled shock-protection and reliability. ? Power-efficient design provides longer operating time when on the go. Ease & Technology ? With a rapid start-up time, the Eee PC is always ready to get into action. ? No technical manual required with the specially designed, user-friendly and intuitive graphic interface . Work & Connectivity ? You?re always connected with built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g that automatically detects and connects to the Internet at any hotspot. ? The Eee PC includes the documents and the e-mails software, and a suite of other productivity software to help keep you on track. ? Upload photos and videos and share them instantly on Flickr or YouTube without waiting till you get home. Media & Entertainment ? Enjoy music and videos with extensive support for a wide range of digital multimedia. ? Log on to Skype or other network, and you can connect with friends anywhere, anytime. ? Clear up wire clutter with the built-in card reader, webcam, speakers, and microphone.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11991 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Asus
• Model: EEEPC2GS-W001
• Released on: 2008-01-22
• Platform: Linux
• Dimensions: 2.03 pounds

Features

• Operating System - Linux Xandros + KDE graphics interface -- Included Accessories - Sleeve, power adapter, battery
• Processor - Celeron M Ultra Low Voltage @ 630 MHz -- Hard drive - 2 GB SSD -- Video Card - Intel GMA900
• Memory Card Reader - MMC / SDHC memory card reader -- USB - 3 USB 2.0 ports -- Modem/Ethernet Port - 10/100 Mb Ethernet port -- WLAN - WiFi 802.11 b/g
• Size - 22.5 x 16.4 x 2.15~3.5 cm -- Weight - 0.92 kg
• Included Software - OpenOffice 2.0, Firefox, Skype

Manufacturer's 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.

Mobility & Reliability; At 7" and weighing only 0.92kg, you can take the Eee PC anywhere.; Bumps and shocks are no longer issues. With a dependable solid-state disk, you get unparalleled shock-protection and reliability.;Power-efficient design provides longer operating time when on the go.

Ease & Technology; With a rapid start-up time, the Eee PC is always ready to get into action.;No technical manual required with the specially designed, user-friendly and intuitive graphic interface.

Work & Connectivity;You´re always connected with built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g that automatically detects and connects to the Internet at any hotspot;The Eee PC includes the documents and the e-mails software, and a suite of other productivity software to help keep you on track;Upload photos and videos and share them instantly on Flickr or YouTube without waiting till you get home.

Media & Entertainment;Enjoy music and videos with extensive support for a wide range of digital multimedia;Log on to Skype or other network, and you can connect with friends anywhere, anytime;Clear up wire clutter with the built-in card reader, speakers, and microphone.

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Customer Reviews

Very nice, ultra-portable laptop
This is an excellent little laptop. In fact, "laptop" is maybe not the word - it's almost too small to fit well on my lap. Extremely handy for travelling.

The pre-installed Xandros OS is nicely optimised for boot speed, so it'll be up and running from cold in about 30 seconds. The packaged software's more than enough for office-type use, web browsing, etc.

I have mine set up to dual-boot, using an Xubuntu installation on an SD card. This works nicely with a little tweaking (boot isn't as fast, but you get more choice of free software from the Ubuntu repositories, and the Linux development tools I'm used to). I understand they can also run Windows XP (and possibly Vista), if you're that way inclined.

No real drawbacks I can think of - the small screen, and inevitably limited data storage space, are part of the spec. of such a device, rather than faults. I find it best to use external flash drives for file storage.

Perhaps my best buy, ever!
I bought the Eee as a second computer, since my regular laptop is just too heavy to be portable. In contrast, the Eee fits in a large handbag and weighs less than a kilo.

Having configured an advanced desktop as opposed to the more personal-organiser-style interface that is the default, I find that the battery life isn't particularly great - but it's pretty rare to be far from a power source for very long, and the Eee has so many features that make up for this.

The screen seems very small at first if you're used to a normal laptop/desktop, but once you're used to it it's perfectly fine even for web browsing and so on. Equally, you may make more typos than usual for a little while as you get used to the keyboard - but it's a million times easier than texting on a phone, and we're all used to that by now!

The preloaded Linux (Xandros) operating system is very easy to use and configure, even for a lifelong Windows user. In fact, it convinced me to make the switch to Linux on my main computer too. The tools available, such as the OpenOffice suite, are comparable to their mainstream counterparts, and can save into standard file formats such as .doc and .xls. Added to this, the machine has the advantage of far more powerful tools for configuration and programming than is available to the average Windows user, and a little research can help you get more out of your computer than you might ever have imagined. There's a ton of free online documentation for both Linux and the Eee specifically, so you're never alone if anything goes wrong. (Which it hasn't for me so far.)

You'll need some extra storage for your files. The SD card slot in the machine means that you can add a few GB of memory which just sits in the machine, and you can add USB devices if you need to.

This is a fantastic machine, and I have been thankful on so many occasions that I bought it.

Best thing I have bought for ages
Its a lovely little laptop, really handy to take around with you. I spend most of y time on it when I am in bed as its so easy and light and searching the web is so much more fun. I have also become hooked on Frozen Bubbles one of the games but I can't get past level 70. A good buy