Review : Asus EEE, the laptop that changed everything
20 March, 2008
The screen resolution is not ideal - a width of 1024 is the minimum nowadays to navigate the web correctly and having a built in zoom in/out function (like for the sound) would have been welcomed.
One reviewer in particular suggests that Opera (even mobile Opera) would have been a better option because it does offer a few tricks that Firefox is still lacking; it is quicker, has a zoom function and has a smaller memory footprint.
Connecting wirelessly to the web is a doodle if you have a - spot or a wireless router nearby.
As the Register puts it rightly though, the fact that there are two separate icons in the taskbar for all your network connections though adds to confusion.
I could get roughly two and a half hours of typing and surfing the net using the wireless capabilities of the EEE.
However, trying to charge the EEE and work at the same time won't do your battery any good. In a non-scientific test, it took my test EEE almost three hours to get the battery charged to two sticks while I was typing away this review which is simply unacceptable.
Shutting down the laptop though takes only a few seconds, so does the standby mode.
To bring the EEE back to full working mode from standby, you will have to press on the "start" button again and your working area appears in a matter of seconds. Microsoft, where are thou?
One reviewer in particular suggests that Opera (even mobile Opera) would have been a better option because it does offer a few tricks that Firefox is still lacking; it is quicker, has a zoom function and has a smaller memory footprint.
Connecting wirelessly to the web is a doodle if you have a - spot or a wireless router nearby.
As the Register puts it rightly though, the fact that there are two separate icons in the taskbar for all your network connections though adds to confusion.
I could get roughly two and a half hours of typing and surfing the net using the wireless capabilities of the EEE.
However, trying to charge the EEE and work at the same time won't do your battery any good. In a non-scientific test, it took my test EEE almost three hours to get the battery charged to two sticks while I was typing away this review which is simply unacceptable.
Shutting down the laptop though takes only a few seconds, so does the standby mode.
To bring the EEE back to full working mode from standby, you will have to press on the "start" button again and your working area appears in a matter of seconds. Microsoft, where are thou?
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