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ASUS Eee PC 701 Tested - TechAmok
ASUS Eee PC 701 Tested - [hardware] 06:49 PM EDT - Oct,26 2007 - post a comment
LAPTOP Magazine has published
the first review of the ASUS Eee PC 701. Hit the link and find out why they
say "Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the planet."
No, the Eee PC doesn't do iTunes, but the preloaded Media Player and
decent-sounding speakers get the job done. The device played MP3s and WMAs
stored on a memory card while we surfed the Web, and the built-in mic performed
admirably when making Skype calls. The Eee PC also did a nice job handling
MPEG-4 videos captured by a 720p Sanyo Xacti camcorder and stored on an SD Card;
the video looked surprisingly smooth on the seven-inch display. The Photo
Manager took its sweet time loading large image files, however. Overall, the
Media Player app looks positively crude compared to Windows Media Center and
Apple's Front Row, so a makeover is certainly in order.
Getting online with the Eee PC 701 via Wi-Fi was pretty painless; once you set
up a profile and enter the encryption key, the notebook will automatically
connect to that network the next time you boot up. Although surfing wasn't quite
as zippy as it is on our ThinkPad, it was still plenty fast. The device had no
problems handling Web 2.0 sites powered by Ajax technology (like Netvibes) or
Flash (YouTube). We encountered a screen-resolution issue with the new Yahoo
Mail, but we still got it to work.
Overall performance was pretty snappy, even though this machine uses a Celeron
processor. Most apps loaded quickly, and the 512MB of RAM is more than
sufficient for an operating system with such little overhead. A mere 4GB of
storage space tells you that the Eee PC isn't going to be your primary digital
media vault out of the box, but you can easily augment that capacity with an
external drive. Plus, that 4GB solid state drive can withstand being dropped by
Junior.
Speaking of external devices, the Eee PC did an excellent job recognizing all
sorts of peripherals, from a Kingston USB drive to a USB dongle for a Logitech
wireless mouse. When we plugged in a Casio Exilim camera, the Eee PC asked us if
we wanted to open the images in the File Manager or Photo Manager. Not
surprisingly, the device wouldn't load music from our iPhone, but the Eee PC did
charge it.
Eee PC owners will be pleasantly surprised with how well this tiny machine can
double as a desktop replacement. We connected the device to a 20-inch ViewSonic
monitor and used the built-in utility to scale the resolution up to 1024 x 768
pixels, and the resulting picture was nice and sharp. The Eee PC also instantly
recognized a full-sized Dell USB keyboard and a wired Logitech USB mouse.
This notebook lasted the rated 3.5 hours of battery life on our tests. That's
not nearly as good as the five-plus hours of endurance offered by the best
ultraportable notebooks. Those machines tend to cost $2,000, however. Bonus: The
Eee PC's power adapter is even smaller than what most notebooks in this weight
class ship with; it's not much bigger than a cell phone charger.
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