| Asus Eee PC sails into Australia in December |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 01 November 2007 | |
  
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This is all very nice but isn't the main point of having one thesethings for lifestyle purposes. So what if you want to watch movies on aplane? No DVD player and only 4GB of storage. With only a 7 inch screen, you probably wouldn't be using one of theselittle darlings at home to surf the net or for doing your homeworkwould you?. It's not even for taking away on holidays because a realnotebook can be used for that. No this baby notebook is for taking withyou on the run - at least that's what Asus is telling us. “Applications on PCs today are mostly online, whether it is checkingemails and communicating via other methods such as instant messaging orvoice over IP, utilising online share spaces, or simply reading news.Being online has now become a big part of daily computing operationsfor work and fun, for young and old," says Ted Chen, Managing Directorof ASUS Australia. But can't we already do those things and more on the run using an AppleiPhone and a growing range of similar devices? Oh, but the Eee PC alsogives users the option to run Windows Vista. Running Windows Vista on a lightweight PC with 512MB of RAM, a 900MHzCeleron processor and 4GB of storage. Now that I would like to see - ormaybe not! |
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