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The new ASUS Eee PC, a $499 ultra-portable notebook computer that’s changing the way we think about computing, computers, and what they cost, i
The Eee runs Xandros Linux instead of Windows and a range of free and open source software, although you can load Windows XP onto it if you want, with ASUS offering a downloadable set of XP drivers available from their website.
Pre-loaded with onto the Eee and working ‘out of the box’, you can surf the Net with Firefox, do email with Thunderbird, work on Office documents with ‘Open Office’, talk and even videoconference with Skype using the inbuilt 1.3 megapixel webcam and Skype – and more.
It comes with a 4GB flash drive – but an SD HC (high capacity) socket that can take SDHC cards of up to 32GB – and 3 USB 2.0 ports into which you can plug hard disks and flash drives into gives you unlimited storage options.
Plug the Eee PC into a regular keyboard, mouse and monitor – and you can work as though you were at a normal desktop computer.
On sale at Office Works for $488, and with upgraded versions on the way later in 2008, the era of the truly cheap, yet surprisingly powerful computer has finally arrived – and it’s just the beginning
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