Asus eee pc...the notebook killer?

Have you heard about Asus EEE PC ? It's a small lightweight notebook that becomes popular nowadays. Why is it so popular? Maybe because of it's affordable price - just $400.

For Asian people, especially Indonesian people whose salary are really low, saving money to buy their dream notebook is very difficult. So when the news of Asus eee pc is out, people in Indonesia are very curious of it. They expect that they can use it as their main mobile pc, for doing their work and entertainment.

Well, if I must say, Asus eee pc is really nice. The design is superb, except for the low resolution of display lcd being used. But as a technical engineer, I'm really disappointed of how small the storage in it. 2 GB, 4 GB, even 8 GB are just not enough for me.

But for most people, who will use Asus eee pc only for surfing the internet or making office documents or maybe playing some games in order to kill the time, Asus eee pc maybe is the right choice.

Why do I say that? I list some of good points of this product below :

1. It's very light, below 1 kilos
2. It's also very small and compact
3. It's come with wifi - this is definetely a major point
4. It's very cheap too, if we compare it to a real notebook in the market
5. The storage used is solid storage disk type which is claimed as shock proof

The weak points I found is :

1. The display resolution is very small so that we have to do a lot of scrolling
2. The operating system bundled is Linux
3. The softwares bundled are GPL's software. It means that there are no commercial support

But if you ask me : would I like to buy it? I would say no :P.

Because my work as technical engineer make me need more powerful beast than Asus eee pc ;)

And beside that, I have fall in love with my Toshiba with its elegant windows blue screen LOL..

As closing note, I would say that Asus eee pc is an awesome product but it cannot replace the role of real notebook. For ladies and kids, and even for men who will utilize their mobile pc for surfing the internet and doing small things for killing the time while they are away, this product maybe suits them.

Wanna try one?