Friday, December 19, 2008

the smallest laptop -IN THE WORLD

I have an "EEE PC" by Asus. It's really not that exciting. But you would think otherwise.
Let me explain.
A year or so ago, when we had money ( or at least weren't in the middle of the economy breakdown), my fiancee and I went to the PC Micro Center on a search. Our search was fall really small laptops. He wanted to use his on the train to work, and in general. I wanted a laptop I could take notes in class with, and could bring to the library, or Starbucks, or wherever, and it wouldn't be heavy. We found an awesome machine (in fact I'm typing on it right now) the EEE PC. The investment was well worth it, and not very expensive either (considering that it is a laptop).
Most laptops are at least six hundred dollars, at the very least, for full-sized laptops. We got ours (his black, mine white, we are big dorks I know) for three-hundred fifty dollars each.
I know what you are thinking-WOW, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
Well, it is. And as I explain to many a fellow Starbucks customer, every time I use it, or at the library, or at MSU, here's the deal-
I wouldn't use it as my only laptop, because there isn't a ton of memory ( I usually use stick drives when I work).
I wouldn't put music on it (I don't think the contents of your IPOD would fit).
I have uploaded pictures on it using my camera and a card and it worked really well, but then I made sure that they weren't saved on the computer, because it would take up too much space.
It is the most convenient thing ever ( I take it with me everywhere!)
It allows me not to have to buy a crackberry, or any of those phone things where you can be reached 24/7.
The computer runs Linux, so it is not Microsoft and has none of its programs, so you don't have to pay for all the Bill Gates licensing crap.
However, it has free software on it, already installed called "openoffice" which allows you to do all the microsoft like programs and save them in other forms, for example,
I do a doc. in openoffice/writer
and save it in word, and it's almost the exact same product.
They have the same thing for excel, adobe,powerpoint etc.
The internet is hook up or wifi, just like a normal laptop.
So, you may be wondering- why is she telling us all of this?
Well, every single time I go out someone asks me about it. Whether it is a 13 year old, who thinks it's a MAC because it's white, or a 72 year old who wants to try computers for the first time, I explain it again and again.
I just really should guide them all to this post. I mean if they already have a computer. But seriously, if you are looking for an easy to use, lightweight (2lb), affordable laptop, get on the EEEPC train! I also hear that Acer has one as well, but don't know much about it . ..

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