Asus Eee PC 4G XP Notebook - White

Asus Eee PC 4G XP Notebook - White

Published April 27, 2009 at 07:04:34 AM, by Thai Tan

Short Review: The Improved Asus Eee PC 4G XP Notebook

As the front liner in the world of netbooks, Asus’ first offering, the Eee PC 701 series was well-accepted. But with the Eee PC 4G XP notebook in white, we find out that there are additional good things about it on the inside. In a nutshell, the best features of the Eee PC 4G XP netbook is:
• Size – it’s still small enough to fit in most of your bags without weighing it down.
• Inexpensive – price point still borders on affordable

But with this comes some shortcomings as well, namely:
• Cramped keyboard – Asus did not make any changes to this carpal tunnel-inducing keyboard of theirs, along with the “pecking” method of typing users usually end up making.
• No price adjustments – The Linux version and the Windows XP version did not differ in price, given that there is a vast amount of difference between the two.

Quick Specs of the Eee PC 4G XP: Intel Celeron M Processor (630 MHz), 512 MB RAM DDR2 SDRAM, 4G Solid State Device.

Looks

There really is not much to say about the looks of the Eee PC 4G XP because the major improvement is on the inside. Having said that, you will not be surprised to find the smallish keyboard, the loud-clicking mouse pad and the cramped LCD monitor on this computer. Everything is exactly like the Eee PC 701. There were no improvements in terms of stereo tinny sounds as well. But for the sake of portability you can also say that in other situations, the old design would seem fit for the use of it.

System

The older Asus Eee PC was the 701 – a nifty little computing machine that you could bring out whenever wherever, was pretty fast. Boot up time for the Linux-based predecessor of the Eee PC 4G XP was roughly twenty seconds. This is because the simple free software made such a thing possible, but with the inclusion of a Windows XP-based operating system on the Eee PC 4G XP tests show that boot-up time was at around thirty five to fifty seconds. With an Intel Celeron processor powering the Eee PC 4G XP, it is not too much of an issue when it comes to boot up and opening several windows at the same time. It would have been better with an Intel Atom processor – but this grandfatherly netbook still gets the job done no matter what. Add to this the fact that you can only do so much with 4 gigabytes of SSD, unless you are willing to invest in a high-capacity SD card for bigger storage.

Overall, the low-cost Eee PC 4G XP is more widely accepted thanks to the introduction of the Windows XP operating system into it. With portability at your fingertips, you can surf the Web and extend your basic productivity beyond what Linux’s Open Office can offer. For a second laptop, the Eee PC 4G XP is looking mighty good.

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