These are some common tools used to work on this device. You might not need every tool for every procedure. The laptop was available in black or white color schemes and has the dimensions: 8. It features a 1. The series laptop is most commonly identified with its 8. The Asus logo also appears on the laptop's cover and the Eee Series PC logo appears on the laptop's hinge.
While the laptop was light-weight and had decent memory and performance, there was a controversy about battery life. This led to a lot of confusion between the computer's actual and advertised battery life. While XP might not be the most modern operating system on the market, XP is still one of the most robust and stable versions of the Windows OS.
Asus received some criticism over the speakers on the original Eee PC because of there massive size located on both sides of the screen. The bezel around the screen on the Eee PC is much thinner than the thick bezel on the original Eee PC and the speakers have been relocated to the bottom of the notebook.
The keyboard on the Eee PC is very, very compact. This means that passwords get mangled, emails look like gibberish, and playing games that require keyboard commands becomes quite aggravating.
The Eee PC actually has a slightly larger touchpad button which makes it more comfortable to use than the original Eee PC. The touchpad is likewise larger than the touchpad on the original Eee PC and this touchpad also features multi-touch functionality so that you can zoom in or zoom out on things like PDFs in order to view the text more easily.
Overall, the Eee PC is a snappy little budget notebook. The flash-based storage drives on the Eee PC help with the benchmarks since they provide virtually instant data access times. Front: Indicator lights view large image. Rear view: AC power jack view large image.
The keyboard and bottom of the notebook got quite hot even under normal use, and the fan was always running in an attempt to keep the system cool. The only way to tell the fan is blowing is to put your hand next to the air vent to feel the warm air blow past. By using Windows XP, users can sidestep many of the software and hardware compatibility issues that plague the Linux version.
We've encountered numerous devices that don't work with a Linux Eee because of driver issues, including some USB disc drives, printers and TV tuners. You simply don't get these problems with a Windows-equipped Eee PC It's a fair concern that Windows XP could adversely affect the laptop's performance.
The Microsoft operating system is theoretically more corpulent than Linux, and is likely to put more of a strain on the components. However, we've nothing but good news to report in this area. We spent some time analysing the Eee PC Win's battery life, but discovered some unusual anomalies during that process. We will update this review with final battery scores once we have completed our benchmarks.
We understand fully why it has done this, but we can't say we're happy about sacrificing nearly 50 per cent of storage just to have Windows XP. It's good -- but it's not that good. One significant drawback with using Windows XP is that the graphical user interface is far tricker to get to grips with than the Linux GUI.
The Linux edition has logically arranged tab group labeled 'Internet', 'work', 'learn', 'play', 'settings' and 'favourites', each of which contain relevant application icons. Windows, in contrast, is more confusing -- particularly for anyone who isn't very experienced with a computer. It's no surprise to learn that the XP version doesn't ship with as many useful applications as the Linux edition. Applications such as OpenOffice and Skype don't come as standard, and although you can install these apps yourself, it would have been comforting to have them sitting there ready for use straight out of the box.
The other drawbacks with the Windows version of the Eee PC are identical to those of the Linux model.
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