Gundamaniac

Looking for a brand new laptop for under $500usd? The Asus EeePC just might be what you’re lookng for. sure, it isn’t the $100 laptop, but still it’s one cool piece of hardware. and like the $100 laptop, this machine uses flash memory instead of a hard drive. and runs on Linux. installing Windows XP can also be done as an option. however the operating system might turn out more expensive than the actual laptop.

anyway, I went down to the regional distributor to check out the laptop. and to my delight, I got to try one out for myself. the laptop is increadibly small and light, about 92kg light. ^^ the machine had 3 usb ports, and an SD card reader. The Linux graphical interface was easy enough to use. The Linux OS runs smoothly on 512mb of ram with an intel celeron centrino processor. however I don’t know if Windows XP would run just as good on it. But if you decide on using the default Linux software, you need not worry since it has a number of software bundled with it as well, including open office for those word documents, excel worksheets, and powerpoint presentations, a number of Games, and some internet softwares like skype, messenger and firefox browser.the only thing missing IMO is a photo editing software like photoshop. (imagine editng images using MS paint). ^^ The tiny 7 inch screen don’t do the laptop any favors as well. then again it is a minor concern given the price you pay for the laptop. This laptop retails for about 19000php or $422usd, but folks would probably be able to find one for a lot less. the cheapest I found was about 16200php, that’s $360usd.