Asus' Eee PC 701 gets reviewed, adored

"Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the planet." Sure, you could stop right there if you'd like, but where's the fun in that? Laptop Mag was able to get their paws around an Asus Eee PC 701, and while you may not think a meager 900MHz Intel Celeron processor could stir up all sorts of jubilant emotions, apparently it still can. Reviewers made no bones about the machine's lack of raw horsepower, and it did make sure to knock Asus for releasing a machine with webcam drivers "on the way," but despite the rough edges, the wee 701 was deemed a great choice for the novice PC user or someone scouting a secondary machine. Notably, the Eee PC 701 isn't apt to make just anyone smile, but if you're interested in finding out if such a device would work for you, be sure and give the read link a bit of your time.

[dark star Posted Oct 25th 2007 10:50PM]

this or the n800. tempting!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2007 11:02PM]

PCS RULE AND UNLIKE APPLE THEY ARE NOT COMPLETLY OVERPRICED AND THEY DONT LIE VIA THEIR COMMERCIALS GO ON YOUTUBE AND LOOK AT ADEADRAT HE MAKES SUM PRETTY COOL FILMS THAT WILL SHOW U ABOUT THIS

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1gJXO3aqGxQ- a particularly good one
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lAkBzVZcFK8


some of his other vids
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lAkBzVZcFK8

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2007 11:10PM]

OH REEELY?........KEWLL!!!!!!!

[rifraf Posted Oct 26th 2007 2:03PM]

Hey bob,, I've noticed a trend with your posts, they're the lowest ranked posts out there. I believe you might want to reconsider posting from your butt...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2007 11:02PM]

I get the size, and I get the packaging (well, someone's gotta make a white computer now that Apple's all but abandoned the color).

Put an easy-to-use OS on it that I can hand to my 6 year old daughter or 70 year old father and you have a winner.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 25th 2007 11:35PM]

It can install Ubuntu 7.10.

But because the screen is only 800*480, many buttons can't show up.
So we can oly "image" (use another PC to see the install guide and guess what is chosed) and use TAB/Enter to complete the install.

Wireless card can't be find after install Ubuntu 7.10.
Someone says that "Ndiswrapper+XP driver" can solve it.
I'll try later.

And it (eee PC) is sold on 10/16 in Taiwan already.

[Sublime865 Posted Oct 25th 2007 11:11PM]

Vista is Ballmer's way of throwing chairs at people he can't reach.


You are now my hero. That has to be the truest statement I have ever read. I don't normally thank people for making me fall out of my chair, but Thank you! haha

[Rensato Posted Oct 25th 2007 11:41PM]

Erm... It sounds extremely expensive... O_o

I think I could get something a lot better for that amount of money...

[melloncollie128 Posted Oct 26th 2007 12:03AM]

Please don't go on about how you can get a faster laptop with a bigger screen for the same price.
You're beating a dead horse.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2007 1:30AM]

you guys are forgetting that this is a response to NicNeg's OLPC. This is the next step to putting a device in the hands of every grade 7-12 student.

[Rensato Posted Oct 26th 2007 1:33AM]

@melloncollie I didn't say laptop... just something better xD
and... wasn't the whole idea behind the eee pcs about them being really cheap laptops?

[jbond Posted Oct 26th 2007 3:43AM]

Pass the duct tape. I want on with a USB hard drive, USB GPS and solar panel.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 26th 2007 1:46PM]

If all you are doing is booting up linux and staring at it i'm sure it will be fast enough.

But seriously, Linux apps aren't that much faster or even slower than windows counterparts on the same hardware.

Try running open office on this shitter, good luck.

They should ship it with a mobile optimized NT 4 with Office 95 or something that could actually perform well.

[Benson Posted Oct 26th 2007 9:58AM]

OOo is great for MSO compatibility, but performance emulates that of MSO as well:
Dead. Slow.
I would not run OOo on here much, if at all. Abiword, Gnumeric get decent compatibility, and are much snappier. And if I need OOo, given a WiFi link, I'll ssh/vnc to my desktop.

[majortom1981 Posted Oct 26th 2007 7:57AM]

For a pc with those specs isnt that a little expensive? With a couple of coupons I can get a cheap vostro from dell for that price.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 7:37PM]

@Benson
Thanks for the correction. The n800 OS is still proprietary (as with various incompatibilities between all the *nix flavors floating around, that's kind of inevitable when you have open source software and the whole world is adding and changing stuff) and there aren't a lot of apps you can put on it. I know it runs linux but it is no way easy to switch to another os and there's always a chance of bricking. As for the memory, you're absolutely correct as I've missed the fact that n800 does indeed support SDHC (I also had in mind usb ports and vga which come on EeePC). However, processor and memory speed is still a far cry from even EeePC. It's decent enough for handheld internet browsing if you hold it, but using a BT keyboard simply isn't practical. It does make a pretty decent pmp but still not even close to actual usability EeePC would offer in comparison. I don't have anything against n800/810 and I had an older model which was fun but its usefulness replacing a pc or a pda with build in keyboard wasn't very high. Anyways, thanks for a constructive criticism and no flames.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2007 4:30PM]

i like this laptop

[Joshuab86 Posted Oct 31st 2007 12:36AM]

HEY everyone, I've been hanging out at eeeuser.com following this little beauty.

A couple users uploaded pictures of the interface on the Eee and I built a little Online Test Drive for the Eee.

Check it out at: http://www.honeypothack.com/eee/internet.htm

-Josh

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 6th 2007 10:12PM]

What's the max size memory card (SDHC - i assume this is for ALL EEE models?) one can use in the EEE? I'm new to this whole flash-card thing, sorry.