http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/ Engadget Comments for ASUS Eee PC S101 reviewed: sexy, but not worth the premium http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 25th 2008 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
Won't SOMEONE think of the ECONOMY????

Odd to see it on a tech blog though.

Dude if you're that worried go be a farmer.
You'll get to eat and you'll also be too busy to post asinine comments on tech blogs.]]>Oct 25th 2008 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
lol, I can totally see some parent going

"finish your plate. Think of the starving economy in Africa"]]>Oct 25th 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 26th 2008 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
Apple I guess deserves what they got because they sure have some loyal customers that most other companies don't have. Not sure what they did as a company, but I with my company was that successful lol.

Pay a premium price just for looks haha no thanks.]]>Oct 24th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
Anyways no there really is not that much difference between other laptops other than looks with Apple. Sure you get a metal case, but who cares.

Computers are not worth spending extra for the shell because they get outdated to fast.]]>Oct 24th 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
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Why has this never been a headline?]]>Oct 24th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
I'm not trying to be a fanboy here (I use both a Mac and a PC for different purposes), but there are a good number of factors why they would be worth the premium. Among them are...

1) Operating system. Making a Hackintosh still isn't something the average user is capable of doing, and OS X most definitely has its strengths. Namely, ease-of-use, little to no worrying about ad/spy/malware, stability (though Windows has come a long ways in this regard), etc.
2) Industrial design. Which I suppose is a more professional way of saying "sexiness", but some of it isn't just for looks. The MagSafe power connector and the magnetic latch, for example.
3) Customer support. Apple tops customer satisfaction surveys on a regular basis for a reason. Honestly, they're the best company I've ever dealt with over the phone.
4) Apple's pro applications - namely, Logic and Final Cut. Each is one of the best applications in their respective fields, and each is Mac-only. I may have switched to Windows if Logic wasn't so damned good.

A Mac netbook would easily be worth $699 to me because of the above factors. If they made a netbook, I'm confident that it would be one of the most well-designed and solid netbooks in existence.

That said, they're not perfect. Leaving out Firewire on the MacBook was an example of needlessly poor judgment. I could go on, but you get my point.

$ killall MacDefenseForce
$ shutdown -h now]]>Oct 24th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
I enjoy the BSD UNIX part of os x, and all the open source projects. I love the ultra-nerdy crap... and not so much gaming. Thats why I use a Mac... to each his own!

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It's not "OMG lol maks are like different lol stop screaming macs lol."]]>Oct 24th 2008 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
Except in this case, Engadget's summarizing the opinions of the review in the article. They're not the ones bashing it: in fact, previous Engadget posts about the S101 have praised it.]]>Oct 24th 2008 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
"Apple is not going to enter the fash MP3 player market"

"Apple have no plans of going into the Mobile Phone market"


The iNetBook is probably right now getting the finishing touch...
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(Both the Dell and this)]]>Oct 24th 2008 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
Why, just why? I've never heard a complaint about the ENTER key being difficult to press because it's in a single row.]]>Oct 24th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 25th 2008 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 25th 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
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da na na na]]>Oct 24th 2008 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 25th 2008 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
Id rather have a mediocre notebook than a premium netbook! There, I said it.]]>Oct 24th 2008 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
Go on then, your choice.]]>Oct 25th 2008 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
And Apple products quite often do have build quality and looks to justify the premium, especially when it's a new concept and not yet a commodity.]]>Oct 27th 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/Oct 24th 2008 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
BTW that root-beer brown colored one is hot...]]>Oct 25th 2008 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/asus-eee-pc-s101-reviewed-sexy-but-not-quite-stellar/
More than that, though, design is more than just how something looks. Typing this from the new Aluminum MacBook, the way it looks from a purely aesthetic point of view is one of the smallest improvements. The way it feels is far more important.

Of course, there are always going to be tech-heads who are unable of comprehending the value of a computer outside of how much RAM or HDD space it has. There's nothing wrong with this; nobody is forcing them to appreciate Apple's -- or Sony's, or VooDoo's, or any other premium, fashionable, "lifestyle" or whateve you want to call it brand -- computers.

"Wouldnt every Apple laptop be paying for the looks not specs, you could buy another laptop thats got the same specs for half the price. But then you couldnt hump it cus it doesnt have an apple vagine on the outside,"

There is more to Apple than just looks. There is a feel to the computer. A computer is a machine that we will spend countless hours using; there is more importance based on it than just how big the numbers are!

I am a Mac user, but I force that on no one. Everyone should feel free to purchase whatever computing experience functions best for them. However, stop being so naive as to say that Apple's premium is just about aesthetics; there is more to design than looks, and there will always be a group of people willing to pay more for beauty and elegance. So just let it be and enjoy your Compaq or HP or Dell or whathaveyou. You've found your fit. Let people enjoy theirs.]]>Oct 25th 2008 1:47AM