Navigation: The lapop runs on a version of Linux and has tabs for internet, work, learn, play, settings and favourites.
Internet: This is a very good laptop for internet browsing, as has mozilla Firefox and a very fast inbuilt wireless capability.The computer holds, on one of its main pages, icons which take you to igoogle, wikipedia, web mail and a world clock, internet usage has been integrated very well into this machine. However if you don't have a wireless router in your home or access when traveling I don't see the point in getting such a small laptop. Also you will find a messenger and skype (never got the messenger to work), not as easy as msn messenger.
Work: I found this laptop very good for doing work on, with documents, spreadsheets and presentations on open office software, able to be saved as microsoft word documents. Mail can be used easily to transport work from computer to computer, and an easy navigable document save interface is helpful. However the 4G fills up quickly if your saving all of your work on the flash drive,I suggest buying either an SD card or like I did an external hard drive.
Learn: The learn tabs are helpful for school children, teaching them of constellations and the periodic table, but it also good for students like me with software to draw graphs using f(x)= and a certain function.
Play: First of all this is not a laptop to buy for an avid gamer, it is not a gaming laptop. It has some nice, simple games like crack attack and frozen bubble which are good if your really bored. On this tab a really good music and video player if found, voice recorder and web cam. The web cam is 3000 pixels and found on the top of the laptop. The quality of the camera isn't great, but good for messenger which is already software on the asus.
Settings: This is where software can be updated and installed from the internet. You've also got the ability to install printers, change time and anti virus settings. The laptop also has a voice activated control which needs to be enabled, and works about 60% of the time and certainly isn't perfect.
Overall i think this is a good laptop for specific purpose of high internet utilisation, and able to get on with limited extra instillations (unless you install windows), a small typing pad and no cd drive. Its great for web browsing and work, not great for gaming. I would buy this, but try and get the higher internal memory or buy an external hard drive, the material made with looks slightly tacky in white, I would go for the black. Its a good cheap laptop, maybe good as a first laptop for a child (OLPC substitute), or as a second computer.
Callum Kemp
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Advantages: Cheap, very portable, good connectivity, well-organised OS Disadvantages: Some Wifi trouble under Linux, limited internal storage, unrepsonsive spacebar
tjghendriks 10.04.2008 (10.04.2008)
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