ASUS Eee PC 4G - Celeron M 353 900 MHz - 7" TFT

Advantages: Cheap, very portable, good connectivity, well-organised OS
Disadvantages: Some Wifi trouble under Linux, limited internal storage, unrepsonsive spacebar

The Eee PC is one of the greatest pieces of kit I have ever bought, and at the low price of around £230 you cannot go wrong. It's compact form factor was the main selling point for me, as it gives me the ability to work on the train without adding any considerable weight to my bag. The Unit The Eee PC is a few centimetres larger than a DVD case in each dimension in terms of footprint at around 23x17cm. It's around 3cm thick. The left hand side ...
...microphone socket and a headphone socket, as well as the exhaust fan duct. The right hand side features an SDHC-compatible SD card slot, two USB 2.0 ports, a standard monitor port and a Kensington-style security slot. The back only has the socket for the power cable. When the laptop is opened up it reveals a 7'' screen (resolution of 800x480) stereo speakers flanking the screen, a VGA webcam above the screen, a full QWERTY keyboard and a mouse touchpad. ... Read review

Advantages: fast internet connection (inbuilt wireless)
Disadvantages: simple games, low memory

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 ...
...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 ... Read review

Advantages: Price, easy to use, very portable, good features
Disadvantages: Size, over-heating battery.

...expert on broadband, email and web surfing. If we'd bought her a Windows PC I doubt any of this would have been possible. So whatever my doubts as an experienced computer user, this Asus has opened up a vast world to my mother for which we are both extremely grateful! ... Read review

Advantages: battery life, easy to use, quick to start, alright quality webcam
Disadvantages: small hardrive

...have a look at the asus eee wiki (http://wiki.eeeuser.com/) which will help you install new programs etc. Battery life is amazing i have the smaller battery and can get 3 hours or more out of it even with wifi. The only bad thing is the amount of storage. The 4GB harddrive just isnt enough for me but this can be combated by adding a SD/MMC/SDHC card into the slot which works fine for me. As for portability there are no issues there its so small and ... Read review