Do you really need it?

Advantages: Powerful laptop, good value, easily upgradeable, reliable hardware.
Disadvantages: Some extras are unneccessary, built-in speakers are useless, Hard drive can be annoyingly noisy.

...I will note the many luxuries before delving into the serious hardware: 2 GB RAM (up to 4GB supported); 160 GB (subject to upgrading); 8X DVD Super Multi drive; Bluetooth v2.0; Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 802.11 a/b/g/n; 4 x USB 2.0 ports; Built-in 1.3M Pixel video camera; memory card reader (MMC, SD, MS, MS-Pro) and many more little extras make this laptop a formidable champion in the gaming world. Furthermore, bought new this laptop comes with a free optical gaming mouse (Logitech) and a Targus backpack. Now on to the big bad boys: An Intel® Core?2 Duo Processor T7700/T7500/T7300/T7100 : 2.4GHz~1.8GHz, 800MHz, with 4MB/2MB L2 cache makes this a relatively powerful computing tool - obviously with gaming in mind. A 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) TFT-LCD screen makes watching films, viewing photographs, playing games or even just surfing...

666Nemesis666 11.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Asus G1S

ASUS EEE PC 701 - Small but perfectly formed

Advantages: Size, Ease of Use
Disadvantages: Small keyboard, small screen

...This review looks at one of many netbooks to be released in the UK over the past few months, ASUS's EEE PC 701 SD. The model I have is fitted with Windows XP and has an 8Gb hard drive. I bought it on special offer for £155. Appearance The 701SD is absolutely tiny. It weighs around a kilogram and is roughly the same size as a hardback reading book when in the closed position. It comes in a neat box along with instructions,a mains charger, a protective case and a system CD. It has a 7 inch screen which is absolutely tiny but is still perfectly functional. The unit has three USB sockets, headphone and microphone jacks, and SD memory card slot, a small webcam above the screen and a microphone positioned just underneath the keyboard. It has a small touchpad which is small but works in exactly yhte same way as a normal sized laptop...

Future77 27.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Asus Eee PC 701

Asus EEE 4g

Advantages: Small and Portable, Cheap
Disadvantages: Small HD, No CD drive

...Well I just love this laptop. It is everything I want in a laptop. It does have a few minor flaws but the pros totally outweigh them. Appearance This laptop is a great looking laptop. Only the size of an A5 notepad, it is small and yet it still manages to look smart yet fun. I chose the baby blue cover for my asus eee but any colour looks just as good. Inside, the layout is neat and tidy with reasonable sized keys for this small laptop. The sides of the laptop look clean in simple as is to be expected with a small laptop like this. Without a CD drive, it allows more room for the 3 USB ports and SD slot allowing the back of the laptop to be left clear bar the power port. Overall, a great looking laptop. Function With such a small hard drive of only 4gb and a small amount of memory of 512mb, this laptop surprised...

Jammie1000000 21.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Asus Eee PC 701

Pocket sized portability with the Asus Eee Pc 701

Advantages: Price, size, portability
Disadvantages: Processor power, memory capacity

...The ASUS EEE PC 701 model is an extremely affordable, small and portable netbook with a 7" screen and built in wifi card designed primarily for internet use. The standard model comes with a built in 2 gigabyte solid state hard drive and comes in a variety of colours and finishes ranging from matt white through to pastel pink. The white ones are probably your best bet as in my opinion they are slightly more stylish, echoing shades of the Macbook Air. The EEE PC comes with a built in microphone on all models and webcam on most models and runs on a Linux based operating system although it can be configured to run on a Windows based system. Windows based versions are planned for release by the company shortly. The Linux distribution is extremely stable with a Windows like user interface although for those not quite used to Linux you...

milliontoone 25.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Asus Eee PC 701

Are ASUS Eee PCs worth the Money?

Advantages: Good battery life, Good specifications, Wireless N and Bluetooth
Disadvantages: Better netbooks available, Poor webcam

...not fit into the screen. On top of that, the keyboard would be difficult to type with and funnily enough, battery life is worse because the battery would be smaller. Not only that, but I also saw some YouTube videos with comparisons between the SSD and HDD version. The SSD, although in theory should be faster, the HDD version out performed the SSD version (People say Asus uses cheap SSD drives to keep the cost down) so performance was another factor that got me to choose this particular model in the range. The 1GB of RAM also seemed appropriate. MY OPINION At first, I thought it looked pretty cool but on closer inspection, I've concluded that it's not the prettiest thing in the world despite having mine in a nice pearl white colour. For a start, the Eee logo on the top of the lid is rather ugly and spoils it a bit...

Deru 14.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of ASUS Eee PC 1000H

Asus Xonar D1 - move over creative, your time is up.

Advantages: cheap, works in vista, does the job far better than the competition, optical output!
Disadvantages: limited inputs (see review)

...The souncard market has never really been swamped with options. For those of us who don't use onboard sound and demand a seperate sound card for our sorround sound/gaming/music needs theres never been much choice. Most people go with Creative as they are well known and apparently respectable. I did just that a few years ago, it was a mistake. Their driver and customer support, especially for Windows Vista users is seriously lacking. I was finding my games locking up, my computer suffering from fatal errors (aka Blue Screens of Death) and just general sound issues that were hindering my enjoyment. Research soon showed that the creative card was to blame. As a result i threw my old creative soundcard in the bin and opted for something new, the Asus Xonar D1. Simple, small and effective. Asus's card supports Vista and its drivers are...

AgeUK 27.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of ASUS Xonar D1

Small ASUS, Large features

Advantages: GPS, HDMI, eSATA
Disadvantages: loud cooler

...antenna, HDMI output, eSATA connector to plig-in an external disc. So, as I wrote there are only 3 USB ports, but apart from that everything else is very good. HDMI is a step forward and eSATA is great option for extensive disk space with very fast speed. U3S is small notebook 318x243x32 and weight only 1.82kg. Power adapter is bigger and has 488g. Keyboard is silver with black lables. With Fn you can switch display mods, camera, VoIP, WWW browser, mail client, wsitch WiFi/BT, turn sleep mode on, adjust brightness, adjust volume and activate/deactivate touchpad. Touchpad is well built since it does nothing when writing on keyboard. The buttons a bit harder and between them is fingerprint reader. Notebook has got Core2 Duo T7500 and therefore the tests are not bad at all: Single-Thread mode test of calculations with fixed point...

hauran 19.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of ASUS U3S 3P092E

ASUS P320 HANDS-ON REVIEW

Advantages: GPS, WIFI,Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, TouchScreen, WM 6.1
Disadvantages: 200 Mhz CPU, Battery life, Look

...Asus P320 PDA cum Smartphone Review: First to start with, its really a superb PDA phone which makes the users to "Big with the mini GPS PDA Phone". But what about other features and aspects of the phone. Lets find out now... First of all with its specs... Operation System = Microsoft Windows® Mobile 6.1™ Professional Form = Bar Type Dimensions 99 x 54.5 x 13.35 mm Battery = 1100 mah 3.7 volt Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) Battery Weight = 105g with battery Standby Time = 200 Hours (Vary with different networking environment and scenario) Talk Time = 4 Hours (Vary with different networking environment and scenario) Display = 2.6" TFT LCD ,Touch Screen ,65536-color ,240 x 320 resolution CPU = TI 850 200 MHz Memory = Built-in 128MB Flash ROM, 64MB DDR RAM Expansion Slot = Micro-SD ,supports...

nishanthl21111987 29.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Asus P320

ASUS P5PE-VM

Advantages: Flexible
Disadvantages: -

...the BIOS auto-recovery function in a support CD. Users can reboot their system through the support CD when a bootable disk is not available, and go through the simple BIOS auto-recovery process. ASUS motherboards now enable users to enjoy this protection feature without the need to pay for an optional ROM. Max. 8 USB 2.0 ports supports USB 2.0 is the latest connectivity standard for next generation components and peripherals. Backwards compatible with current USB 1.1 peripherals, USB 2.0 delivers transfer speeds up to 40 times faster at 480Mb/s, for easy connectivity and ultra-fast data transfers. C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall) When the system hangs due to overclocking failure, there is no need to open the case to clear CMOS data. Just simply restart the system, the BIOS would show the previous setting and then users can amend...

djohan 09.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of ASUS P5PE-VM - motherboard - micro ATX - i865G

A great ASUS motherboard

Advantages: Lots of ports/features, price.
Disadvantages: Slow to pass bois post

...I brought this from ebuyer a few months back, for my new system build. I wanted a motherboard which had plenty of features/ports etc, without braking the bank, and this does just that. With 4 USB port, 7.1 surround sound audio card, 4 rear USB ports + 2 headers, Printer Port, and even 2 PCI-E 16X for SLi and 2 PCI-E and 2 PCI card slots, which is a good use of the slots available, with the PCI-E sure to be used more in the future, with it's smaller and faster slot. So, after unpacking, I found there to be a lot of accessories with this board, keeping up to ASUS's standards. I applied the headers to the case and installed the motherboard easy enough, connected everything up etc. and it was up and running. After setting itself up, I was able to install the operating system. The board had no problem installing the Sata hard drive and disc...

joefireline 24.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of ASUS M2N-E SLI - motherboard - ATX - nForce 500 SLI