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The ASUS, the Taiwanese tech heavyweight is very well known here for desktop components like motherboard and various other components, has introduced a laptop worth $400 with much of the capabilities of a $2,000 Fujitsu or Sony subnotebook; the usability and convenience that are missing from the club members of Intel’s Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC); and the wackiest name of the year.
The Eee PC has its name framed from “easy to play, easy to work, easy to learn”; you can even enjoy the motto of the Asus “Rock Solid, Heart Touching” — is a traveling companion weighing a two-pound for anyone who’d want the productivity of the basic office and WiFi e-mail and Web in a system that is slightly larger than a three DVD case stack (about 1.4 by 9 by 6.5 inches).
Can it really be compared to the status-symbol—“slimline” notebook?  Inspite of an 12 or 11-inch LCD, the Asus has brought a little bitsy display of 7-inches. If you lie to have a DVD or a CD drive, you need to plug in to an external USB model.
And instead of a huge hard disk that takes a lot of space, this has no hard disk present at all — the 4G is the name for its 4GB flash memory (solid-state) drive, of which only 1.4GB is available after the Asus installs 40 various applications incluing the operating system. To have an extra storage, you nee to plug an SD/MMC card into a flash drive or a slot into the USB port.
The reasons for the Eee to be sensational are very simple: Other notebooks are easy to carry cost much more than $400. And various other notebooks which cost $400 weigh much more than two pounds.

The SD/MMC card slot is present on the right side of the Eee’s right side, adjacent to the two USB 2.0 ports and the VGA port — connects an analog monitor, and lets you to see the presentation on both the screens or on either of the screens, with the external resolution to 1,600 x 1,200. Another USB port is present on the left, as are Ethernet, headphone and microphone jacks (and a port regarding a dial-up modem  left empty in the configuration of 4G).
It’s just a snap to join the wireless network using the Atheros 802.11b/g adapter of the system, but the other two wireless pathways are absent — it would have been marvelous if the Eee had 3G wireless broadband to surf when there isn’t any hotspot at sight or at least the Bluetooth. Asus says that it’ll consider the issue with few add-on cards that are scheduled to ship in conjunction with the accessories such as spare packs of batteries in the next year.
The Intel Celeron M 353 processor of Eee— was evidently chosen for its economica thermal design for 5-watt power in spite of its screaming speed. But the flash memory disk helps the Asus to feel peppy enough while switching among or loading programs; the huge bulky OpenOffice.org gets loaded within 15 seconds. Nobody’s going to manipulate the high-definiton video on the Eee, but each and everyday the applications tend to feel perfectly responsive.