Colored Laptops

The Asus Eee PC 4G is an ultra portable low cost colored laptop which due to its size is actually classified as a netbook. It comes in a variety of different colors and as it weighs in at only 2 pounds making it a great solution to the quest for a very inexpensive web surfing and office productivity portable computer.

The optional solid state hard drive which goes a long way towards keeping the overall cost way down comes in varying sizes starting at 2GB. The operating system on the smaller versions of the Eee PC 4G is an Asus customized version of the Linux operating system. Additional storage can be added via the SD Card slot (flash memory), and the USB ports. You could also easily plug in a USB optical drive as this model does not come with an optical drive.

This laptop comes with an array of software applications already installed on the computer including FireFox and OpenOffice 2.0 which allows you to easily read and write Microsoft Office compatible documents including MS Word, MS Excel, etc.

It is true that many people have a limited knowledge of what goes on under the hood of a Microsoft Windows operating system from the standpoint of a technician, so Linux should not be all that different from the end user stand point. For example you click on your email icon, you click on your browser icon, you click on your documents icon, you open up your media player application and various other programs. This is all the same as what you do in Windows.

Also included on this netbook as far as the software side of things goes is a media player, an instant messaging program that works with Yahoo!, AOL, etc., games, handy diagnostic utilities, the office productivity applications, and quite a bit more.

The model we reviewed sports a 900MHz Intel Mobile CPU and 512MB of DDR2 memory which is quite sufficient for web surfing and office productivity. Though the Asus Eee PC is known for its ultra portability and it's ability to get online wirelessly from virtually anywhere, it also has the ability to plug into any existing Ethernet network as well. This is accomplished just the same way as you would plug into the Internet/network using any other desktop or laptop computer via the standard RJ-45 Ethernet port.

Most of these features are what you will find on most laptops built within the last four years or so. The Asus Eee PC 4G comes with a built-in webcam with a resolution of 800x480. The screen size is 7". The 4 cell battery offers approximately 3 hours of use between charges. We found this to be a great little Linux laptop which comes in a variety of different colors at a very low price.

The standard features found on the Asus Eee PC G4 include video VGA out, SD Card reader, stereo speakers, microphone and headphone outputs, 3 USB 2.0 ports, modem, Ethernet port, and 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi built in.