The Asus Eee PC 701 - The Original Netbook

The Asus Eee PC 701 - the computer that brought to us the apple of 1 kilo laptops, sub-£200 prices and the name 'netbook'. Back the aboriginal 4G archetypal appeared during COMPUTEX Taipei 2007, Asus accept taken the Eee PC, fabricated it bigger, faster, flashier and added anatomic - which has pushed the amount up. The aboriginal Eee PC about charcoal accurate to its netbook roots; small, light, simple and cheap.
The Asus Eee PC 701 lacks some appearance of some of the newer models. It doesn't accept the Intel Atom processor begin on a lot of netbooks, back the Atom wasn't about until 2008. Instead, the apprehensive Intel Celeron M 900MHz ULV processor takes its abode - advised with continued array activity in mind, appropriately the ULV; Ultra low-voltage.
The array itself, Asus promises will pump out 3 and a bisected hours of array life, hardly beneath for the cream models. Storage is adapted to the adaptation of the model; in this case, 4G of Solid accompaniment drive. 512MB of anamnesis is aswell congenital in.
The screen, alone 7 inches beyond has a beggarly 800x480 awning resolution which'll leave you scrolling alongside for a lot of websites. By comparison, after 9 inch and 10 inch mini laptops accept a 1024x600 resolution. The awning itself is engulfed by the speakers which lie on both sides, with a microphone and a 0.3 megapixel camera aloft it.
The keyboard, a whopping 83% admeasurement of a abounding admeasurement keyboard is useable, although it takes some convenance to clarify the abilities bare for chatty typing. Bear in apperception the Eee PC was advised for accouchement - none the less, 70% of accepted netbook sales are accepted to be for consumers, not educational. Unlike some netbooks, the Dell Mini 9 comes to mind, all the keys from a abounding admeasurement archetypal are included.
Dimensions; the 701 is a baby 22.5x16.5x3.5 cm, although the array does bead down to 2.5cm. The admeasurement puts it in band with accepted hardback, with a counterbalance to bout - a trim 0.92 kilos. It's about the admeasurement of bisected an A4 area of cardboard bankrupt up.
Regardless, the specs are no bout for the newer models. Thanks to the speakers on the ancillary of the awning on the 701, the 9 inch models aren't that abundant bigger - including our #1 mini laptop: the Eee PC 901. Simplicity charcoal accepted beyond the Eee PC range, with a best of Linux and XP operating systems. However, all-embracing weight and amount has steadily added - so whilst the newer netbooks may be added powerful, the simplest, cheapest and lightest charcoal the aboriginal netbook - the Asus Eee PC 701.