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title: ' first month getting Asus Eee PC 702'
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- notebook
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- review
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<img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/com/test/007/top_main.jpg"> </center><p>First of all, this will cover how I feel of Eee PC and surely I have both impressions and disappointments; however, in this article I will talk about Eee PC with Xandros Linux only; I just want to know how good Eee really is, not something else. You will find Windows XP Eee PC in the second month article though, so this way you will get more depth in detail. Hope this would be interesting.</p> <br><b><font color="#c46200">First Impression:-</font></b> <br><p>You will have no idea how it actually is if you haven't seen this in person; its size seems to fit in every lady bag. This could help you image how small it is. Moreover, Eee PC is just getting into people so fast; it likes sort of love at first sight feeling really; one of my friends instantly decided to get Eee PC as soon as selling her old laptop after touching and testing on my Eee PC. How could you believe that? but it's real.</p> <br><p>That feeling gets into me too; I really impress how small, portable, neat, yet powerful it is. I could turn it on and it would be ready for me to use in less than 25 seconds--this is coming from turn-off state, not hibernate or standby or any kind. From using experience, you will not find any lag much such as 2-4 sec for opening Firefox, Skype, and most, but you will have about 8 sec lag with OpenOffice which I think it's not bad at all. This proves that 900MHz is more than enough to run this device; IMO, since Eee PC's screen is only 800px*480px could be the main reason why it doesn't require that heavy processor.</p> <br><div align="right"><a href="#">to the top</a></div><hr size="1" width="90%"> <br><b><font color="#ec7600">Size does matter</font></b> <br><p>it really matters for Eee PC. Since it is both the vital factor for everyone interesting in it and main reason why it has a drawback. For you guys who hesitate to get one, I think all these following photos could help you a bit. I can say that the 7-inch screen is enough to show enough web content, and you could increase font size as you want as well. No doubt with the quality of screen--nice, crisp, wide range of brightness, LED-backlit--no leakage, about 133 DPI. Unfortunately, if this has an option for larger screen, it would be excellent. I would rather give $100 for 3" more.</p> <br><center> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/com/test/007/compare-2.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/com/test/007/compare-3.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/com/test/007/compare-4.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/com/test/007/compare-5.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/com/test/007/compare-6.jpg"> </center><p>Size does effect keyboard as well. For Eee PC, you have almost standard notebook keyboard layout but just smaller, darned small and some awkward key position. I found this is just too small for my hand, but once I forced myself, I'm okay with it. I can type almost 90% correct because around 7 keys on the right is just too small to type precisely without looking it and right shift and arrows are in damned awkward position. Eee which sells on other countries might have another layout though. About the quality, you won't find any hi-end feeling in very portable laptop like this, but it is not that much flex to effect your typing experience indeed. Another thing that I hate about this keyboard is grave accent (`) position; it's between "esc" and "f1" instead of right before "1" as usual. Oh I almost forget mention missing "ctrl" key on the right as well. Overall, in order to compromise with small size and a full keyboard, so this is such a good deal.</p> <br><center> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/com/test/007/grave-position.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/com/test/007/right-kb.jpg"> </center><p>Smaller chassis also exacerbates mouse pad size; this is the thing I don't like about Eee. It doesn't mean it's not good to use--still working great, but it's just too small sometimes. If Asus just enlarges thi
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