ASUS Eee PC 2G Surf (7-Inch Display, Intel Mobile Processor, 512 MB RAM, 2 GB Hard Drive, Linux Preloaded) Pure White
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Asus netbook Eee PC 2G Surf allows you to share photos of your travels without waiting till you get home, shop the world wide web without attaching any lines or wires, learn through the latest technology without a technical manual, play, relax, and entertain on the go with shock-proof design, and connect with friends and family with just a few clicks. Product details and pricing info |
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173 Customer Reviews Posted
- Great for what I wanted!
- I have a larger HP laptop that I use to work from home. Because its large (so that the kids can watch movies when we travel) and its hooked up to all my peripherals (keyboard, printer, back up, etc), its been a hassle to unplug when I want to work at the java joint. Further, I have wanted to do some fiction writing, but don't want to sit at my work computer to do it. So I bought the ASUS as I thought it would meet my needs for a portable, affordable way to write somewhere other than my home office.
I retrospect, I probably should have bought the 4g one for the additional space. But it didn't come in green. I have a writing program that needs windows to run so by the time I loaded XP and the program, there was little room for anything else (windows likes to have 200 mb free space).
However, I do love it. It jumps online with no problems. The Linux setup with OpenOffice and other sources already on it worked great and I would have kept it if I could have run my writing program. It has 3 usb ports so I'm able to plug in a mouse and flash drive. It has a slot for a SD card as well. I bought the 4g SD card to go with it. Using the card or a flash drive I can move between the ASUS and my regular laptop easily.
The keyboard is small but that's what you get for wanting a small laptop. The only trouble I've had with it is that sometimes I hit the arrow up key instead of the shift key.
The ASUS offers a great little system for an affordable price. I wouldn't expect to run a business on it or have too many applications. But if you're looking for something portable that you can use to access the Internet or write documents, its a nice little system. - 2008-07-18, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- ASUS Eee PC 2GB Surf
- Speakers are right next to screen. 800Mhz Intel Celeron M is underclocked to run cooler, with a tray for a heatsink under the keyboard. 512MB of fast DDR2 memory is soldered to motherboard, not upgradeable. Solid-state hard drive (flash) is resistant to shock and allows boot time superior to standard SATA hard drive. If I didn't know the CPU speed was only 800Mhz I would swear it was at least 2Ghz. Keys on keyboard are small, those with big fingers will have some difficulty with typing. Overall, a nice internet appliance. Not intended to be an all-around PC.
- 2008-07-17, 2 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Asus Eee 2G
- I purchased this to travel with on vacation. I also use it around the house and yard now instead of my desktop or an older IBM laptop. The negative is that it's obviously made for kids, and the keyboard is tiny. A lot of times, I hit the Enter key instead of a punctuation key. Other than that it operates just fine.
FYI, I primarily just use it for email and websurfing and not for the other applications. - 2008-07-14, 2 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Love at first sight ...
- This is the little do-all device I have been waiting for. Lightweight at only 2 pounds. This computer boots up in about 20 seconds. (compared to Vista boot time of 2 minutes and 38 seconds!)
Has no hard drive to worry about. Uses SSD memory which draws less power than a coventional hard drive.
It has 3 USB ports for various add-on devices, such as external keyboard, mouse etc.
The wireless connection works very well - easy to setup. Sound is good for such small speakers. The music program works flawlessly with my MP3 players.
Expect about 2.5 to 3.5 hours of runtime per charge.
What's not to love? Our family has 3 of these little computers and they are being used for everything - Photo edits, word processing, spreadsheets, video and music players, network management. While our desktop computers gather dust. - 2008-07-14, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great
- The main reason I bought this computer was that IT IS NOT WINDOWS!!! This is not just because I am a Apple person, just recently Intel gave Microsoft the finger by saying it would not upgrade it's 80,000 company computers to Vista, because windows is old, slow junk.
Five minutes after I opened the box I was up and running, connected to my wireless internet. Same thing at work.
The desk top has big icons and is very clear;internet,work,learn,play,settings,favorites--simple and easy.
A great value for [..] - 2008-07-13, 2 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
