I am sure most of you have heard by now form Asus that they will be releasing a two-hundred dollar laptop. The laptop is called the Asus Eee. From the looks of it it’s very small and hard to use. All keyboards on laptops are usually pretty cramped in size. This one is no exception. I like all the white design, looks almost like a MacBook from the back. (you probably all disagree with me).

I like the fact that Asus decided to go with Fedora Linux instead of Windows Vista. Fedora is becoming a great alternative to Windows. Ubuntu is great but a little overrated in my book. I have messed around with Linux and find it to be a little hard to use for the average person. Now someone like me or you might be able to figure it out and get it to work.

Microsoft now knows that companies are going to play along with the Windows games. Companies are going to do what there customers want them to do. If Asus’s customers wanted Fedora on the laptop, Asus listened and gave them what they wanted.

The Eee (pronounced E) has a 7″ screen and it has a all white design as well. Resolution of 800*480. Comes with Open Office pre-installed. But there is a rumor going around that the Eee might ship with Windows XP professional. So at least Asus is shipping it with Fedora or XP.

What is unique about this laptop is the fact that it does not use a hard drive. It uses a solid state drive, consuming less energy. Which is good because laptops tend to get hot faster and produce more energy, thus killing the battery. The SSID (Solid state) has 2GB of total storage.

This looks like an awesome laptop since it has xandros and/or XP. The fact that it does not use a hard drive is amazing, but the downside is only 2GBS of Flash storage, 256MB of RAM and a 900MHz Celeron Processor.

I hope we see more of these in the future and have more computer with flash memory on them instead of a hard drive. Hard drives are nice but use more power and heat and sometime can break. Hard drives also spin a lot and use more energy and can slow down a laptop because of the speed.

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