Musings on Asus Eee PC (Updated)

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I’ve been thinking about the Asus Eee PC, and reading some first hands-on reviews (here and here and here – lucky bastards), the main selling point for this device is still the price.

The Asus Eee PC (Eee for short) has no optical drive. And since Eee comes preloaded with Xandros variant of Linux, I cannot install the PC Suite of my Sony Ericsson m600i, in case I need to connect to the Internet via 3G. My only hope is (1) you can attach an external optical drive via USB, (2) you can boot via the external optical drive and (2) you can install Windows XP via that route.

No 3G = dialup. Crap. Making tambay at Robinsons malls is an expensive option, travel-fare wise.

I wish they have maximized the screen. I don’t have the need for speakers, they are useless anyway.

As for the measly flash drive storage, it’s not a problem for me. Since this is just a mobile computer for me, multimedia is not essential. Maybe a few megs of MP3s just in case. I am not sure if a music player software is included.

The reviews all point out that the keyboard is no good for long typing; geesh, short blog posts he he.

Hopefully, this device will land here in the Philippines. I am holding off getting Nokia E61i (E90 is out of the question, period) and a laptop just for this. Asus, please?

UPDATE:

It seems that PC Corner knows more about the pricing.

3 thoughts on “Musings on Asus Eee PC (Updated)”

  1. I have not come across information if the Eee does BIOS or EFI (the motherboard software). If it does the latter, we’re out of luck – neither XP nor Vista supports EFI hardware, while most *-nix and the Mac already does

    OTOH, I was at Starmall today to get a haircut and I happened to find this new expansion with a shop that sells rebfurb’d P10,000 IBM ThinkPads (thats roughly 200 US$ for your international fans)! Those’re Pentium 3 and Celeron machines tho, but I don’t trust the Eee outdoes them by a mile

  2. Yo, Jeff. I am wary of refurbished things. I’d gamble on the Eee. Hopefully it does BIOS; Asus claims Windows XP works on the Eee.

    My theory is that they will charge extra for Windows-based Eee.

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