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ASUS Eee PC 4G - Celeron M 353 / 630 MHz ULV - RAM 512 MB - HDD 4 GB SSD - WLAN : 802.11b/g - Linux - 7" Widescreen TFT 800 x 480 ( WVGA ) - camera | 
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| Brand: Asus
Category: CE
Buy New: £180.00
New (4) Used (3) from £149.99
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 10192
Platform: Linux
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
MPN: EEEPC4G-W006E
UPC: 884840161417
EAN: 0884840161417
ASIN: B00109V054
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Easy to Learn, Easy to work and Easy to play!!! 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. Connect with friends and family with just a few clicks. Mobility & Reliability At half the size of regular notebooks and weighing less than 1kg, you can take the Eee PC anywhere. Bumps and shocks are no longer issues. With a dependable solid-state disk, you get unparalleled shock-protection and reliability. Power-efficient design provides longer operating time when on the go. Ease & Technology With a rapid start-up time, the Eee PC is always ready to get into action. No technical manual required with the specially designed, user-friendly and intuitive graphic interface . Work & Connectivity Youre always connected with built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g that automatically detects and connects to the Internet at any hotspot. The Eee PC includes the documents and the e-mails software, and a suite of other productivity software to help keep you on track. Upload photos and videos and share them instantly on Flickr or YouTube without waiting till you get home. Media & Entertainment Enjoy music and videos with extensive support for a wide range of digital multimedia. Log on to Skype or other network, and you can connect with friends anywhere, anytime. Clear up wire clutter with the built-in card reader, speakers, and microphone.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 5 star gem November 20, 2008
R. J. de Bulat (UK)
I have just bought this machine when there are several other models on the market, but this is now the cheapest and I got it for 149.00. I was impressed immediately with the way it functions and the speed at which it starts up. It works well, bearing in mind that it is not windows, but this is a plus for me: I wanted a small and lean, basic computer that is really portable. This is and the operating systems and bundle of applications are easy to use, if very slightly different from MS Office applications. I use PC's, Mac's and Linux and open office is becoming my preferred choice much of the time, lately. The best part of it is portability and functionality: it works well and speedily, but I don't expect bells and whistles - I don't want them. This easily fits in a brief case or an overcoat pocket, so you can take it anywhere. I had no trouble connecting to the internet and to email, but I haven't tested it in a lot of locations to see if it works as well as airport extreme on Mac's. This will be a key test, but I don't see why it won't work providing there is a network nearby - it will certainly pick it up. In any case, there are internet anywhere dongles around, although they come at a price. Open Office 2.0 is installed, which works well; it's not the latest version, but I couldn't tell what the difference might be. A great little machine. Use USB drives to move files from one computer to another.
Can't praise highly enough ... October 31, 2008
Jack the Bear (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I could blather on for ages about this really impressive machine!
Superb for wireless internet on the move, it's so small that you can use it where a normal laptop would be intrusive. Just about big enough to type sensibly on and I can vouch for the fact that you can type more than just brief notes and emails on it - I'm happily using it for essay-length writing but that does depend on how tolerant of smaller keyboard layouts you are I suppose. Naturally, this review was typed and sent from the eee pc!
One of the biggest incentives to use this laptop is that it boots up and shuts down really quickly ... you can be on the internet within 60 seconds of deciding to switch the thing on.
Never used Linux before and it's good. I can now see why it has so many fans. I use Microsoft Word and PowerPoint a lot but the OpenOffice application on the eee pc reads and saves files in those formats so no problems there.
Only downside I would say is that additional software is undeniably much scarcer compared to running a Windows machine, so unless you're a bit of a techie and are happy to play around with Linux formats you might find that a bit constraining. But straight out of the box this is a great laptop with Linux versions of a lot of the most common software applications pre-loaded, and if nothing else it will surely bring prices of other machines down because of the sheer quality of what's on offer here for well under 200 quid!
 Cheap and Cheerful, But Not For Everyone June 30, 2008
Peri Urban (Scotland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a fun wee machine that looks like a toy but isn't, although there are important compromises to bear in mind.
You get portability and rugged reliability at the expense of
*Memory - only 512mb of RAM and 4gb of solid state storage (no hard drive), of which about half is used by the Linux installation.
* Minority OS - the installed Linux OS will be an utter mystery to most people.
* Speed - the 900mz processor combined with the solid state drive (based on Flash RAM) means that this isn't the fastest machine there is.
* Screen real estate - yes, the screen looks cute, but the native 800x640 resolution does cause problems, even though there is an 800x600 "point and push" option.
* Small keyboard - touch typists will hate it, the rest of us will adapt.
* No optical drive - making upgrading or changing the OS and installing software somewhat tricky.
The installed Linux Xandros OS is tab and icon based, keeping things simple for those who want a standalone solution on the move. But if you want to network this with your XP or Vista home PC to share files and printers you will need to change the OS, and for that you will need an external optical drive.
There is now a version available with XP pre-installed for about 30 extra. That version comes with a mouse, MS Works and MS Live.
I have two of these machines - one that came with Xandros, and one with XP. I installed XP on the Xandros machine without any real problems, but this does require that you have a legitimate copy of Service Pack 2 XP. There's a useful wee application called nLite which helped me enormously with the installation.
The machine will run games up to the graphical level of the likes of Half Life 2, but the performance will depend upon the speed of the additional high speed HD memory card you are going to want pretty soon. That 4gb gets eaten up very quickly.
The web cam is very basic, and the sound recording from the built in mic on both of the models I have was terrible. Headset required for Skype.
Having said all of that, and pointed out the pitfalls, I think this is a great wee machine. It appeals to those who want an instant cheap solution out of the box, as well as to those who want to tinker (that's me!)
There are a few more of these sub or micro notebooks on the horizon. Look out for bigger screen sizes and faster processors, but in the meantime, this is a great buy.
 Lets itself down! April 30, 2008
A. HODGES (Kent, England)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought it thinking yay! Really portable laptop, lets do some writing. But then the keyboard starts messing around, keys dropping off and spacebars not working properly. Even the keys that are still there don't ALWAYS work. Terrible for if you buy this thing intending to do some actual word processing work with it. The screen isn't too impressive either. You get what you pay for. Next to nothing.
Brilliant April 24, 2008
Stu M (Yorkshire, UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought my eee on a whim after seeing a work colleague with one. Since buying it I've not looked back - for the price, they're amazing.
Fully functioning PC, clear screen, fine to type (I'm on one now).
I had been considering getting my PDA repaired, as I used it pretty much all the time. But the move from touchscreen-stylus to proper keyboard is amazing. They're just a tad bigger than a filofax, so to use it as a personal organiser is obvious. And this from something marketed as a toy!
I must say I've tweaked it since buying it; XP on it, Office, some games, hacks (there's a very good user community at eeeuser.com) - all makes for a great computer at a very good price.
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