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Just What is this ASUS Eee Thing Anyway?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the been-asking-myself-that-for-awhile-now dept.

davidmwilliams writes "ASUS have released a cheap subnotebook. It is far from state-of-the-art tech-wise, with 512Mb RAM and a Celeron processor. It has a 4Gb hard drive and no optical drive. Its screen is 7" and runs at the odd resolution of 800x480 and the operating system looks like something Fisher Price might have designed. Why would you buy it? What on earth can you do with this?" I've been wondering this myself given the huge coverage in the media of this thing.

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  1. Well yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is far from state-of-the-art tech-wise, with 512Mb RAM and a Celeron processor.

    Nothing wrong with a Celeron, but 64 megabytes of RAM is pretty small nowadays.
  2. Re:Huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just like the Windows XP default theme.... ... but in Linux! (Just like KDE and Gnome who try to copy Microsoft's UI, even down to the start menu, all the while claiming it's like a Fischer Price toy.)
  3. Re:Those Bastards at Apple never had a task bar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    While you got modded funny, you're completely wrong. Apple bought the WINDOWED OS from Xerox or whoever back then (when computers were just powerful enough to run a GUI, so it was the next logical step), but there was no taskbar / start menu / tray, which is what I said Windows '95 had and was the first OS to popularize. Windows 1.0 actually invented the taskbar idea in '85 or so, but Windows 3.xx didn't use it. Apple never had a "taskbar" but now emulates one with their "dock".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskbar

    It should be noted that Windows 1.00, released in 1985 (two years earlier than Arthur), also sported a variant of the taskbar. Running tasks were iconified in the bottom panel. So, as I said, like it or not the modern desktop environment started with Windows '95. IE4 added the fourth component to the mix - the quick launch.