Eee PC - Easy, super efficient and fun to use

How would you like to whip out a small gadget with a sleek body from your handbag, without puffing it up, to surf the net and check your emails wirelessly or work in word and excel document or perhaps a presentation in ppt, or may be in mood to chat or skype with someone while you download some files or listen to music, watch videos, or play games etc etc…. with ease and quick efficiency….? And lots of eyeballs admiring your machine ??? Sounds terrific? Exciting? To me, that’s what Eee Pc does and what hopefully Macbook Air will do ………

I am not going to review Eee Pc or Macbook Air nor am I going to pit these two awesome works of engineering against each other. I will just draw a quick picture in words about these two stunners and their capabilities.

Easy, super efficient and fun to use, this is what I would use to describe Eee PC and Macbook Air. Eee PC and Macbook Air are small extremely light and super efficient laptops which can do just about everything as mentioned earlier with ready to go softwares pre-installed at your fingertips. AND I can VOUCH for Eee PC since I own this baby.

Before I could lay my hands on Eee PC, a lady in a Hong Kong electronic mall, Mongkok Computer Centre to be specific, showed me a small laptop of same size by a Korean company, which was equally enticing and had more or less same configuration with 1gb ram instead of Eee Pc's 512mb ram and Windows XP installed. BUT, the cost was double of Eee PC and I would have seriously kicked myself, if I had bought it and later seen Eee PC. After setting my eyes on Eee PC and knowing it’s capabilities, our ( me and my wife ) decision became firmer to buy it and it’s price, sealed the deal.

I would not demean these two machines, Eee PC and MacBook Air by calling it, only a traveller’s dream companions. Just about anyone can start using it without an iota of computer knowledge. I haven’t used Macbook Air as yet, obviously as it’s just been launched, but from it's configuration it tells the whole story.

For uninitiated following is the basic configuration for Eee Pc and Macbook Air with Eee Pc pictures. Well, my Sony T200 digital cam insisted on doing the honours.

Eee Pc which is by ASUS and introduced in the market very recently -

1) 7” display - intel mobile chip with Linux

2) Solid state ( Flash drive ) 4 gig disk and 512mb ram

3) Lan port, optional phone port, mic and earphone outputs.

4) Memory Card Slot, 3 USB ports, External Monitor Port

5) Wi-fi and Web Cam

6) Loads of pre-installed softwares to start with....

Macbook Air

1) 13” display with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2GB memory with MAC OS X Leopard

2) 64GB solid-state drive or 80GB Parallel ATA, 4200 rpm.

3) With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

3) USB port, audio out, Micro DVI

4) isight camera

5) No optical drive. But there’s a feature in MBAir, by which you can access a optical drive from any other computer near you, Win or MAC to load softwares.

The know more head to :

Eee PC Website

http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product.htm

Macbook Air Website

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html

Kip expressing :)