ASUS Eee
Asus Eee Top ET1602 priced 430 pounds is an exotic beauty to look at, wide touch screen with top quality picture depiction, vibrant color and sharp detailing. The Eee Top tops in technical quality, elegant looks, and sophisticated style, easy to operate interface is just apt for a home PC. Width of the screen is accurate to call it more a home or family fun device.
It features a 15.6″ 16:9 Wide Panel Touch screen monitor, TFT display type, coming with a slim and sleek stand on panel. Unique edge of the Asus Eee Top is the unusual display resolution of 1366 x 768 which is a commonly found feature in LCD TVs.
Installed graphics type is onboard graphics. Web camera is also in line with other installed features that is 1.3 pixels. For audio support, 4W Hifi speaker x 2 + SRS Premium Sound System is not a soft sounding and high standard audio.
White in color, looking good, comes with more than only looks; it is a processing speed giant. With Windows XP Home running on top speed without delays is impressive enough. Well integrated Microsoft operating system is a quick launch bar.
The main interface holds icon driven tabs, 4 in numbers, it more seem like a family shared computer which any one can operate with minimized difficulty. These tabs are named as ‘Communication Tab’, ‘Fun Tab, ‘Work Tab’, and ‘Tools Tab’. Easily accessible tabs are for old as well as children. Most of the applications reside in these tabs like the tab ‘Communication’ has Skype, emails and web applications; direct linking with widely used web sites/search engines.
Amazing! Touching the tab through screen takes you directly to Yahoo, Gmail, Windows Live Mail, MySpace, Facebook, Blogger and Google News. Likewise ‘Fun Tab’ resides media handling software, just like Windows Media Center, also has a few games too, again, able to be played by touching the screen.
‘Work Tab’ holds everything that can be of requirement like PDF reader, calculator, file manager, individual links to all facets of Sun Microsystems’ StarSuite software for productivity. The ‘Tools Tab’ with a specific applications links including Internet Explorer and Opera, along with customization options.
The Top is topped with card reader (SD/MMC/Memory Stick), 5400 Drive Speed, 802.11n Data Link Protocol, HDD Capacity 160.00 GB, 1GB Installed RAM, 6 USB Ports, Processor Intel Atom N270 + 945 GSE, and Power Supply: 19Vdc, 3.42A, 65W power adaptor.
Weighing only 4.30 kg, it offers a virtual keyboard to input text; SoftStylus. Stylus is there too to avoid finger prints which can be slotted into the back of a keyboard; it’s an option to cater the requirement of a keyboard. The messages can also be used very easily using the virtual keyboard or by touching the screen. Drag and drop functions are also offered by Opera Touch.
Though it comes with so many interesting features/ tools, its popularity and success is suspected.
