The Little PC That Could

January 12th, 2008 • Life, Technology

I must be going lo-fi. For some reason I can’t nail, I want the £250 Asus Eee PC.

God knows why. The hard drive is tiny. The thing runs Linux, and to my knowledge I can’t add new apps if it runs out of steam. I’ve played with one for 10 mins, and the casework wears its plastic as a badge of honour.

Perhaps the source of the urge comes from my weariness with expensive flagships that are bloated with features that I will simply never, ever use.

My £250 will buy a compact, hopefully robust laptop that doesn’t need wires to connect to the internet. It will be able to produce documents (OpenOffice comes pre-installed, so I can jabber with my Word and Excel-touting colleagues), view sites and grab email.

And with toys such as Google Gears doing the rounds, there’s a strong case for no longer needing desktop apps: install Gears, and your documents, doodles and email are on tap - regardless of the presence of a wi-fi signal. Miraculous.

In fact, we’ve even discussed equipping our reporters with an Asus each: unless than capturing terabytes of video, it’s almost the perfect tool.

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