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A mere 4GB of storage space tells you that the Eee PC isn't going to be your primary digital media vault out of the box, but you can easily augment that capacity with an external drive. Most apps loaded quickly, and the 512MB of RAM is more than sufficient for an operating system with such little overhead. Overall performance was pretty snappy, even though this machine uses a Celeron processor. We encountered a screen-resolution issue with the new Yahoo Mail, but we still got it to work. The device had no problems handling Web 2.0 sites powered by Ajax technology (like Netvibes) or Flash (YouTube). Although surfing wasn't quite as zippy as it is on our ThinkPad, it was still plenty fast.

Getting online with the Eee PC 701 via Wi-Fi was pretty painless once you set up a profile and enter the encryption key, the notebook will automatically connect to that network the next time you boot up.

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Overall, the Media Player app looks positively crude compared to Windows Media Center and Apple's Front Row, so a makeover is certainly in order. The Photo Manager took its sweet time loading large image files, however.

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The Eee PC also did a nice job handling MPEG-4 videos captured by a 720p Sanyo Xacti camcorder and stored on an SD Card the video looked surprisingly smooth on the seven-inch display.

The device played MP3s and WMAs stored on a memory card while we surfed the Web, and the built-in mic performed admirably when making Skype calls. No, the Eee PC doesn't do iTunes, but the preloaded Media Player and decent-sounding speakers get the job done.

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Asus also includes a file-manager utility, a PDF reader, the Thunderbird e-mail client, and a Notes app. These programs took more than ten seconds to load the first time but only eight seconds after that, and we had no problem composing a Word document on the Eee PC, saving our work to a memory key and then continuing to work on that file on a Windows laptop. Under the Work menu you'll find quick links to 2.0's various Microsoft Office-compatible apps, including Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations. Under Learn, for example, you can launch word games like Hangman and math games like Tux of Math Command (starring the Linux penguin), which gives flash-card-style math questions the space-shooter treatment. Why waste money on a two-trick pony like the ZipIt 2 Communicator (which offers only IMing and MP3 playback) when you can get a featherlight PC that does those things and surfs the whole Web, too? And that's not all the Eee PC can do. In fact, the Eee PC is the perfect device for households that fight over the primary PC (and its Internet connection). Teens and adults will likely spend the most time in the Internet area, where you can launch the Firefox browser, Wikipedia, Skype (for making cheap calls), and the instant messaging program (which includes clients for AOL, Google Talk, MSN, and Yahoo). So what can you do with this mini notebook? Practically anything you would do with a Windows-powered one. And although we didn't mind the unified, slightly chintzy-feeling touchpad button that you can left- or right-click on, our kid tester found it confusing at first. The keyboard is cramped but is just big enough to touch-type on the biggest annoyance is the proximity of the Up arrow key and right Shift key we accidentally moved up a line on several occasions while trying to capitalize a letter. An extra USB port, Ethernet and modem connections, and headphone and mic jacks line the left side. Our white model (black and other colors will come later) features an SD Card slot, two USB ports, and a VGA port on the right. Overall, the Eee PC's design is fairly solid and incredibly travel-friendly for the price. (For a look atthe latest Eee PC model, see our review of the Eee PC 4G Surf). It's a little rough around the edges, but the Eee PC is a remarkably versatile machine for the price. It's ten times simpler to use than any Windows machine, starts up twice as fast (no crapware!), and is only about a fifth of the cost of other systems in its weight class. The Eee PC may be designed to appeal to children and older customers, but it should also tempt anyone looking for a lightweight budget PC that weighs next to nothing and connects to the Internet easily.

And yet there's no way we would give up this two-pound wonder for a 'regular' notebook. For the same price, the Asus Eee PCoffers the same amount of RAM and Celeron processor but a smaller seven-inch display, a measly 4GB of storage space, and no DVD drive. This past weekend a circular advertised a Vista-powered laptop equipped with a Celeron processor, 14.1-inch display, an 80GB hard drive, and a DVD drive for only $399.

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