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ASUS Eee PC: Exclusive Inside Look

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 1, 2007

“Eee PC 701 4G in ASUS’ words is ‘Easy to Learn, Easy to Work,
Easy to Play.’ What am I on about? Well it’s ASUS’ new mini laptop
already on sale in Taiwan, and due out elsewhere towards the end of
the year. As far as we know, they are working closely with
Microsoft to get a Vista PC up and ready soon.

“The current one on sale has a Generic ASUS-customized Xandros
Linux with ‘Easy’ and ‘Standard’ GUI modes that has all the
essentials preloaded, including special draw programs similar to
Paint, chat programs such as MSN and Skype and ICQ to name a few;
and of course it has the mandatory word clone called AbiWord that
works with Linux…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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