The impact of the Eee PC
It is fair to say that, for a product that seemed a perfectly logical, hardly radical extension of the portable computer sector, the Eee PC has nonetheless shaken up the entire market. What's more, it's done so for a variety of reasons.
On one hand, its sheer affordability has enticed it to those who previously couldn't afford a laptop, or those who were looking for a second machine to keep around. Then there's its portability, which has endeared it to the business traveller who has to lug their machine around everywhere with them. If you can put up with the cramped keyboard, then the weight saving alone has to be admired. There's also its sheer overall size, which has pretty much managed to redefine what you'd expect of a truly ultra-portable laptop machine.
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What's surprising, of course, is that it took so long to get here. Very small laptops are nothing new of course, as any long distance train passenger could tell you when walking up and down a carriage. Bizarrely, the smaller the machine, the more significant the price tag that has been attached. It has taken Asus, and projects such as the One Laptop Per Child campaign, to turn all of that on its head.
With the Eee PC, not only did Asus manage to bring a genuinely compact and lightweight machine to market, but it did it by using components intelligently.
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