| You get home from the office and while waiting for a | | | | keyboard but it is not too heavy to rest on your knees |
| meal, you want to check your personal e-mails and | | | | in the lounge and use it there. The word processing, |
| talk to some members of the family over the internet. | | | | spreadsheet, web browsing, and communication |
| You look at your desktop and there is your daughter | | | | software is all available and can be accessed there |
| with a heap of homework, keying like mad. You go to | | | | and then. It is a very quick little machine to start and so |
| the portable and your son is researching for his | | | | will help to perform minor tasks easily and quickly. |
| homework. It has been like this for days. By the time | | | | You may miss not having a CD or DVD drive for |
| you have had your meal, you are too tired to check | | | | storage but if you really need one then buy an |
| the e-mails, even though the computers are available. | | | | external one and use it as a backup drive for the other |
| Time to get another computer, but there is no space | | | | computers, especially of one or more of them do not |
| for another one. If you put it in your bedroom, then you | | | | have DVD writers. The backup from this little machine |
| will flop on the bed and fall asleep. If it goes in the | | | | can be handled by memory cards and you may need |
| lounge then someone else will use it. What do we do? | | | | to equip one of your other computers with a memory |
| This scene may be fictional but the fight to gain | | | | card reader in order to transfer the backups onto the |
| access to the Internet and e-mails is a real one in | | | | other machines, but there are cheap and will connect |
| many households. It is surprising that in the last 20 | | | | into your USB socket. |
| years the PC and the Internet have become so much | | | | All in all to cut down on the fights over the computers |
| part of what we do and how we do it. The changes | | | | in the house the ASUS EEE seems an excellent |
| to our society were even greater than the changes as | | | | solution. The EEE will not be stolen by any of the |
| a result of the installation of the first telephone | | | | children for games or homework as the limitations of |
| systems. | | | | the hardware will make it unattractive, but this just |
| The answer to this problem is the ASUS EEE. This | | | | makes it even more attractive to the parents. We do |
| sub-notebook computer is not designed to spend | | | | not need the fights, but we do need the access to the |
| hours using it to do homework or research, but it is | | | | Internet. What did we do before we had the Internet? |
| enough to check your e-mails and contact your | | | | So the next time you see this little box with the letters |
| relatives. Personally I would choose the Linux-based | | | | ASUS on the outside, don't just ignore it as a toy, or |
| 900 EEE computer with 20GB hard drive. This gives | | | | perhaps something for a child's birthday or Christmas, |
| some space to work on and does not encourage any | | | | but take a look for your birthday and give yourself |
| of your children to load on their latest game. The 12GB | | | | uninterrupted access to the Internet that you are |
| Windows XP based version is also a good deal but it | | | | paying for. |
| may be a little limited. The screen is small and so is the | | | | |