Asus Eee PC 2G Surf

The Eee PC 2G Surf is a netbook designed by ASUS. The name Eee derives from “the three Es,” an abbreviation of its advertising slogan for the device: “Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play”. The Asus Eee PC 2G Surf is manufactured by Pegatron Technology and developed by ASUSTek Computer Inc. This netbook measures 8.86 inch x 6.30 inch x 0.79-1.26 inch and weighs 2.0 lbs. There’s a 4400 mAh Battery of 4-cell that comes with this netbook. There are three versions of this model and they are the 2G, 4G and 8G units. They are available in the following colors, black, white, pink, blue and green. This netbooks comes with a restore disk, driver disk (for Windows installs) and documentation. The Asus Eee PC 2G Surf can be purchased at a starting price of $299.

Specifications
Asus has always promoted the Eee netbook series to be easy to work, easy to learn and easy to play. It has 10/100 Ethernet and 802.11b/g wireless. It comes with a VGA port and an SD Card Slot that supports SDHC. The Celeron-M 800 MHz operates at 571 MHz. System memory of this Eee netbook is at 512MB. There’s a flash memory reader slot whereby users can use an SD memory card to write or read. This netbook comes with a 4400 mAh 4-cell unit that can last for about 2.5 hours. The battery can be upgraded to a 5600 mAh which can last for about 3.5 hours.

Display
The display is a 7-inch LCD monitor that comes with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

Design
It looks a little like the Apple on the outside with its clean look. The Asus Eee PC 2G Surf is 8.86 inch x 6.30 inch x 0.79-1.26 inch (W x H x D) in dimension and weighs approximately 2.0 lbs. They are available in the following colors, black, white, pink, blue and green.

Power
The power supply of the Asus Eee PC 2G Surf consists of a 4 cell 4400mAh which is capable of lasting up to 2.8 hours.

System
This device comes with an 800 MHz Intel Celeron ULV processor. It has a 512 MB DDR2 RAM and 2 GB Solid State Disk. Chipset in this netbook is the Intel 910GML and it comes with integrated graphics that has shared memory. The system takes around thirty seconds to boot and about nine seconds to shut off. There’s a 2GB of storage in this device. The keyboard comes with a single mouse button.

Network & Connections
The Asus Eee PC 2G Surf allows user to stay connected with the built-in WiFi 802.11 b/g Wireless LAN that automatically detects and connects to the Internet at any hotspot. It also includes a 10/100Mbps LAN connection. It features 3 built-in USB ports, 1 VGA Video port, 1 audio jack out and 1 audio jack in for the audio ports.

Other Features
Other features include a built-in stereo speaker, a Hi-Definition Audio CODEC and a built-in MMC/SD (SDHC) card reader. This netbooks comes with a restore disk, driver disk (for Windows installs) and documentation. In this netbook, there is already a microphone ready to be used with Instant Messaging applications such as MSN, Yahoo or Skype which is already installed in the netbook. Users who want their netbooks to come ready with an integrated webcam should be ready to pay a little more for that extra feature. On this netbook, users can create their own shortcut to any of their most used-programmes. Then these tabs can be accessed through the home icon on the taskbar or it can also be accessed by clicking the home key on the keyboard.

Review

“Consider this a buy and avoid recommendation at the same time. Avoid the 2G and consider the 4G and 8G variants. Our 2G Eee PC is a dead end. While it does some things reasonably well, for an extra $50 or $100 you will be happier with the 4G models. With a smaller Linux distribution installed your experience might differ, but we are talking out of the box experience here. Considered in that context, I can’t recommend the 2G model. If you really want to tweak and have fun, the 4 and 8G models still offer more possibilities and are easier to recommend.
In addition to being slightly faster, the 4G and 8G versions have a superior processor (speed and level 2 cache). In some cases they have socketed RAM and Storage for expandability. Having played around with an 8G Eee PC running Windows XP I can say that the difference in performance was noticeable.” (NotebookReview, 2008)