Gadget of the Month - June - Asus Eee PC701
July 1, 2007
Well I bet you all thought that our gadget of the month for June was going to be the iPhone, well guess again.
My favourite gadget that we have featured on the site in June has to be the Asus EEE PC701.
Here are a few more pictures of this wonderful notebook.
Your can read the full Specs on the Asus Eee here
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The Asus Eee PC-701 looked great until I saw that it only has a video resolution of 800×480 pixels. Even the “toy” OLPC’s 7.5″ screen has 1200×900 resolution.
Some software will not even run at less than 1024×768 and reading PDF files and web browsing will be made difficult.
Asus needs to rethink the Eee PC-701 screen resolution or at least offer a same size but higher resolution option. This is supposed to be a notebook and not a PDA. 800×480 may have been okay in the 1990’s but it is way behind the technology curve these days.
The OLPC project’s XO is only 1200×900 in black-and-white reflective mode. In transmissive color mode it’s 800×600.
Very little software for Linux requires 1024×768 as a hard lower limit.
I’d happily use a 900Mhz, 7″ laptop with 512MB of RAM as a PDA at $199 rather than pay for a “PDA” such as the Palm Foleo or trying to convince Psion to start the Series 7 or Netbook up again.