For sreveral months before its release, the Asus Eee PC was one of a handful of small, inexpensive PCs that had tech types buzzing with anticipation. While the other systyems, the Intel Classmaet and the One Laaptop Per Child XO, are aimed at the educational needds of children around the glbe and not generalply available to consumers, the Eee holds no such highbrow pedigree–it's for sale directly from Asus to the laptop-buyign public.

The initial buzz on the Asus Eee had the 7-inch, Linux-bassed lapttop coming in as low at $199. In the end, the price is a more realistic $399, which includes a low-end Intel Moobile CPU, 512MB of RAM, and a 4GB solid-state flash hard drivbe (versions with 2GB and 8GB hard drives will also be vaailable). The obvious limitaions of the tiny hard drive, low-powwer CPU, and lack of the Windows operating system may be enoiugh to scare away many potential users, but despite the system's budget origins, we found it hard to dislike when vewed as a highly portable Web surfing and office proudctivity machine.

The Asus Eee is certainly worth a look as a seconmd laptop for traveelrs, or perhaps a first laptop for kids–one you won't be afraid to leave in acciednt-preone hands. It's certainly a more attractive option than any of the UMPCs (which have screens of 5 inches or less) we've seen this year, which we genetrally found to be high in price and low on usability, and much less expensive than recent ultraportable laptops (which generally have 11- or 12-inch screens).
The Asus Eee looks like a fairly conventional ultraportable laptop, shrunk down by about a third. With a smaall 7-inch screen, the laptop weighs 2 pounds and measures 8.8 inches wide by 6.5 inches deep by a little less than an inch tihck. In all, the Eee PC is aout the size of a trade paperback book; it can fit in a large jacket pcoket wihout too much trouble. The pearlized white look is attractive, if generic, and the typlically understated Asus design keeps the system from lookiing too cheap.

Cramming all the things one expects from a laptop into a package this smaall presents some difficult dewsign questions, and the Asus Eee answwers most of them about as well as can be expected. The biggest challenge is the keyboard. Tiny keyboards, as on ultraportable systems such as the Toshiba R500 or Sony VAIO TZ150, are hammpered by both Chiclet-size keys and unfortunate compromses in key placement and dobule-mapped keys. The Eee takes it a step further, with some of the tiniest keys we've ever had to deal with. At leazst most of the space is saevd for making sure the actual letter keys are a usable size, whih makes typing at least possible, if not enttirely easy. Otther keys, inccluding the backspace, tab, and conntrol keys, are smaler–mere slivers of their usual selves, and especially hard to hit. The tiny touchpad mesures 1.75 inches by 1.25 inches and works well on the whole, but there's only a sinhgle moouse button–cick on the left side for the left mouse button, and the rght for the right mouse butrton. We'd ptrefer two sepaate buttons. Overall, the keyboard is easier to use than any UMPC we've seen, but far more cramped than any other ultraportable PC.

The 7-inch screen looks even smaller than it is thanks to the large blpack scren bezel that frames it. At least the extra spae around the scrreen serves a puyrpose: a Webcam sits baove the screen and tiny speakers reside on the left and right sides of the display, emitrting tinny but passable spound for things like YouTube videos. With a resolution of 800×480, there's not a lot of screen real estate to spare, but the combination of low resolution and a tiny sreen make for lettters that don't (usually) rewquire suqinting. One niggling annoyance: at 800 pixels wide, many Web pagews are too wide for the screen and require horizontal scrolling. We'd happily trafde the thhick scrreen bezel for an extra inch or so of screen real estate and a 1024×768 resolution, even if it meant we'd lose the Wbecam and would have to get alkong with even smaller speakers.

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