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Small but nice
This computer is very nice and when it came in my wife took it. It is good for email when on the road.

What started has a geek toy is very practical.....
I initially bought this mini-laptop as a geek toy for myself that I could use while geocaching. It very quickly turned practical on my trip to the Pacific Northwest. I was the driver for the entire trip and neither one of the kids is good at being a navigator. I put mapping software (DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2009) and a gps onto the laptop. I drove through four states with this little computer guiding the way. It saved a lot of frustration not to mention the car was not cluttered with paper.

The wireless works great. At one point, we were in Seattle and needed to make hotel reservations. I whipped out the laptop, quickly found a hot spot and was on my way to making reservations.

Even a month after the trip this little laptop has continued to be quite useful. I use it primarily for managing my geocaching ([...]), email and light web browsing.
I love the fact that this laptop can fit in my purse, but its size makes it difficult to type and view web pages without scrolling left and right.

The speakers on the asus are pretty decent for its size, but then I'm not an audiophile. I enjoy listening to internet radio and music (try [...]). It sounds just fine to my ears.

The biggest con I can find with this unit is that I was expecting the battery life to be longer. With continous use my estimates came in at about 3 hours tops while using it as a gps navigator in the car.

This little computer is a great addition to a desktop computer or a larger laptop. It won't replace either of them. It has neither the horse power nor the size to make that happen.

I would recommend buying an SD card (I have an 8 GB), because from the get go there is only about 1.7 GB available for use. Even after getting rid of Microsoft Works, Microsoft Live and a couple other things there was only about 2GB.

Great laptop
This laptop is perfect for me. It is small and lightweight, does everything I need it to. I had considered a nokia, but I needed an ethernet port for testing and such. The screen is actually very readable (this was my biggest fear)and the audio is loader than any other laptop I have come across. I had considered the Linux model, but I have too many USB apps for Windows that I use. This laptop is perfect for that as I use my USB stick for all applications and data, I rarely actually install anything in Windows. The keyboard needed a little getting used to, I tend to use the right shift key and it is small. I have no complaints and use it everyday for work and pleasure. I am very pleased with this laptop and highly recommend it.

very good, simple and efective
a computer asus is a great idea, just left buy the new model that is more beautifil and powerful, the hard is very small ( 4 GB ridicuolus), please if you buy, buy with 20 GB hard drive. I dont know, my battery is so poor, 2 hours or minus, and I suggest put 01 USB more, and the properties of table pc, and bluetooh. But I recomend this product, but with 20 GB.

Eee Pc Pearl White 4G XP
We bought this computer for my mother as a Mother's Day present. As she has never owned her very own computer, this gift went over extremely well. I personally own the same model in galaxy black and with a Linux OS but have little to no complaints with either.

The few complaints I have for the XP model are as follows:

1) Some computer windows (not the OS) do not display properly on the small screen (i.e., the print option window - once opened the user must hit enter and hope the "print" button is highlighted. This problem is fixed when using an external monitor and is merely an inconvenience as it only happens to some things in certain situations)

2) The wonderful SD Slot has issues writing to high speed SD Cards and especially those 8 GB and greater. This interesting problem seems to have more to do with either the XP OS or the card reader itself. ASUS Tech Support thinks it's an operator error; however, after reading other wikis on the issue, I have come to find that this is a problem for many other users. I find it interesting that my Linux Eee pc has no problems whatsoever reading and writing to the 16 GB SD Card.

But like I said, these are the only issues I've had (and they are quite marginal). ASUS Tech Support is great, the wikis created by fellow users are fantastic and I couldn't be more pleased with the durability and flexibility our Eee PCs have and will provide!