Recently the ASUS launched a new laptop, which small in size, collaborate with Intel, created Eee PC. This laptop, currently hit the market, and get lots of positive feedback from the consumers and other experts. From the name Eee, which stands for "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play". Do it really means "Effective, Economic, Entertainment"?
Initially this is a kind of project which is to help children to get cheaper and in more affordable price, since there are so much children are dwelling in under developing country. They are already in problems for getting food and shelter, so where can they get education from and get educated? Therefore, OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is formed by ICT4D non-profit organization, the faculty member of the MIT Media Lab. In short, this project is to help children get educated and ASUS Eee PC is one of the project that supporting the OLPC.
There are currently 4 models in the market, and i planned to discover the laptop model with the highest specification with you folks.
The highest specification of ASUS Eee PC is Eee PC 8G, which built on Intel 910GML series chipset, equipped with Intel Celeron-M ULV 353 processor with up to 900Mhz of clock frequency, which is more than enough to operate a laptop to function and multi-task. Then the laptop comes with a 7 inches TFT LCD screen ( around 800 x 480 pixels) as its console to display whatever the education info for the kids. 1GB of 533/667 DDR2 RAM which upgradeable into 2GB, which is decent enough to have in this education-purpose laptop. Nevertheless, only one slot of DDR2 RAM is included in this laptop's motherboard. Other than that, it comes with a 4 cell Li-Ion battery, which is 5200 mAh and 7.4 volts, it states that this Eee PC can last for 3 h 30 min battery life. Since this laptop is quite small in size, we can expect its weight in range around 920 grams.
However one of the most interesting feature in this laptop is, the storage element in this laptop. This time, ASUS decides to use SSD type of storage element. SSD, which stands for Solid-State drive, which consumes less power, and allows the laptop to boot more quickly than normal laptop, and it is less susceptible to shock damage too, which is a feature that normal laptop didn't have unless you pursue for higher range of laptop. However, 8GB of storage is consider small and not suitable for normal users as current era everything (Application, software, OS, entertainment files) are all in size of Giga Bytes. Even normal storage element has evolved into Tera Bytes (TB). But for education purpose, 8GB is enough to handle every documents. Besides, it also comes with a 0.3 Megapixel webcam which allow video calling via internet. Since this gadget is added in this model, means that wireless feature (Wi-Fi) is available in this model too. Last but not least, this model currently pre-installed with Linux Xandros OS, which cannot be changed into Windows.
For education purpose laptop, this Eee PC sure done a very good job as it provides variety of functions and features to the users, which mainly targeted for children. With all these stuffs, it only sells for USD $425, therefore, i bet lots and lots of kids will be benefited by this laptop and this project. You're lucky IF you're already donating this Eee PC to some of the kids, because you are doing something very good for the society and contribute to the society (to whoever is needed). Although i can't be right now, i will contribute in future. Congrates to all the donators and the project initiator.
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