In a little twist from the usual Eee PC coverage, where for the most part we have seen praise towards anything related to the Eee, this time we have found a little frustration which comes courtesy of the Eee PC 2G Surf edition. The frustration has lead to the return of the notebook and given us a list of ”10 reasons not to buy the Asus Eee PC 2G Surf.”
- Performance: The 2G Surf has an 800MHz CPU underclocked to run at 571MHz, as opposed to the 900MHz Intel Celeron M processors underclocked to 633MHz found in the other Eee PC’s.
- Available Storage: Has a 2GB flash drive with only about 360MB available.
- Fewer Applications: The 2G is missing the eBook, World Clock, Mail, Notes, Science, Sound Recorder, Webcam, Sudoku, Crack Attack, LTris and Voice Command applications.
- Soldered RAM: The RAM in the 2G model is soldered in and cannot be changed or upgraded. The 4G has easy access to the RAM with the ability to easily upgrade it to 1GB.
- Battery Life: The 2G offers up to 2.8 hours as compared to the 3.5 hours on the 4G. Of course in real world use we can assume both of these to be lower.
The next few reasons are fairly similar between the 4G and 2G models, as I have had my own issues with the 4G. They deal with the space bar, hard to use touchpad and hard to use mouse buttons which are due in part to their small size. Moving on from that we have the boot time, which could be a little better, but most important is the overall price.
Basically, the value of the Eee PC models comes down to the $50 difference between the 2G and 4G models. The 4G Eee PC retails for $349, while the 2G Eee PC retails for $299 and it seems that little price difference makes up for a good number of lost features. In short is seems that you should save the extra $50 and just purchase the 4G model.
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