O Asus O - Asus Eee Pc 701Sd 8G Xp - Galaxy Black

This is a very lightweight, small netbook computer. It has received many positive reviews. The computer itself would rate 5 stars, however the high price would rate it a 1 star.

People, please compare prices. Amazon makes this very easy. If you want to spend this much money on an ASUS netbook, perhaps you should also look at the ASUS 1000-HE model.

Upgraded the ram, installed windows, and overclocked it. Able to run all my work apps. Runs Unreal tournament 2004, Morrowind, and Fable at playable framerates.

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well, it wasn't BLACK, it was WHITE, which is okay, i don't really care about color.

however it WAS advertised as "REFURBIISHED". i looked up Amazon's definition of 'Refurbished', and i don't think this product met the criteria. Specifically, the cable from the power supply was twisted into a dramatic pretzel shape throughout its entire length, and the outer jacketing had begun to disintegrate, revealing the ground braid around the inner conductor. Also, there was no original packaging with the product. Other than that, i didn't find any obvious defects. "Used, Fair condition, power cable shows some wear" would have been a more honest description.

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I have this little netbook. Its great for basics like internet,video chat,internet radio,basic gaming,and email. The ssd is very small of 8 gig. Also with Win XP Home on it from the install CD it is very slow. More ram helps,but best to install Joli OS,Leeenix,Puppeee,Android X86, or Win XP Pro from install cd. I did this and now it flies with 1 gig of ram! Cause it is small,it is kinda hard to type on unless you have small hands. I love how small it is and easy to carry.

With external combo drive,you can watch DVD or burn CD's.

I use mine in my room just for basics.

I bought mine refurbished for $129,but just bought another used one for $89.

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This was one of the first netbooks that actually worked with a trimmed down version of XP.

It was largely limited to CPU and power consumption though.

Played back upto regular DVD resolutions (720x512 pixels), or 480pix; when overclocked using EEECTL plays back some 720p video, though most is with lagging.

Qua games, most DX9 games on a low resolution can be played on it, and in a limited way Dosbox games can be played too.

The best about this netbook is it's blazing fast SSD,

The worst is it's small sized 8GB SSD.

This netbook needs an SSD and RAM upgrade.

A 2GB 667Mhz DDR2 SODIMM ram stick works fine, Some 800Mhz SoDimm sticks I tried do hang up on them though (meaning freeze or crash)..

Aside from that, it still works great as a home theatre projector driver for standard DVD-quality video's and TV shows (at 800x600pix).

Also as bittorrent client, or personal webserver; or even as a basic midi router/samplebox!

But the device is largely outdated, and you constantly need to struggle with harddisk and ram space issues.