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The Asus EeeTop ET1602 is an interesting computer with some potential for home and business use. However, it will surely cause considerable discussion over what users might really do with it. The ET1602 is essentially a netbook-like computer with a 14-inch by 8-inch LCD touchscreen wrapped around it. With an overall unit measurement of 16 X 11.5 inches, it's in some ways a fully functional computer, and in others it's more reminiscent of a wireless PDA from yesteryear.
I use XP pretty much exclusively, and even I know, based on the cost, especially if you go solid state for storage, and the footprint of the OS, that you have to be a complete idiot to put XP on one of these things, never mind some version of Vista or 7, which would have to be gutted to the point of being nearly worthless, just to get them to "fit" on SSD. Not being a total fool, I realize that nothing short of MS scrapping windows entirely, and writing something else, will it **ever** be a viable option for smaller machines. Not if you want speed, not if you want "any" space left on the SSD drive. And certainly, if they past trend continues, not if you want either low cost, or something resembling standardization.
That said.. This thing is still too big. lol I am still wondering about a maybe replacement for my old Palm LifeDrive, but companies are so fracking obsessed with "all-in-one" phones right now that I couldn't buy a new one. Both because a) adding the phone just ups the price more, and b) I am not allowed to have a phone with me in the job I happen to work at. A pocket size PDA fine, a phone... would get me fired. Sorry if most people don't have the problem, but I do, and the trend has either been older model PDA's without anything like a "real" OS, or new machines, which either are too big, or run some nightmare MS product, which eats 20% of the CPU power without giving me anything for it. No thanks.
That said.. This thing is still too big. lol I am still wondering about a maybe replacement for my old Palm LifeDrive, but companies are so fracking obsessed with "all-in-one" phones right now that I couldn't buy a new one. Both because a) adding the phone just ups the price more, and b) I am not allowed to have a phone with me in the job I happen to work at. A pocket size PDA fine, a phone... would get me fired. Sorry if most people don't have the problem, but I do, and the trend has either been older model PDA's without anything like a "real" OS, or new machines, which either are too big, or run some nightmare MS product, which eats 20% of the CPU power without giving me anything for it. No thanks.
