ASUS eeePC torture test

[Lemur]

Stephen Fry, of all people, has a column about the eeePC. Go figure.

I am writing this article on a kind of mini John the Baptist, a system that prepares the way of the software saviour whose coming will deliver the 90% of world computer users who suffer under Windows from the expensive, clumsy, costly, ugly, pricey toils of Microsoft.

The Asus EEE PC perched on my knee combines GNU software with a Linux kernel powered by an Intel Celeron Mobile Processor to produce a very extraordinary little laptop. It weighs less than a kilogram, starts up from cold in about 12 seconds and shuts down in five. It has no internal hard disk and no CD drive.

Well, skimming over it, clearly he's talking about the previous iteration of the eeePC, but it's still a great read. What's not to love about a column that describes a laptop as John the Baptist?

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I see there's another Dork Talk column on the most recent version of the eeePC.