 Add another once Windows-only PC distributor to the Linux hit list. Thanks to the new Asus Eee Laptop, Best Buy, the Richfield, Minnesota based corporation, is selling Linux on their website (you can check out the web page here). In 2007, Asus sold over 300,000 copies of the Linux laptop, and they're predicting that they will sell several million more this year. The lightweight laptop featuring a solid state drive has become a darling of the subnotebook market; with a 7-inch display, 512 mb of memory and the Linux Xandros operating system, the Eee is popping up everywhere. Best Buy is selling three versions of the Asus Eee laptop: the pink, the white, and the galaxy black models.
The Asus Eee Laptops being sold by Best Buy come featured with an Intel Celeron M Processor, 512 MB of DDR2 memory, 7" widescreen display, 4GB solid state drive, built-in webcam, and the Linux operating system. Weighing in at only 2lbs, the laptop is great for day-to-day traveling. The hardware might not seem much, if you're used to the high demands of a Windows-based PC, but for Linux, 512 MB of memory and a 4GB hard drive is plenty. You won't be using the laptop for much server-based work or playing any 3D accelerated games, but that's not what the laptop is about. It's about having e-mail, internet, chat, word processors, and other applications that you need day-to-day while traveling, or working out of an office, or while on a trip. Too many modern laptops are getting bigger and bigger. A lot of people use their laptop as a second computer; they don't travel with it. They just leave it in an office or any other convenient location. They're not concerned with lightweight, speedy, easy to carry. Personally, I want a laptop to stay small; I want to be able to pick it up and bring it with me on the subway or while I'm out to lunch. I want to have a means by which I can accomplish all my online tasks, and I don't want to use a miniscule mobile phone or a giant gaming laptop that weighs more than a bowling ball. I want to use a laptop like the Asus Eee that I can carry around like a paper back book, conveniently hold it in one hand, flip it open, and get ready to go without the fuss of more hardware intensive laptops. Am I the only one thinking of the song "Another one bites the dust"? How many more PC sellers that were once Windows only will start including great Linux-driven products like the Asus Eee laptop? We've already seen companies like Dell and Sears make the plunge. Let's hope that the trend continues. Only registered users can write comments.
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