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Construction & Design

First impression


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The computer is black and white, and looks much like the other models in the Eee series. It weighs just under a kilo and seems to be sturdily built. One of the first things you notice is of course the rotatable display (rotates 180 degrees horizontally and vertically, so you can e.g. place it face-up upon the keyboard). The display is tightly and securely fastened, and the device seems very good in terms of quality as well.
Once I got the computer running and had a chance to move around in Windows, I quickly got the impression that it somewhat weak in terms of performance. It generally takes a while to load programs, and standard close and open dialogues took several seconds to appear. These issues are reflected in the benchmarks, which we will get to later.

The lid


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The lid has a white, reflecting surface with the Asus logo located just above the middle.

The front


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At the front we have the card reader that supports MMC, SD and SDHC formats.

The rear


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At the rear we have a Kensington lock slot, followed by a VGA port.

The bottom


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We only have access to the RAM module at the bottom.

The right side


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From the left we first have the included stylus for the display, audio jack-out for headphones, audio jack-in for a microphone, 1x USB 2.0 and an RJ-45 port for wired LAN.