The Eee PC (And The Netbook Category) Turns 2. LAPTOP Throws Birthday Bash.
November 4th, 2009 by K. T. Bradford 
On November 1st two years ago, the first Eee PC 701 arrived on American shores just a couple of weeks after its debut overseas. The 7-inch, Linux-based mini-notebook garnered a lot of attention and a great deal of praise. At the time, laptops that small usually came with soaring price tags. The Eee PC changed the game, offering true mobile computing for around $400.
This year we’re once again celebrating the birth of the Eee PC and the netbook revolution it began. In just two years the mini-notebook category has grown from a small family of computers running Linux to an entire category of systems running several different Linux distributions plus Windows XP, 7, even Vista. Screen sizes quickly shot up from 7 to 8.9 to 10, 11.6 and even 12 inches. Netbooks have changed the tech world from manufacturers down to journalists and, of course, consumers. The new category has taken 20 percent of the market in two years, and netbooks keep evolving.
Just as with last year, we wanted to mark the occasion with an Eee PC birthday bash at LAPTOP HQ. We filmed the occasion and took the opportunity to ask our writers and editors, who have viewed more 10-inch screens than most people, what netbooks have meant to them and what they expect from netbooks in the future. Check it out:
Help us celebrate the birth of the netbook: create a video telling or showing us how netbooks have changed your life, which netbook is your favorite, or describe your ideal netbook. You can post videos to our Facebook page wall (you’ll have to become a fan first) or on YouTube.
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November 4th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
No one invited the OLPC XO!?
November 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I belive the true netbook is (unfortunatly) dead. Most netbooks today ship with lots of horsepower and resources that rival notebooks – but this totally defies the netbook definition.
Some people still prefer more battery hours and less noise and heat. I belive a big vilain was the revival of XP for netbooks that required beefier specs. I dont mind programming in a 7 inch screen at all. What I dont want is my system to run out of power before I get my work done just becouse Im using a big 12 inch screen and the system is full of useless bells and whistles.
One last thing to note is that the prices raised as the so called netbooks started to look more like regular notebooks. I remeber buying my 701 2G Surf for 300 CDN (Canadian dollars, for the ones who doesnt know) and now Im afraid of what will happen the day my EeePC doesnt work anymore? I dont want to carry some clunky pseudo-netbook that will only service me for 1 hour and a half before failing and cost a hefty price for something I dont want.
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:28 am
sooooo incredibly lightweight and easy to carry, the first time i carried it across campus it just felt plain weird, like i had in my hands some alien technology that shouldnt exist yet. and the battery? well, you probably already guessed it, but it lasts an eternity. the time ive owned it, i actually havent heard the fan yet, so its pretty darn quiet. This is the only thing i carry to class anymore, besides maybe an energy drink.
-ok, i know its not exclusive to this pc, but ive never video chatted before, and since i got this thing, ive been able to see and talk to my girlfriend on the computer on a daily basis, since her college is quite a ways away. Her computer is a top of the line notebook that never leaves her desk because of bulkiness and pathetic battery life, so her only backdrop is the block wall of her dorm XD but with this eeepc, she never sees me in the same place twice, and almost all of the time im outside, far from buildings (which really says something about the wireless card. i d