Meet PhoEeebe, My New Hot Taiwanese Babe

No long story tonight; I just want to quickly introduce you to my new love interest:

Meet PhoEebe, my new mini-notebook, made in Taiwan.

It is an Asus HA900 with 160GB hard drive, Intel Atom Processor, 1GB memory (can take up to 2GB), built in speakers, mic and webcam, built in Wi-Fi (they all do these days so no biggie). It runs Windows XP which I am glad about (because Vista is not all that great it seems). And it is fast! The startup and shut down is faster than any other computer I've owned. It is quieter than my Toshiba (the Atom processors use energy differently so the heatloss is a lot less, i.e. less fan sound). And the battery life, although they claim 5hrs, I still get about 4hrs on one full charge which is way more than any other notebook I've owned.

They come in three colours (I think): pearl white, black and pink. I got the pink one just because I'm tired of the standard computer colours and I wanted something sexy, not masculine. Imagine the eyes turning in Starbucks when I whip out my pink mini-notebook and put it on the table next to my coffee! Ahh...

You can check it out (or buy it) from Amazon.com for a really good price in the USA. They have a much more detailed description of this baby than I'm giving with a lot of good reviews at the site as well.

Do I need another notebook? No. So why did I get it? Because I. am. a. technology. geek. Period.

And I wanted to see how well a $300 computer would run.

And it runs! It kicks ass, actually.

It has more HD storage than my $2500 desktop replacement Toshiba Dynabook (which I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE), and is uber easy to carry around with me. In fact, it is smaller than a lot of hardcover books.

It is very light @ about 1.2kg (2.5lbs). Even the power cord and that annoying ginormous power box that goes with notebooks is miniaturized so transport is more painless than anything I have experienced. One thing I have always hated about traveling with notebooks is that they end up being an entire piece of luggage on their own. Not anymore! I can even slip this in my backpack and write my thoughts deep in the mountains if I so desire.

Sure the keyboard is tiny, and because I'm a 10 finger blind typist (and pretty fast) I hit a lot of double keys at the same time, but that's minor. The purpose was not to write billion character blogs, or essays or MBA research papers. Nope. The purpose is to have something small that I can take with me easily, or travel with and connect with YOU!

This would really be an awesome computer for kids because they have smaller fingers than we do

 

I love PhoEeebe.

And I. Love. You!

Cam