ASUS Eee Top, Four Stars but with A Ton..

Overall Rating44444

Four Stars but with A Ton of Reservations (Revised)

I bought this computer because my HP was 2005 vintage littered with all kinds of software. I really like Ausus & like the idea of an all in one. I have a thing about finger prints on monitors so the lack of touch screen was not a minus. This computer has the NVIDIA ION engine & I like the idea of “enhanced graphics”

So what’s not to like? The computer graphics are no better or worse than those on my HP I have been using. That computer had Intel enhanced graphics & a top of the line Samsung monitor new in 2008. I expected the Asus to run circles are the old computer but they are about equal which is excellent graphics rendering.

And the Asus-with its Atom processor dual core still strains in ripping CDs. It has a nice internal speaker system-better than average but not exceptional.

So the bottom line is that this computer is aethetically pleasing but its performance is nothing special. I guess my expectations were higher than what was delivered. But the kicker was that the computer’s over all performance was no better than what I already had. So the computer is fine but so is my software cluttered old computer.

UPDATE: When I reviewed this computer-I was unaware that the C Drive Partition on this computer was 40 Gig. The Data Partition was 250Gig. That is How this computer was set up by Asus at the factory. By defualt-Programs you download go to the C- Not the D partition. Who cares? If you own this computer-you will. What happens is that the C partition is way too small, and overflows. Asus Tech support stinks and they offer no remedy. You can repartition but you need to download third party software. I would NOT buy this Asus model under any circumstances. One star if I could re-rate this review.

Update (5/19/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, ASUS Eee Top ET2002-B0017 20-Inch Black All-in-One Desktop PC Windows 7 Home Premium Personal Computers, was written by charlie anderson.

The average rating for this item is 4 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (3)

solaas

January 24th, 2010 at 2:08 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Very good value.
I bought this computer primarly for the kids to get internet access, elearning and watching TV. And after 2 weeks feedback, I conclude that it’s perfect for that.
Before I bought it I looked at the 2 reviews that were there and they are correct (thank you guys): this PC is not a super-killer beast, but it does the job fine. Beautiful screen, brights graphics, nice look (my wife who is on the Mac side was expecting a gray industrial box and was I think pleasantly surprised - and the kids as well). The price is right . It installed very easily (meaning, the kids - 9 and 7 - turned on the power, put batteries in the mouse and keyboard, and it went). It even recognised my printer without me installing drivers etc… The camera works very well, the loudspeakers and mic we attached as well. Only good surprises. ( I might have low expectations - my background is 20 years of usage of various unglorious corporate PCs and their “liberated” cousins that we bought back from our employers to use at home. So I might be easy to impress!)
Btw, it is not mentioned in the specs, but of course it comes with a wifi adapter. It also comes with Windows 7 (apparently there was debate on that at some stage).

My only grudge is that - as stated in another review - the disk partitioning is indeed insane. It goes beyond the problem of storing programs : because all the Windows users are in the C: partition, all the docs are piling in a small C: 40Gb and the D : 250 Gb partition sits unused.

Anyway, I rate it 5 stars, for less than $600 it’s a good deal and here at home we all like it.


Jinhong Shin

February 17th, 2010 at 7:23 pm    


Overall Rating33333

Just worth its price. But don’t trust ASUS
I’ve been using this product for more than a month. I think it’s just worth its price. I’m quite satisfied with this product for most aspects, but let me tell you something. Atom is an Atom. Every recent software requires more and more resources. For the most of the works, you may not find any difficulty, but the delay I always feel when I scroll a webpage with Firefox is really annoying. Do not expect too much on this low-end CPU. However, it has quite a good graphic card, that it doesn’t have any problem with full-resolution movie or Google Earth. I don’t know about 3D games, ‘cus I don’t play any of them.

This is critical part. This model comes with a beautiful wireless keyboard and mouse. They’re cute, and some say they got some kind of design award. I can agree on that. But one day they stopped working. I tried every way I can find on the web, but they never got back. I could send them back to ASUS support, but I know them. It takes more than a month to get my computer back. And they don’t tell us anything about what the problem was, and what they actually fixed. I suffered it with my ASUS netbook. When it comes back from the support, it gets another problem. No, I’ll never send my computer to ASUS support unless I have a real critical problem with it. So I just bought a new keyboard and mouse.

Otherwise, it’s fine. Bright wide display and good performance with reasonable price. What else do you need?


charlie anderson

February 22nd, 2010 at 6:24 am    


Overall Rating44444

Four Stars but with A Ton of Reservations (Revised)
Rated 4 stars.


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