UMPC Laptop for US$189 by ASUS!

You saw it right. A truly compact laptop by the well known motherboard maker ASUS at the pricing of US$189, thats roughly only SGD 300!

The ASUS Eee PC 701 has a dimension of 225 x 165 x 21-35 mm, a 7" LCD screen, 512MB of RAM and coupled together with a solid state drive and battery.
Reports like the one from CyberCapital and such mentions that Linux is supplied as a default with Office suite and the Mozilla Firefox browser to complete the usability experience. Furthermore, it is even possible to run Windows XP on the tiny device.

At such a size, it is more enjoyable lugging along a laptop instead to enjoy Free WIFI at Wireless@SG hotspots.

Here's something even more surprising. It takes only 15 seconds to boot up.

I can't wait to lay my hands on this new baby!