{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-17T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T22:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elearning4bradford.edublogs.org\/2008\/01\/17\/asus-eee-pc\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T22:50:12","slug":"asus-eee-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"ASUS &#8211; Eee PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/eeepc.asus.com\/global\/images\/news\/news01142008-2.jpg\" height=\"129\" width=\"153\" \/>This is the latest piece of equipment I am evaluating, the Eee PC is a Mobile Internet Device that offers many of the advantages of mobile computing.<\/p>\n<p>I am particularly interested in how it might work for our learners. It is easy to setup and learning how to use it takes less than 5 minutes. It has excellent Wi-fi connectivity and this is enhanced by its fast operating system &#8211; Linux &#8211; (there is also an option to install WindowsXP) and 512mb (DDR2) memory. There is no hard-drive. Instead the Eee uses Solid State Disk storage which comes in 4gb or 8gb &#8211; it boots very quickly and is pretty shock-proof (although I&#8217;ve not tested this!). The 7inche screen has a built-in webcam, excellent audio and its packed with useful applications.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most remarkable feature though is its price &#8211; it retails round the \u00a3220 mark. Full testing, as part of a wider exercise, for example by a group of 10 students, is planned &#8211; findings will be posted here. My findings so far are very positive &#8211; it could be a very useful tool for learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest piece of equipment I am evaluating, the Eee PC is a Mobile Internet Device that offers many of the advantages of mobile computing. I am particularly interested in how it might work for our learners. It is easy to setup and learning how to use it takes less than 5 minutes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}