It’s Small and Thin and Comes in Champagne

By AZADEH ENSHA , New York Times

Published: November 5, 2008

It’s been said that you can never be too rich or too thin, but Asus’s Eee PC S101 netbook gets pretty close to being both.

The S101 weighs in at a waifish 2.2 pounds (0.8 of a pound less than Apple’s MacBook Air) and is 0.7 of an inch thin. Fortunately, the company did not substitute substance for style. The S101 is rich with features, including 20 gigabytes of free online storage, a 16-gigabyte solid-state drive and an integrated flash card reader that accepts four kinds of formats.

The netbook also has a 10.2-inch, LED-backlighted widescreen display fitted for 1024 by 600 WSVGA resolution, and comes with Windows XP.

The S101 costs $700 (with other, chunkier netbooks costing around $400, don’t forget about the “too rich” part). It comes in a choice of three colors: brown, graphite and — as fashion necessitates — champagne. AZADEH ENSHA