Review: Asus E402MA

By Ben Stinson

Introduction and design

There was once a time when nothing but netbooks consumed the sub-£200 ($300/AUS$411) price bracket, but fortunately Microsoft and its partners have recently done a lot to drive down the price of larger, considerably more usable laptops.

With the advent of true cloud applications such as Office 365, and a variety of streaming services that have quickly overtaken locally-stored media, lean machines such as the Asus E402MA are making ground at the budget end of the market alongside similar notebooks like the smaller Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11.

Packing a 14.6-inch screen, the E402MA has a relatively modest set of specifications: a quad-core Intel N3540 M processor clocked at up to 2.66GHz is paired with merely 2GB of RAM and a rather paltry 32GB of storage.

Of course, it was never intended for users to rely on the local storage, as out of the box it is already largely consumed by Windows – users will need to take full advantage of online applications in order to make the most of this cheap-as-chips machine.

Fortunately, a one-year subscription of Office 365 and 5GB of Asus WebStorage are …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac