Like other Asus Eee PC series notebooks, the Asus Eee PC 1101HA comes with the company’s Super Hybrid Engine software. This lets you underclock and overclock the CPU to boost performance or prolong battery life depending on your needs at the moment. But there’s one thing that makes the Eee PC 1101HA different – you can tweak a BIOS setting…

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The Asus Eee PC 1101HA laptop is the first member of the Eee PC family to have a BIOS-level utility for adjusting the clock speed. Here’s how it works. MJost Eee PC netbooks have a Windows utility that lets you adjust the clock speed by choosing “power saving,” “high performance,” or “super high performance modes.” On the Eee PC 1101HA,…

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Asus has been shipping a program called the Super Hybrid Engine with all of its Intel Atom powered netbooks since day one. The utility lets users overclock or underclock their machines to provide better battery life or a performance boost depending on their needs. The 11.6 inch Eee PC 1101HA is the first one that lets you customize the overclock…

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Asus has uploaded the user manual for the upcoming Eee PC 1101HA to its global support site. The only catch is that the manual is currently only available in Chinese. Fortunately there are plenty of pretty pictures that help tell the story of this laptop. The Eee PC 1101HA is the first laptop with an 11.6 inch display in the…

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We’ve been puzzling over the “High Definition Mode” in the Asus Eee PC Super Hybrid Engine software ever since a user uncovered an image for the mystery mode tucked away in the executable files. Now that the first netbook to actually make use of the new HD mode is available (in Italy, anyway), the folks at Notebook Italia were kind…

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People have been overclocking the Intel Atom processor used in netbooks ever since it was first released last summer, with some people reporting clock speeds of higher than 2GHz. But Asus has always gone one step further – by offering Eee PC users a handy utility called the Super Hybrid Engine that lets you overclock or underclock the CPU with…

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The Asus Super Hybrid Engine is a software application that comes with Eee PC netbooks running Windows. The utility lets you adjust the computer’s clock and bus speeds so that you can squeeze more battery life or more power out of your computer, depending on your needs at the moment. Normally, you can choose from four settings: Super High Performance…

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Asus makes it relatively painless to adjust the clock speed and enable or disable hardware like the camera or WiFi on most Eee PC models – assuming you’re using Windows XP or Xandros. But if you want to install a different Linux distribution like Ubuntu, Gentoo, or Mandriva, Asus is no help. Fortunately, a Linux hacker has whipped up a…

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The Asus Eee PC 901 and 1000H netbooks ship with a Windows utility called the Asus Super Hybrid Engine that lets you overclock your Eee PC to run at 1.7GHz or underclock your machine to run at 1.2GHz rather than the standard 1.6GHz clock speed. This lets you boost your performance or battery, whichever you need more. But if you’re…

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