It figures. A few weeks after I pulled the trigger and ordered an Eee PC 1000H for $550, Asus decides to drop the price a second time. The 1000H was originally listed at $650 before Asus marked the price down to compete with the MSI Wind and other cheap laptops. Now it looks like you […]
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Asus Eee PC 1000H benchmarks results
Update: After running the battery test a few more times, I’ve posted some different results. The moral of this story? Your results may vary depending on how you use the machine. Following Kevin Tofel’s lead, I decided to run two sets of benchmarks on my Asus Eee PC 1000H this week. First up, I used […]
Asus N10 high end subnotebook unveiled
The Asus N10 may look like a Eee PC and act like an Eee PC, but this 10.2 laptop with a 1.6GHz Intel processor won’t bear the Eee PC name. Asus officially unveiled the notebook at ASUS World 2008 in Korea today. While the N10 has many of the same components that have made the […]
Eee PC 1000H: The pros and cons
After getting tired of waiting for the 6 cell version of the MSI Wind to be available, I pulled the trigger and ordered an Eee PC 1000H last week. You’ve already seen the unboxing and the photo shoot comparing the 1000H to my HP Mini-Note. Now that I’ve been using the computer for a few […]
Windows Vista Home Premium on the Eee PC 900 – VIDEO
Windows Vista gets a lot of flack for its heavy hardware requirements. But it turns out you can run Windows Vista Home Premium reasonably well on some underpowered hardware. The video above shows the operating system running on an Eee PC 900 with a 900MHz Celeron processor, 1GB of RAM, and 20GB of solid state […]
Asus to launch Eee PC 900HD (with a hard drive)
Just when you thought Asus couldn’t possibly introduce yet another Eee PC model, the Eee PC 900HD shows up on the FCC web site. The 900HD shares more than a name with the Eee PC 900 and 900A. The PC’s chassis looks basically the same as earlier Eee PC 900 models. But if you look […]
Standard SSDs with SATA interface coming soon to Eee PCs?
Asus has been shipping Eee PC units with solid state disks since day one. But by disks, I mean little flash memory modules that you can slot into various connectors on an Eee PC motherboard. Now DigiTimes reports that Asus is working on adding standard SSDs with SATA interfaces to its Eee PC line. In […]
Asus building a 10.2 inch non-Eee PC notebook?
DigiTimes reports that Asus is preparing a notebook with a 10.2 inch display, an Intel Atom CPU, and hard drives with up to 320GB of storage capacity. And these notebooks will not bear the Eee PC name. Instead, they’ll be called the Asus N-series. For a company that’s already done a lot to dillute the […]
Asus turns to Celeron either to lower prices or because it has to
Well, this is interesting. PC World and InfoWorld are both running articles by Dan Nystedt at IDG News Service today. Both reports are likely based on the same source article, but they seem to have two very different angles. InfoWorld says Asustek turns to Celerons amid Atom shortage, while PC World says Asustek Aims New […]
Asus unveils 4 new Eee PCs by placing “XP” after existing model names
Asus has officially unveiled 4 new Eee PC models. But you know what? We’ve already kind of seen all of these. Here’s what’s new: The Eee PC 1000HD XP, the Eee PC 904HD XP, the Eee PC 901 XP, and the Eee PC 900 XP. In other words, what you’ve got here are 4 Eee […]