Asus Eee PC 1000HE Reviewed

Asus Eee PC 1000HE is the latest model of the Eee PC netbook series. The 1000HE is powered by an Atom N280 1.66GHz processor, 1GB of memory, Intel GD40 graphics and a 160GB hard drive. It includes WiFi and a 10-inch LCD display. The Eee PC 1000HE offers up to 9.5 hours of battery life.

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The 10-inch 1000HE has been reviewed by several site:
PCMag says:

When I tested the EeePC 1000HE’s battery performance in our Labs, I found it very impressive….The ASUS EeePC 1000HE makes fewer compromises than other netbooks, and the value you get—in terms of design, typing experience, and battery life, among others—for an excellent price will be tough to beat.

NotebookReview says:

ASUS made some good improvements to the 1000HE, most notably the newer keyboard. The keyboard is more comfortable to type on over the old style and the improved spacing helps to reduce typing errors. The design has few changes, with some areas gaining glossy paint over a matte finish before, but the average user might not tell the difference unless both were sitting next to each other. The newer Intel Atom processor with a faster clock speed and faster bus speed had little improvement in our benchmarks over its predecessor and HD content is still unfeasible unless you are playing low bitrate videos. The battery life also improved by a wide margin, moving past seven hours under normal use, which is the greatest out of any netbook we have reviewed. Overall I would say ASUS has an impressive new netbook and a very affordable starting price.

Pros:

* Awesome battery life (7 hours and 36 minutes under normal use!)
* Comfortable new keyboard design
* Faster Intel N280 Atom processor

Cons:

* Elantech touchpad has some minor lag under fast movement
* Processor, although faster, still isn’t very powerful
* Not as small as Sony VAIO P

LaptopMag says:

With the Eee PC 1000HE, ASUS offers one of the best values in netbooks around. This system features a vastly improved keyboard, and its trackpad and touch buttons are better than most systems in its class. Although the processor doesn’t add much in the way of performance, we’ll take it. More important, the 1000HE lasts more than 7 hours on a charge.

In the field of sub-$500 netbooks, the $399 Eee PC 1000HE is a very good choice. Ultimately, we prefer the Samsung NC10 because it offers an even better keyboard and a thinner and lighter design, even though it costs $50 more and its battery doesn’t last quite as long. Others may prefer the 10-inch Acer Aspire One, which costs only $349 (although we don’t yet know the final battery runtime). It’s a bit bulky, but buyers will be happy with this attractive, good-performing, and long-lasting Eee PC.