Published: Monday 2nd June, 2008 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: ASUS Eee PC 1000
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email to a friendWe knew ASUS would unveil a 10in variant of its popular Eee PC here at COMPUTEX '08, but we assumed it would just slap the same innards into a bigger shell.
Our sincere apologies to ASUS, we were wrong. At the ASUS stand today, we found out that the 10in Eee PC, dubbed the Eee 1000, will in fact offer more than a bigger screen - it'll also pack double the RAM, and quadruple the storage.
As the above spec-sheet shows, The Eee PC 1000 will be available with a 10 or 10.2in screen, and will feature an Intel Atom processor. It'll provide up to 2GiB of DDR RAM, double the amount available in the Eee PC 900/901, and provide 80GiBs of storage capacity for XP-based machines. We don't know how much storage the Linux alternative will offer, but with COMPUTEX having not yet officially started, ASUS weren't keen on providing further details.
We were previously worried about the potential cost of the larger Eee, and seeing as all previous Eee PCs have utilised SSDs, we're assuming that the Eee PC 1000 will feature an 80GiB SSD, as opposed to a conventional hard disk. If, indeed, that is the case, this thing could be more expensive than we'd originally dreaded.
The Eee PC 1000 wasn't yet out in the open, but we'll be sure to get a price, and further details, when COMPUTEX kicks off tomorrow.
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Oh come one - you are assuming that it's 80GB of SSD ?????
No way in hell.
What is perfectly obvious to me is that ASUS have looked at the MSI Wind, got scared that some of its target audience will simply see the numbers rather than the technology, and have decided to copy the same 80Gig hard drive.
Simple.
Bet a tenner on it.
1.45Kg is the give away, thats a fair bit heavier than the previous models and I'm guessing its down to a full fat hard drive.Quote
Eee PC 901 and 1000-series to start at $550 - Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/03/eee-pc-901-and-1000-series-specs-and-pricing/)
Although they concur that the 80GB will indeed be traditional hard disk (so i was right :)), it seems that they will offer a 40GB SSD!
Now that does shock me, i thought 20GB (4 + 16) would be quite expensive....
Seems like the days of affordable SSD's are a-comin'.Quote
to get cut-rate XP, the maximum specs for any subnote are a 10.2" screen, 80GB disk, 1GHz CPU (exceptions for C7 up to 1.6GHz, or Atom up to 1.66GHz), and 1 GiB RAM (note they say "up to" 2 GiB, the windows version MUST ship with less for them to keep costs down)Quote
1.45Kg is the give away, thats a fair bit heavier than the previous models
1.45Kg! Ruddy 'ell my old 12" laptop was only 1Kg. Ah well wont be getting one of those then.Quote
It had a mobile P3 (scaled from 800Mhz to 1.2Ghz dependant on conditions), came with 256MB RAM that i cheaply upgraded to 768MB, and a 30GB hard drive.
11 or 12" screen (cant remember), with 1024 x 768 resolution.
Weight: 1.5Kg, battery lasts for around 1 1/2 hours (it's second hand, but i live with it). It has no optical drive, but £15 bought me an extension bay / port replicator with an optical drive & floppy too!
And ebay still sells them by the ton.
They run XP like a dream, and I dual boot with Ubuntu also (but the 16MB Radeon chip doesnt like the extra effects so much).
The only real issue is no wireless, but since i use draft N, i have plugged in the PCMCIA card that came with the router.
I'd recommend these little compaq's to anyone for the money.Quote
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