There have been rumors, but now we have the facts, there is another machine in the ASUS EEE lineup. Their first machine was the 700′s with its 7 inch screen and small hard drives (2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB). The 700 Surf models had no webcam, but those that weren’t Surf models came with a webcam. You then had the 900 and the 901 with 12Gb Windows XP model and a 20 GB Linux model. The 900 machines are more expensive than the 700 machines but their improved webcam and larger screen more than made up for the price difference.
Now we start to see the 1000 range. There are two sizes of screen on offer a 10.0 and a 10.2 inch screen. There is also the choice of either Windows XP or Linux operating system. Its processor is an Intel® AtomTM. You can have up to 2 GB of Ram and either an 80 GB conventional hard drive or a 40 GB solid state hard drive. There is also the familiar 1.3M pixel camera. Communications are either from a wireless LAN, a hard-wired LAN, or Bluetooth. The prices are expected to be higher than the 901, but will vary from country to country, and when you find them being released locally, you’ll need to check them out and compared with other sub-notebooks. The weight has been kept to 1.45 Kg and this should not be too heavy for a student, housewife or businessman.
Patience would seem to be the order of the day with this machine scheduled to be released in Europe later this year, but no word on when it will be available in North or South America. I would suspect that it could be released in Hong Kong very quickly, as the initial offering of the ASUS EEE 900 sold out here in an hour.
Have ASUS got this one right?
What is the real size difference between this 10 inch screen and the 12 inch screens we have been seeing with portable PC’s? Each iteration of these sub-notebooks seems to bring them into competition with the best of the small size notebooks. You’ll find that their processor and hard drive specs would seem to be very slow and low. Many other computer notebook manufacturers seem ready to enter the fray with the offer of a 10 inch display. We can only speculate as to how long this segment of the market will hold up with the HP offering 120 GB HDD and Linux operating system available with a 9 inch screen and a 260 GB HDD and Windows Vista and a 12 inch screen. There seems very little room to maneuver.
The one thing to say about these 10 inch portables is that they are the maximum size of portable screen permitted to use the Intel® AtomTM Processor. These processors will seem slow compared to the dual and quadruple processors now available but their low power consumption and low heat emission make them ideal for a sub-notebook.
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Author: Beverley Clement
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