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When you’re number two, you’ve always got a humble eye and a gun pointed at number one. Just look at Apple and those “Get a Mac” ads. Now in true Pepsi-challenge fashion, ASUS is trying to convince consumers that its Eee PC 1000He is vastly superior to Acer — the number one seller of netbooks — and its Aspire One D150. On the surface, the two laptops appear to be identical in that they share the same N280 processor, 10-inch display, and 1GB of DDR2 memory. Of course, same specs result in an equivalent application performance as seen in the reviews. But if you look closer (as ASUS hopes), you’ll see that the 1000He features a larger keyboard and touchpad, faster 802.11n WiFi, and more robust 8,700mAH battery and power management compared to the 5,800mAH jobbie found on the Aspire One. ASUS takes the comparisons much deeper though, right on down to the size of the power bricks to prove its point. Ok ASUS, you win… too bad better products don’t always translate to market dominance.

P.S. Picture of the competing transformers after the break because we know you’re wondering.

Continue reading ASUS: Our Eee PC 1000He is better than Acer’s Aspire One D150, fashion elegant too

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ASUS: Our Eee PC 1000He is better than Acer’s Aspire One D150, fashion elegant too originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ASUS has taken the wraps off its latest Eee PC, the 1008HA we heard was on the way to follow up on the S101. As far as anyone can tell — ASUS is a little coy on specs so far — the laptop harbors fairly traditional netbook specs and a netbook pricepoint, but the exterior is all new and rather attractive. The computer is 1-inch thick and weighs 2.4 pounds, with a curved, shiny plastic “shell” (ASUS calls it “pearlescent”) to give a bit more luster than the average Eee PC. ASUS is including 802.11n, Bluetooth, 3G and WiMAX options, and packing in it Eee Sharing and Eee Arena software. We’ll be looking to dig up more specs and some hands-on time with this unit this week at CeBIT.

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ASUS debuts the Eee PC 1008HA “Shell” 10-inch ultraportable originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ASUS broke out a stable of Eee PCs here in Germany, and we were on hand to have a look at all of the freshest ones. The pivoting, swiveling T91 (or T91GO, as it were) courted us most heavily, though we will admit, even our pansy man hands felt like they were going to twist the swivel screen right off. The touchscreen functionality seemed decent enough, but the spongy display left a bit to be desired. The 1000HE was also on display with its purported 9.5 hours of battery life, as was the WWAN-packin’ 1003HGO. See for yourself if our word ain’t good enough.

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Hands-on with ASUS’ galleria of Eee PCs at CeBIT originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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An Eee PC costing $550 just 8 months ago is now selling for less than half that price from a trio of major on-line retailers. In an apparent across-the-board price cut, several SSD-based EEE PC 901 models have been slashed with your choice of Linux or XP. Most notable is the 8.9-inch netbook configured with a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 1GB memory, 20GB SSD, Linux, and 6-cell battery. Careful though: the European CeBIT show (an ASUS favorite event) is just days away and with it should come a few new Eee PC models running the latest Intel processors and chipsets. Consider yourselves warned. Hit the read link for the details.

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ASUS’ Eee PC 901 with 20GB SSD and 6-cell battery now just $268 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’d already heard that ASUS was at least considering using Android on its Eee PC netbook, and seen it wrangled onto one unofficially (see above), but ASUS’s Samson Hu has now offered a few more details that indicate just how serious the company is about the XP/Linux alternative. Apparently, ASUS has already allocated a team of engineers to work on the Android-based netbook, which Hu says could be ready by the end of the year, although the company isn’t committing to actually releasing a product until it sees how things pan out. No further word on ASUS’s other Android experiments, unfortunately, but it seems safe to bet that ASUS is devoting even more attention to those, at least if its latest timeline is any indication.

[Via GadgetMix.com]

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ASUS experimenting with Android-based netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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