Feb 04

First impressions with the Eee PC 1000HE and its delectable keyboard

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First impressions with the Eee PC 1000HE and its delectable keyboard

We were pleased to see Asus responding to its critics by unveiling the new 1000HE at CES, offering a far more pleasant keyboard that finally moved the right shift key just a bit to the left. With the new model about to ship, Laptop Magazine has been able to stack one up against an older 1000 model and play a little game of “One of These Things” to spot the differences between the two. There weren’t many, just that chiclet-style keyboard, which was rated as “just better,” and the new 1.66GHz Atom N280 CPU, replacing the elder’s 1.6GHz N270. Unfortunately the slight bump in clock and bus speed (from 133MHz to 167MHz) didn’t make any noticeable change in performance, but if this thing can deliver on its promise of 9+ hours on a charge we don’t think anybody will mind.

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First impressions with the Eee PC 1000HE and its delectable keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Feb 02

Modder crafts homemade 12-cell battery for Eee, doubles stock battery life, grows unsightly hump

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Modder crafts homemade 12-cell battery for Eee, doubles stock battery life, grows unsightly hump

Remember the Eee 901 “hammerhead edition,” the extra-wide monstrosity that offered 10 cells of goodness in one less than aesthetic package? Welcome to that accessory’s homebrew cousin, the creation of a modder by the name of TenaciousDre who stole eight batteries from an old laptop and wired them up to the existing four-cell battery, creating a 12-cell shrink-wrapped bulge to protrude less than majestically from the back of his Eee. The good news is 12 to 15 hours of life with the laptop set on its most frugal settings; the bad news is a 12 hour re-charge time and a useless battery gauge that reads zero percent despite eight hours of juice remaining. We have seen uglier examples of excess in the computing world before, but would probably rather carry around a second (and third) battery than have to explain this tumor to every passer-by at Starbucks.

[Via Portable Monkey]

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Modder crafts homemade 12-cell battery for Eee, doubles stock battery life, grows unsightly hump originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Feb 02

Eee PC 1000HE with 9.5 hour battery seeks friends, pre-orders

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Rather than making the customary press release blast across media outlets, ASUS just loosed its newest Eee PC — the 1000HE (“E,” as in extended) — into pre-order limbo via its official ASUS Eee PC Facebook group. The latest 10-inch LED backlit Eee PC with new chicklet keyboard ships with 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0, and a 160GB hard disk with an additional 10GB of Eee Online storage. The inclusion of Intel’s 1.66GHz Atom N280 processor and ASUS’ own Super Hybrid Engine battery conservation tech makes this the most powerful and longest lasting Eee PC ever. Members of the Eee PC Facebook group receive a $25 discount off the $399 pre-order price. Sweet… but you might find yourselves wishing you’d waited for a touchscreen model whenever Windows 7 rolls around.

[Via SlashGear]

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Eee PC 1000HE with 9.5 hour battery seeks friends, pre-orders originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 29

Super Talent unloads 32GB / 64GB SSDs for ASUS Eee PC S101

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If your prior budget forced you to select an ASUS Eee PC S101 with just 16GB of succulent SSD storage space, Super Talent has the cure. The outfit has just introduced three new solid state drives made specifically for the aforementioned netbook, all of which tout 90 MB/sec maximum sequential read speeds and up to 55 MB/sec write speeds. You can select from the FPM16RSE (16GB), FPM32RSE (32GB) or the FPM64RSE (64GB), though you’ll have to guess on the prices of the first two. As for the big daddy? It’ll run right around $169.

[Via HotHardware]

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Jan 20

Video: Sexy Eee PC Touch UI demonstrated

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Having trouble figuring out how a touchscreen Eee PC could fit into your life? No worries, ASUS just did all the heavy synaptic lifting for you with the release of a near 6-minute video showing its new Eee PC Touch UI. A UI teased at CES and built specifically for ASUS’ new touchcreen Eees. All in all it makes a pretty case for why you should pick up a new Eee PC T91 or T101H convertible tablet later this year. Let’s just hope the processor can cope.

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Video: Sexy Eee PC Touch UI demonstrated originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 14

Details on Intel Atom N280 begin to surface, are short on excitement

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Sure, the Atom N270 has done great things for humanity during its brief tenure powering pretty much every netbook that comes down the pipes, but it’s time for a change, and it looks like the N280 from Intel — already slated for a couple Eee PCs — could provide just the sort of marginal boost we’re looking for. The single core chip bests the N270’s 1.6GHz clock with blazing 1.66GHz speeds, and a 667MHz bus over the original’s 533MHz. What could perhaps be much more interesting is the promised Intel GN40 chipset that accompanies the N280, which there’s currently very little info on, but hopefully does a little bit towards competing with NVIDIA’s ION — or at least pepping up that game of solitaire we’ve been working on.

[Thanks, Jagslive]

Read – N280 shows up on some new Eee PC models
Read – N280 netbooks to hit the market between 2Q09 and 3Q09

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Details on Intel Atom N280 begin to surface, are short on excitement originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 12

Asus’s Eee PC 1000HE pulls the shift key in from right field

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Asus's Eee PC 1000HE pulls the shift key in from right-field

Eee’s 1000H is generally held to be one of the more complete netbook packages out there, but the placement of the right shift key to the starboard side of the up arrow drives many a touch-typist bonkers. Welcome, then, to the 1000HE, or “extended.” It features a chiclet-style keyboard that slightly increases the size of each key, but more importantly has a slightly revised layout, moving that shift key to the left. New too is a six-cell pack full of 2.9 amp batteries (versus 2.7 amps in the 1000H), said to add another hour to the Eee’s life, up to a total of 8.7 according to Asus. Finally, the company announced an “HAE” model that sports lacks 802.11n, Bluetooth, and presumably a higher lower price tag. No word on what that price will be on either model, though, or when you might be able to get your fingertips on them.

Update: Whoops, fopkins commented to point out that the HAE actually is the one without Bluetooth and 802.11n, making it the cheaper of the pair.

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Asus’s Eee PC 1000HE pulls the shift key in from right field originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 09

VAIO P vs Eee PC… fight!

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We’ve got a VAIO P in the house, and we thought it’d only be fitting to put the quintessential “it’s not a netbook, we swear!” up against the quintessential netbook, ASUS’s Eee PC (in convenient 7-inch and 10-inch flavors). Stand by for further impressions, but boy is that screen densely packed with pixels. There’s another shot after the break of the P being swallowed by a 17-inch MacBook Pro… juxtaposition!

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VAIO P vs Eee PC… fight! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 08

ASUS Eee PC T91 and T101H touchscreen tablet hands-on

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We got a quick look at ASUS’s new Eee PC tablets today, the T91 and T101H. The netbook heritage is unmistakable — you only have to peep the 8.9-inch and 10-inch respective screen sizes and Atom processors — but the two machines offer up full-on swivel tablet functionality, and look pretty good doing it. The chiclet keyboard on the T101H is a slight improvement over the standard Eee PC keyboard on the T91 — which is a tad less firm, and with less room for distinct spacing. We found the hinge to be just alright, only rotating in a clockwise direction, and showing bit of “give.” Otherwise it’s pretty standard Eee, with ASUS’s standard march toward sexy and the deepest stack of SKUs in the industry.

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ASUS Eee PC T91 and T101H touchscreen tablet hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 07

ASUS EeePC T101H tablet netbook peeked at CES

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ASUS had us so dazzled yesterday with the announcement of Eee PC T91 and and the S121 that we nearly didn’t notice this guy — the T91’s bigger sidekick — hiding in the “unannounced but still very much here” pile. There’s precious little in the way of info, specs or anything else, but we know it’s got a 10-inch display, and it’s a very, very dapper tablet.

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