ASUS EEE PC 1000 REVIEW – A MARQUEE OF A GENRE

The hang around is lastly over for the EEE PC 1000, a notebook that promises to assassinate all that enters into the net book showground. It's the most well-resourced and leading in the EEE series and has shed aside the usability shackles of its minuscule predecessors.

Design
The EEE PC 1000 has much in familiar with the EEE PC 901. It's got the identical shiny, metallic hinges and a curvy-edged lid. At present, it's only accessible in one color -- lustrous black -- but we'd be astonished if Asus doesn't discharge a white version and other consequent hues in the in the vicinity of future. The EEE PC 1000 is the chief mini notebook we've come across. Its 225 by 170 by 20mm framework is a few millimeters wider and deeper than an MSI Wind, but we don't comprise too much of a concern with this; it's still extremely portable.

Performance
There are few surprises within the machine -- chiefly if you've been following our reporting of the EEE PC 1000 for the preceding few months. It utilizes a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, plus 1GB of DDR reminiscence much like the EEE PC 900, Acer Aspire One and MSI Wind.

Asus is launching 2 variants of the 1000, as it did with the 901, 900 and 701. The £369 EEE PC 1000-BK002 ships along with Linux and 40GB of solid-state storage and the £349 EEE PC 1000H-BK007X utilizes an 80GB HDD drive and Windows XP. Remarkably, this is the 1st time in EEE history that the Windows XP variant has had more storage space than the Linux replica and the 1st time there has been a price divergence between the 2 versions.

There's extremely diminutive difference between the EEE PC 1000 and the respite of its Atom-planted rivals in terms of presentation. The 1000 clocked up 1,512 in PCMark 2005, which is an exceptionally reputable score for an engine of this type.

Battery life was appealingly impressive in the EEE PC 1000. We weren't predicting it to be as extended as the EEE PC 901's, due to its bigger display, but it fared astoundingly well. It lasted 3 hours 56 minutes while inspecting a DivX movie, which is good quality in comparison to the 901's 4.5 hours.

Conclusion
The EEE PC 1000 is a tremendous machine. It unsteadily straddles the line flanked by mini notebook and ultra portable, but it's fighting fit and planted best to face it, well calculated and enormous for those who require a functional notebook on the move. It's more posh than the correspondingly outfitted MSI Wind, but it does possess its advantages like the multi-touch mouse track pad and a selection of specification. As an effect, we advocate it highly.

Pros
+ It’s an EEE variant
+ Battery life too good
+ Display quality is class apart

Cons
- A bit on the heavier region

Value For Money

Our Rating