ASUS Eee PC 1000HE

Asus continues to ascertain the netbook accepted with the fresh Eee PC 1000HE. Although the aberration compared to antecedent 10-inch models is absolutely miniscule it continues in the Eee PC attitude of accouterment acceptable amount for your money.

One of the improvements in the 1000HE is a hardly faster Atom N280 CPU at 1.66GHz (compared to the N270 at 1.6GHz) with a college FSB acceleration � 667MHz instead of 533MHz). The aberration actuality is apparent but aloof barely.

Design

Asus insists on application bright surfaces on best of the Eee alternation netbooks, which looks nice but additionally attracts a lot of fingerprints. From the advanced you can see the agee aluminum black trackpad buttons alike back the lid is closed, and it additionally has four LEDs to announce power, adamantine drive activity, wireless and battery.

The Eee 1000HE makes acceptable use of the bound amplitude accessible and has a abreast full-size keyboard (92% of accepted anthology size) and an accessible to use, ample trackpad with forward-angled buttons. The askance buttons feel a little aberrant at first, but already you get acclimated to them you admiration why it�s not added common.

Overall, Asus has done a abundant job with the architecture of the 1000HE, alike if actual little has afflicted back antecedent models. But why change a acceptable thing?

Features and Performance

In-depth achievement comparisons and benchmarking don�t accomplish as abundant faculty with netbooks as with full-size laptops, back best of them use about identical components. Naturally a 0.06GHz admission in CPU acceleration does not accomplish for a big achievement difference, but it provides a baby addition acknowledgment to the added advanced ancillary bus speed. On boilerplate its achievement is hardly aloft par in the netbook segment.

ASUS claims that it can accommodate a array activity of up to 9.5 hours, but that apparently requires that you accumulate it on abandoned with awning accuracy angry bottomward and WLAN angry off for the duration, but you can still clasp about across array times out of the 6-cell � 7 hours and 10 account in our accepted acceptance test, a abundant aftereffect nonetheless.

Connectivity

All of the ports are placed on the abandon of the anthology � the larboard ancillary has an Ethernet port, one USB and audio line-in and line-out. On the appropriate ancillary is a anamnesis agenda reader, addition 2 USB ports and VGA out. The Wi-Fi agenda offers abutment for draft-n, which gives you admission to the fastest wireless technology at the moment.

Conclusion

The ASUS Eee PC 1000HE is a bit beefy compared to some �premium� and added big-ticket netbooks, but all in all you get a lot added for your money with the Eee compared to added brands. Its keyboard and trackpad are actual adequate to use, and the arrangement is actual able-bodied built. The best part, however, is the 7+ hours of array activity you can clasp out of it, which is way more good than average.