Asus EeePC 1000HE on the way with 9.5 hour battery claims!

Asus’ latest addition to the well known EeePC series is the very good looking 1000HE. Asus claims that it has a 9.5 hour is battery life which is perfect for that long plane flight or tiring car trip.

EeePC 1000HE

Above: EeePC 1000HE

It doesn’t have a CD/DVD drive so film-watchers will be dissapointed, but it does have a 160GB hard drive (plus 10GB online storage provided by Asus) with Windows XP preloaded so you could load a few movies onto the hard drive. I’m not sure that the inbuilt graphics card would cope with very high quality films but it should be able to cope with a fair quality film.

It also comes with a 1.67GHz processor which is quite enough for word processing and document handling in Windows XP, plus the fair sized keyboard will make typing much less of a chore on such a small device.

It also has 1GB RAM preloaded, so you might even be able to do a little bit of multitasking on it.

The screen size is thereabouts 10″ so it’s not great unless you have good eyes, but most people should find it just-about usable – and any user of the previous EeePC’s should have no problem.

I was unable to find any information about the actual screen resolution, but I would guess it was either 1024×600 or 1024×480 judging by previous models of the EeePC.

The product itself has a 1 year warranty, but the battery warranty is only 6 months – so you may have to replace the battery ever so often to keep that 9.5 hour claim up.

Generally, it looks like a nice piece of kit for any regular traveller. I won’t use one myself because I love my 13.3″ dual core laptop which is fine for my travels, and I don’t think I could live without a DVD writer (or even player) built in as I watch a lot of DVD’s on my laptop.

It’s price tag is about 300$ in the US, which means it should be around £230 in the UK.

What do you think of it? Take a look at the Asus promotion page at http://promos.asus.com/US/1000HE/ASUS/index.html

2 thoughts on “Asus EeePC 1000HE on the way with 9.5 hour battery claims!

  1. GEEK! Post author

    I see what you mean – for anyone who already has an Eee it would be relatively pointless to upgrade now.

    Although, I have to say – in my case anyway – a 9.5 hour battery would be perfect. Although 6.5 hours is still plenty!!

    Anyway, I’ll have a look at the Aspire and maybe do a quick comparison!

  2. Nick

    Hope there is a Linux version as there is nothing worse these days than buying a machine with no applications installed. With Linux you get them all, I just can’t imagine spending the same amount again just to get a wordprocessor.

    I have to say I have been using my Eeepc 1000 for six months now, and there is nothing in this release notice that offers anything to upgrade for. I get 6.5 hrs battery life already.

    Good to know about it though. I think the 10″ Acer Aspire one with built in 3G support looks more interesting.

    Nick

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