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

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]

Read -- Facebook Group
Read -- Where to Pre-order

[Skorpius Posted Feb 2nd 2009 3:57PM]

Its a shame they went to that style of keyboard. They should at least offer a choice between the concave and the island style.

[Luffy Posted Feb 2nd 2009 7:40PM]

Why can't ASUS make a proper right shift button? It's irritating...

Samsung NC10, here I come.

[FILA Posted Feb 2nd 2009 9:18PM]

this is nice, but no SSD like other models, Im rocking my 2G surf, the first gen, but the touchscreen looks really cool, think Id just wait it out, doenst matter anyways, no money, thinks bush

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 3rd 2009 2:23AM]

Island style? On a netbook? That must be some kind of sick joke. Pass.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 3rd 2009 6:58PM]

Asus Netbook (ASUS) wrote
at 5:45pm
YEP GN40

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6297967631#/wall.php?id=49064527449

[Eminemdrdre00 Posted Feb 9th 2009 2:46AM]

GN40 is the new graphics chipset right?

[Weet Posted Feb 3rd 2009 8:45PM]

9.5 hours? Bah! All I want is a Tegra based netbook with a ten inch screen and 3 days of batter life. Is that too much to ask?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 15th 2009 4:55AM]

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