Make no mistake, ASUS knows it's onto something with the sleek new
Eee PC seashell form factor. We've seen the
1101HA and its 3G-equipped fraternal twin
1101HGO before, and now
Trusted Reviews has managed one more glimpse before the netbook goes on sale in Europe
later this month. The biggest selling point for this over the other seashell models like
1008HA or
1005HA is gonna be the 11.6-inch screen, but beyond that, it looks like you're getting slightly gimped right shift key, but on the bright side, there's also a removable battery. As the site notes, this particular model happened to have the ASUS logo displayed on the back of the lid, which is in stark contrast to the typical Eee branding we see in its place. Still no word on an US release, but we're holding out hope it'll follow suit pretty quickly after the overseas launch.
posted Jun 26th 2009 5:15AM
Wow, windows XP. It's been a while.
A Z520 is powering this thing? What, are we going backwards now?
They probably don't have much a choice since the bigger screen would be really eating into the battery life (similar to Dell putting the N270 into the mini 9 but Z530 into the Mini 10)
I haven't even taken the 1005HA out of the box yet, whats this now?
When are they going to stop calling these EEEs? 11.6" isn't exactly a netbook, to be honest.
it is not... did you read it? it says ASUS
Hopefully this marks the end of that godawful Eee logo on the lids of future Eee's...
the preview didn't mention the weight of this thing. wonder if it is much heavier than the 1000he.
Looks like a lot of bright, shinny plastic.
She sells seashells down by the seashore.
That's what she said.
New product, old flaws.
The screen is not matte, the right-shift key needs to be fixed like in the Eee 1005HA, the edge around the screen is still too big even if it did got a little better in comparison to the other series, and the Atom Z-something just doesn't help that much with all our 720p needs.
The 3G, slightly bigger screen and higher resolution are really welcome tho! So i'll be one of the first in line to get it when the other problems are fixed.
Ungghhhh right shift key! WHY?
That puts my EEE 1000HE to shame!
Ive always thought that anything bigger than 10.1" wasn't a netbook, but after handling a few, i would still call one with a bigger screen a netbook, as long as the overall dimensions are still 'netbook' size. my brothers 10" acer has a pretty big bezel around the screen, bigger than the one on the 1101HA i think. if the 1101HA still has the same physical size as the acer, then i have no probs calling it a netbook.
Cole's Note: I think overall size should classify a netbook, not screen size
Yeah, the edge around some screens is really crazy, like on the 1000H\HE, you could almost fit the 11.2' screen there.
Honestly it would make way more sense if the differentiation should between "Gaming laptops" and "Work laptops".
For the common user having a Core2 Duo 2.0GHz or an Atom 1.66Ghz is the exact same thing, since all they do is browse the web, write documents with MS Office, surf the web and watch videos on Youtube and DivX.
Honestly my 1000H (with 2GB ram using XP SP3 and the useless page-file off since nowadays computers dont have 64~128MB of ram anymore) is able to keep my MSN doing video-chat, an HTTP server with Apache, mySQL and PHP running, have all my editing tools open like Firefox with 6+ tabs open, some of them with videos, Notepad++ and sometimes still watch some 480p series over all that using VLC without any hiccups or crashes at all!
This is nothing else but a market plan to discourage people to buy Atom based computers since the profit margins are not as high.
I think I will stick with my Sony Vaio TT I got off ebay for under for a little over twice the price of what this may cost(400-450 I think?)