You do realize that all those Atom-based netbooks on sale for the holidays will be abandoned entirely in January right? Go ahead and pull the trigger for that "new"
ViewSonic netbook if you must, just realized that you'll be running last-gen hardware in less than a month if rumor, innuendo, and leaks all converge with the release of
Pineview netbooks as expected. More details have appeared today at retailers listing specifications and pics for the unannounced ASUS EeePC model 1005P and 1005PE. Sporting the Eee PC
Seashell design, we're looking at a pair of 10-inch LED backlit displays with a 1,024 x 600 pixel resolution, Intel Atom
N450 proc, 1GB DDR2-RAM, and a Windows 7 Starter Edition preload riding GMA 3150 graphics -- a slightly faster version of Intel's G31 based GMA 3100. The PE model sports a bigger 250GB hard disk and higher capacity 6-cell battery for a reported 12.5 hours of go-go juice thanks, in part, to the more efficient N450 CPU. Expect to see these Eees get official with price and launch date any day now.
posted December 18th 2009 5:11AM
Hot looking chicks:)
Looking good. Glad they ditched the Eee logo
@toast yay, youre right!
Still the best looking netbook out there.
They look great but I've got a feeling that the price may keep people buying the "abandoned" netbooks. I got a Dell Mini 10v for $240 during Black Friday and it works great for what netbooks are supposed to do.
So these are the Pinetrail notebooks eh. The CGPU future sneaks up sneaks up on us, bringing at first not amazing parallel processing power but power savings.
this aint bad, although im not a big fan of win7starter. my gf has a 1005hah wich lasts up to 10+ hours. this one has faster gfx (3150>950) and even better runtime -> great! hopefully the price isnt that much over the 300-mark
Is the carbon fibre I see?
@ToniCipriani
If only they would do the entire notebook like that. The cover is nice, but the palmrests and touchpad look to still be glossy plastic
So basically this only gets us better battery life? When are we going to see more dual core atom/ION based net/notebooks... I just need a little more HP in those machines
Only asus can downgrade screen resolution on a new and improved model!
Looks tasty!
ASUS should make a 1008 version as it's only 1 inch thick. The 1005 is not as thin.
@jules But has far better battery life, easier access to components (SSD!), and 3 USB ports. Try to use an external DVD drive with the USB ports on either side of the computer. No good. I'm far happier with my 1005HA than I would have been with the smaller model.
kiss my ASUS
So it looks the N450 is good for about 30% increase in battery life over N270.
Performance won't be dramatically different. Worth waiting for? I dunno. The old models at 30% off are pretty tempting...
@(Unverified) Really depends on how much better the integrated GPU is, methinks.
Wow. I kind of want one. These things are even lighter than they appear, since you don't have to carry a power adapter around with them during the day.
No HDMI/Displayport, no better resolution.... NO GO!
and IMHO, Win 7 Starter is a bit pointless. I am expecting either Win XP or at least 7 Home...
If they push this out around the $3-400 mark I'll probably get one to replace my EEE 4G surf. Win 7 off, Linux on.
NO ION?? not interested!! :P
Just an FYI to those considering slapping in a SSD -- Many EEE pc's are capped at SATA I speeds. Confirmed this after installing a spare Intel X25-M into my 1005HA and doing so googling as to why my read speeds were so slow.
Still great netbooks but save the SSDs for your other systems.
@BravoHotel
>Spare X25-M
You have spares? Mind letting me have any?
@BravoHotel Speed is not the only advantage of an SSD. Less weight, smaller size, lower power consumption, less heat, no moving parts. Those are all things you want in a netbook. Raw transfer-speed is also not the only thing that makes a harddrive fast, a lower random seek time can improve the feeling of a speedy drive.
Up the resolution to 1280x800 or something (anything higher than 1024x600, it's just slightly too small), and I'll buy one.
@ChaosEntity
Those "big" resolutions will work well with 11 to 15 inches, but with 10... just check a local shop and check it out yourself, it's makes everything a little too small.
Honestly both 1280x800 or 1366x768 resolutions are perfect even for 15' screens, I have a lappy with 15.6' @ 1440x900 and it starts to make things a little too small to comfortably read for long periods, plus it makes the GPU need more juice to fuel all those pixels.
What they CAN DO is up the screen to 11.6 @ 1280x800 (yes, this resolution is more comfortable than 1366x768) and use that bezel better, especially the sides.