Battery life is always the Achilles heel of portable device and it’s more apparent when it comes to notebooks, or in this case, netbooks. Asus targeted at this and came out with the Eee PC 1000HE.
So what’s so special about the 1000HE? For starters, it has a nice 10 inch LED backlit display, 160GB of storage space and comfortable isolated keys keyboard and the best part; it has a battery capacity of 8700 mAH! To put that into perspective, a conventional mobile phone battery has about 1200mAH. Go figure.
Our unit is housed in a beautiful glossy black enclosure with chrome trimmings scattered around the netbook. Asus didn’t over do the design on the 1000HE. The keyboard was really nice to type on and following the traits of the newer Eee PCs, the 1000HE has a large enough multi touch trackpad with support of up to three fingers.
The 1000HE has an Intel Atom N270 processor clocked at 1.60GHz. 1GB of memory and is preinstalled with Windows XP Home. We couldn’t get the PCMark05 scores despite countless runs but the CPU, Memory and HDD scores were of netbook range.
Despite the run of the mill benchmark scores, the battery life of this thing is magnificent! We tested the 1000HE’s battery life by turning up the brightness of the screen and volume to the max with WiFi and Bluetooth on, we got slightly more than 8 hours. Now that’s what we call a proper battery!
The heavy battery also took a toll on the 1000HE’s weight. At 1.45kg, it’s not exactly one of the lightest netbooks around and we’ve reviewed some proper notebooks that weigh in at about the same weight. However, to Asus defence, 1.45kg is still a bearable weight for a portable computer.
The hardware specifications of the Asus Eee PC 1000HE can be found on every other netbooks but we can bet that the battery life is second to none. We love the keyboard as well as the multi touch trackpad to bits. The 1.45kg weight might put some netbook hunters of though.
Pros : Excellent battery life, Nice keyboard and multi touch trackpad
Cons: A little heavy
Asus EEE PC 100HE Specifications :
CPU : Intel Atom N270 @ 1.60GHz
RAM : 1GB DDR2 RAM
OS : Windows XP Home
Display : 10 inch LED-backlight WSVGA 1024 x 600
Hard drives : 160GB
Connectivity : Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3 x USB, Ethernet
Extras : Flash Card Reader, Webcam
Dimensions (W x D X H) : 264 x 191.2 x 28.5-38mm
Weight : 1.45kg
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