Laptopmag has a comprehensive review of the Asus Eee PC 1000H. The problem with the new Eee is not in design, features, or capacity. The flaw is in the dilution of the Eee name.
The original Eee 701 has a distinct feature set that made it unique and successful:
- Low price
- Small size and 2.0 pound weight
- SSD
- Linux OS specifically geared for net use.
- "Normal Laptop" price of US $649
- "Small notebook, but still notebook" size and 3.2 pound weight.
- 80 GB HDD
- Windows XP
What else can you get for $649? Looking over at a major retailer (Best Buy's site) I see the following:
- A $649 HP with: AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology TL-60; 3GB DDR2 memory; DL DVD±RW/CD-RW drive; LightScribe labeling; 15.4" widescreen; 250GB hard drive; Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1
- A $649 Dell with: Intel Pentium Dual-Core mobile processor T2370; 2GB DDR2 memory; DL DVD±RW/CD-RW drive; 15.4" widescreen; 160GB hard drive; Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1
- A $599 Compaq with: Intel Pentium Dual-Core mobile processor T2370; 3GB DDR2 memory; DL DVD±RW/CD-RW drive; LightScribe technology; 17" widescreen; 160GB hard drive; built-in Web cam; Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1
I beg you, Asus: Keep the revolutionary roots of the Eee 701. Don't make the Eee line into just another batch of underpowered subnotebooks destined to fade away into obscurity.
7 comments:
yep.
You could say its an ultra mobile laptop for the price of a normal laptop. Those sony laptops are expensive.
What do you you all think Asus's motivations might have been for doing this? I am wondering if it was done at least partially to appease Microsoft, to reduce the threat that a popular linux powered netbook might pose to their operating system marketshare.
I doubt that Asus has any interest in appeasing Microsoft.
For me, Asus Eee PC 20G 900 holds the most attraction. GNU/Linux fits the requirements perfectly if you want to use the laptop as an Internet device, and 20GB is enough for this purpose.
I agree, Asus is getting away from its' roots, the original eeepc was and is something special, the 1000H is just another notebook. I work at a synchrotron (particle accelerator. nvm, it could be any large industrial real-time plant) and we've been issuing the 701 eeepc's to our technicians to climb over the hardware with the eee still running in their pockets, interface with the linux based control systems via wireless and then climb back out again. the main strengths of the eee in these circumstances has been it's portablility, (ssd, small size), its' configurable linux operating system, its' wireless functionaly and its' price. They're so cheap that we can almost afford to equip each of our techs with their own eee out of our stationary budget :)
I just ordered on of these just to have a small/light weight laptop, that is easily modifiable, with enough storage space and has a very long battery life for university. i already have a normal laptop but carrying it around and having to always find power supply's for it is a real pain, therefore i am glad to see a product like this. it may not be what the original ones were designed for but i am glad for it.
I agree with John. The 1000h may not be a netbook anymore, but it is the most portable (aside from the 1000) notebook out there with a realistic keyboard size (94% is damn close). Good enough for my chubby, well developed gamer fingers.
I got one for university as well, after heavily considering the 900 20g. The deciding factors were the improved battery life and the decently sized keyboard, also I didn't want a powerful machine to distract me with promises of AoC or TF2 in class.
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