Asus 1000HE with 9.5 hours battery life available for pre-order

Juice and a workable keyboard are the only things that really matter to me in a netbook, and that's why the Asus Eee 1000HE looks swank. It's basically the 1000HA except with a chiclet keyboard, 802.11 draft n support, Bluetooth and a toted 9.5 hour battery life. And grok that right shift key! It's on the correct side of the arrow keys! Dig!

All for $400 with a $25 discount if you join the Eee PC Facebook group. You can pre-order it now, if you're so inclined, which you may as well do, since there'll be another netbook to capture your fancy in a week's time, and another after that, ad infinitim. You've got to take the plunge sometime.

Gearlog notes the 1000HE is the first to use Intel's newer Atom 280 chip, with a slightly faster front side bus and better integrated graphics.

Asus 1000HE available for pre-order [Asus]

[#1 posted by Daemon , February 3, 2009 3:04 AM]

9.5 hours battery life... that's got to be, what, 8 hours of usage by real people? Sweet.

[#2 posted by musicalwoods , February 3, 2009 8:57 AM]

This really tempts me. I just got done installing eeebuntu NBR on a friend's 1000H, and I had a tingly feeling from the experience. Fast boot times, good interface, and everything just worked. 9.5 hours of battery life makes this all the more tempting...

[#3 posted by clarexu , February 3, 2009 12:41 PM]

That is awesome. As an owner of a 1000HA (6-cell), the 1000HE makes me intensely jealous.