Spotted at online stores in the last few days, Asus’ 1000HE netbook is both cheap and long-life, with a 6-cell battery included with the base package. This is good for a full day of work with the lamp down low, and is a $50 cheaper the similar Samsung NC10.
The 1000HE has the ever-so-slightly faster N280 (1.66GHz) Atom chip, a 10″ display (yes, only 600 lines, still) a 160GB Hard Drive, WiFi-n and Bluetooth, a chicklet style keyboard and that bollock-braising 8700mAh battery. It comes with Microsoft Windows XP Home, which means it comes with just 1GB of RAM. You can grab a 2GB at Newegg and still have saved money compared to that NC10.
Is the 1000HE shipping from mwave.com [Eee User Forums]
I pre-ordered mine last week and it shipped from Amazon yesterday. I’m planning on putting eeebuntu on it. Hopefully battery life is as good as they say.
Knowing how little time it actually takes to install Ubuntu, I wish you luck- please post here and let us know how it goes. If battery life really turns out that long for you, hell, I may go buy one!
Aawww!
I just bought an eee 1000ha and then they come up with this thing. Sucky how things get upgraded fast without options for the “older” models to follow suit.
Rutiger, mail in your results and we’ll post it. rob at b b net
I pre-ordered mine two weeks ago from Amazon, and they are telling me it will ship March 12-17th. Guess I ordered too late.
Tempting. I took a gamble and preordered the NC10 Special Edition. Now I need to find a 1000HE owner and we could drain the batteries side-by-side.
Now if only Samsung wasn’t being so hush-hush about a release date. Come on, Samsung, don’t hold out on me!
I presume that they’re saving power by using a slower-spinning disk drive? That might compromise these as a field-recording digital audio workstation… USB2 or Firewire have the bandwidth to record a very reasonable number of channels, if the machine can get the data onto the disk fast enough.
I know there are a lot of skeptics on this, but I have a Sony TZ laptop with an extended battery and I get 9+ hours without any power saving at all. Wifi Bluetooth and screen at 100% brightness and I can fly SF to Tokyo no problem.
So if I can get this battery life with a whole extra processor, a bigger and brighter screen, and a spinning, non solid state hard drive it seems perfectly reasonable that a smaller, less capable computer should manage it.
i got a refund on my hp 2133 after 3(!) consecutive motherboard failures.
i want this but with an ion setup. hopefully they will be out by the end of the year…