Hands-on video of the Asus Eee PC 1000

by Julian Prokaza
on Thu 10 Jul 2008 7 Comments

Asus kindly dropped of yet another Eee PC earlier today – the Eee PC 1000-BK002. As we’ve already reported, this is a 10in screen netbook with an Intel Atom processor, but it’s essentially a scaled-up version of the Eee PC 901 and you’ll see the close resemblance with the two side-by-side.

The Eee PC 1000 competes head-on with the MSI Wind U100, but there’s really little to choose between the two. The 1000 is a little bigger than the Wind, but it does have a couple of points in its favour.

First, it’s cheaper than the Wind – £349 for the 80Gb HDD Windows XP model (and £369 for the Linux one, with a 40Gb SSD), compared to £364 for the Wind (though the Advent 4211, a rebadged Wind, costs £280). Second, it has a 6600mAh battery – the Wind makes do with a disappointingly small 2200mAh cell.

The keyboards on both the Eee PC 1000 and MSI Wind are exactly the same size, though our prototype model had a few issues that will hopefully be addressed by the time the netbook actually ships.

At this stage, it’s difficult to make a call about which is best, but that king-size battery makes the Eee PC 1000 very tempting. We’ll run a full set of battery and performance benchmarks as soon as we can, and publish them with our full review in a day or two. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the hands-on video.

 

 

[Related: See all Mobile Computer netbook reviews to date]

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    by Anders, Sweden at 18:10 on 10 Jul 2008Report abuse

    One number in the text seems to be wrong. It says £269 for the 40Gb SSD Eee PC 1000 with Linux, while the video says £369.It seems to me the Eee beats the MSI Wind by far with that battery since the price is practically the same.

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    by Julian Prokaza at 19:31 on 10 Jul 2008 | registered | 55 postsReport abuse

    My bad - that's a typo and the price is £369. Corrected now - thanks for the spot!

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    by KoKo at 20:12 on 11 Jul 2008Report abuse

    That's odd. The Eee 1000 will be about $100 more expensive than the Wind, in the US. Also, the Wind shipping right now only has the 3-cell battery. The six-cell battery model, available in a month or so, should have about double the run time, and cost about $20 more (in the US.) Over here, the Wind seems like the one to get.

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    by tomer at 11:18 on 12 Jul 2008Report abuse

    "...[b]First, it?s cheaper than the Wind [/b]? £349 for the 80Gb HDD Windows XP model, compared to £364 for the Wind. Second, it has a 6600mAh battery ? the Wind makes do with a disappointingly small 2200mAh cell." [b]I allready bought the wind but it is not cheaper in the review.[/b]who do you work for? :wink:

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    by Brian at 21:58 on 13 Jul 2008Report abuse

    The Asus Eee PC 1000 has better battery life than the wind.

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    by Jenny Woodall at 16:58 on 16 Jul 2008 | registered | 1 postReport abuse

    The Asus Eee PC 1000 shipped to me here in the UK has a full sized return key.

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    by Mike at 08:33 on 28 Jul 2008Report abuse

    Jenny, ASUS EEE PC 1000 can you check and comment on the visual quality of typed text in either Wordpad or the app in Works. Look at a line of your typed text (any font, 14 point). Is the appearance uniform or is there a patchiness which is unsightly?

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