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We got word that the ASUS Eee PC 1000 and 1000H was to begin selling on Wednesday this week in Taiwan and we instantly set about trying to buy one.The new 10-inch Intel Atom powered sub-notebooks with 802.11n wireless were actually available from local retailers yesterday with a huge demand but we managed to pick one up today for an early look here at TweakTown. We preferred the Eee PC 1000 (40GB SSD) but from what we were told, the Eee PC 1000H (80GB HDD) has came out first.
Asus’s Eee PC 1000H is the least Eee-like Eee yet—big, pricey ($649) and it has a regular ol’ platter hard drive. Laptop Mag says the extra screen real estate makes it the most productive yet, too, even though the colors don’t pop as much as the Wind. And the keyboard: “To say it’s an improvement over the cramped keyboard found on earlier Eee PCs is an understatement.” Performance from Atom and its 1GB RAM is solid, and the move to a HDD from a SSD doesn’t hurt too much, even on startup—battery isn’t hit too hard either, 4 hours and 28 minutes with Wi-Fi.Overall, everything’s gravier than past models, ‘cept the price.
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