Just picked up a new eee for a client - this thing is one of their slimmer eees with a 10 inch LED powered LCD - so far I am indifferent to it, cant say I like it or hate it.
While its supposedly 1 inch larger than my eee 901 (which has been through WW3), they seemed to have added most of the extra inch in the wrong direction - its significantly wider, but only a tad taller - the scroll keys get used a lot!!! The LED backlit is great, nice and bright - and the main reason why the battery goes for 6 hours.
They probably did this hat trick to fit a much wider keyboard on there (most people complain about the tiny keys on my 901), I like the new keyboard, it has great feedback, with solid keys. The touchpad is one of those slick multi-touch deals for scrolling and zooming (the mac pinch thing), and its flush mount on the PC. Finally they put a fricken CAP lock light on it, and the dedicated wifi button is nice.
They did some other {unnecessary} tricks on this thing also - all the io ports are hidden behind
"nifty" little doors - most likely my client will inadvertantly rip this off as the doors are quite clumsy to use - especially the network port. The video port is another hat trick - you pull this little magnetic dongle out the bottom, and plug into a mini high density video port on the side for external monitors - again kind of clumsy, waiting to see how long before the dongle gets lost.
"nifty" little doors - most likely my client will inadvertantly rip this off as the doors are quite clumsy to use - especially the network port. The video port is another hat trick - you pull this little magnetic dongle out the bottom, and plug into a mini high density video port on the side for external monitors - again kind of clumsy, waiting to see how long before the dongle gets lost.
For power usage this thing is great, it does not have as large a battery as my 901, but to compensate they have used LED for its lower power usage, and one other nasty trick - the CPU is a single core Atom N280 (my 901 is a dual core), while it has a super performance option which clocks to a whopping 1.7 ghz, its still no competition for a dual core CPU. I am typing this article on it, and have installed several apps on it, so far it has performed well, but I know my clients - they could slow down a Ferrari! In short time, it will most likely begin to hesitate.
A combo of the FN key + Space bar bumps the CPU around to aide in battery life, here is what I found:
- 855 mhz power saver mode
- 950-1660 mhz Auto High performance mode (recommended mode)
- High performance mode didnt seem to change any compared to the "auto" modE
- 1705 mhz Super Performance mode
Its got pretty much all the other standard junk, bluetooth, webcam, 160 gig drive, SD slot, but the screen and CPU really leave me desiring more - if I were to get one personally, it would be a no most likely, but it might serve someone else as a great ultra portable.
THANK GOOGLE FOR THE TERRIBLE FORMATTING OF THIS ARTICLE!
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