Comments on: ASUS Eee PC 1101HA Illustrates Next Choices: Netbook or CULV?

By: bodydetox

bodydetox — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:18:36 +0000

i love the Asus Eee PC, it is very light, cheap and portable. I also bought another unit for my girlfriend and she really likes it.

By: Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:41:12 +0000

Resolution is starting to look more important to me than screen size. I’ve got the 1000HE, which is wonderful aside from the heat and clacky keyboard, but not to have a minimum of 1024×768 makes a lot of content browsing painful.

I came from an Thinkpad X41 tablet, so I’m used to 4:3 screens. 600 vertical pixels doesn’t give a lot of vertical room, especially with browser chrome, the taskbar and so on (I know you can turn them off, but I prefer them).

The other main drawback for the 10.2″ screen of the 1000HE is the smaller keyboard and lack of dedicated PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End keys. I never realized how much I depend on them for navigation. My hope is that 11″ or 12″ screens will mean a slightly larger netbook case and the ability to reintroduce them to the keyboard.

By: swissbanker

swissbanker — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:27:27 +0000

I used to love my 12inch white iBook. Size was perfect, just too heavy and I haven’t used a DVD/CD-drive for a very long time except installing software. I currently use an Acer Aspire One with Ubuntu 9.04 and am looking for a slightly larger screen – the Lenovo S12 with the ION chip looks perfect to me.

By: Tom Y

Tom Y — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:55:51 +0000

I had been thinking the same thing in the past few months. I had saved up the money to buy either a Viliv S5 or X70 but decided that a keyboard was important to me. I also own a Asus Eee 1000 HE netbook, which has been a faithful companion, but a tad small, little cramped keyboard and with the atom processor a little underpowered for my usage. But it was the device that got me used to 5+ hours of battery life. Looking to get something a bit larger, yet still portable with decent performance I started researching. I ended up buying an Acer Timeline 3810T with a Centrino2 SU9400 (1.4GHZ) 4gb ram upgradeable to 8gb, 500GB hard drive, 13.3″ LED screen. For $899 at MicroCenter. It is quite a step above the atom processor, but not a Core 2 Duo. But with 7+ hours of battery life and 3.5 pounds its my new go anywhere rig. So I have gone the CULV route and away from the Atom processor. I wanted to like the Asus T91, but its not quite there yet. And at $499 its a bit above what I would pay for another Atom processor, especially with small amount of drive space.

By: NBN

NBN — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:03:16 +0000

There’s a world of difference between the 11.6 screen and 10.2 inch screens. Unfortunately the CPU power (Z520) is not quite sufficient yet to take complete advantage of the better screen.

For myself though, $500 is on the high end for a netbook. Keeping netbook prices around $300-$400 makes them more of an impluse/convenience buy. But $500 to many people is a spending barrier that puts the buying decision into the “will need to think about it” range.

By: Sean Brady

Sean Brady — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:24:04 +0000

I am just about to purchased a powerful new desktop. That will be my getting things done at home machine, and my central repository for backups etc.

I am going to supplement that machine with cheaper netbook style devices. I want the cheaper devices because they evolve so quickly I think it is likely that I will only hold on to one for 8 months or so (I am ready to replace my EEE 901). The old devices go up on Ebay as soon as I get rid of relatives who would just kill for my old one.

I think the 500 price point that many of the new ASUS machines are coming in at is a good point. I like the Seashell design quite a bit. I still have my eye on that T91, but I think it more likely that I will get either the 1005ha or perhaps this one.

By: Rodfather

Rodfather — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:14:33 +0000

These days, I’ll go with the cheaper one. If I want to edit/encode video or play games, I’ll use the desktop.

I bought my first 12″ optical drive-free subnotebook around 1999 and it cost me almost $2000. If I had the choice to get a cheaper one, I would.