Dec 19 2009

Eee PC 1201N Reviewed and Found Wanting

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eeepc 1210N

A few reviews for the recently on sale 12-incher from Asus have been coming in and while there are good points to be considered, it also seems to be lackluster in performance compared to similiarly priced CULV units.

As from our previous post, the specs combine both a dual core Atom with NVIDIA Ion for better graphics as well as a bigger screen that’s already bordering on notebook size. The battery life suffers though and the $499 price point is just a few bills short of a well performing CULV-based notebook. It’s kind of confused if it wants to be netbook with better video and gaming capabilities or a lightweight notebook alternative.

We’ll probably know more once they get into the hands of the public and see how it goes.

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  • attery. I've often lamented my other laptop's unwillingness to go bright to plugged-in levels on battery (yes, it eats more power), but this goes sharp.

    Keyboard is decent. My hands are normal man size (?) but I'm getting used to it. Backspace could be larger.

    Single speaker is pretty terrible. Not loud, don't think about listening to music on it. It has a headphone jack, though.

    Restore feature is nice addition. I have not tried it out, though.

    This gets three stars because it is capital S.L.O.W. Now, granted apparently these 1.6 ghz CPUs are more like a Celeron of half the mhz or a bit more, but I just found in general using this on Windows Starter 7 to be unenjoyable. Everything lags. Loading Internet Explorer takes too long. Google Chrome takes too long. Opening new tabs within the browser is quick but then loading each one is slow. Scrolling skips from time to time as something else thinks about loading. Go into control panel and watch the progress bar. Literal
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