Once again, Asus are to renew one of their netbooks, this time it comes in the form of the Asus Eee PC 1001PX. While it’s considered a budget netbook, the specs are no lower than you would expect, only the price. The base model will feature a 160GB hard drive, run Windows XP and have a battery life of 5 hours. This model will retail for €241, the same price as the first Eee PC 701.

While the second version, will retail for €300 and include a 250GB hard drive, run Windows 7 and have a battery life of 9 hours. Both netbooks will include the standard 1GB of RAM, along with the latest Intel Atom CPU, the N450. Asus are due to announce the netbook in the next couple of days.

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Here we have another mod done on the netbook that started it all, the Eee PC 701. The main goal was to turn it into a mini media center for watching flicks and reading eBooks. User McG from EeeUser posted up a quick how-to and teardown of his unit to show how he did his mod.

It was certainly a labor of love and he did a swell job of putting it together. He even added on an extended battery which should be useful as a handle and a slot for the stylus.

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User raven_of_1985 from the EeeUser forums just cured his tablet itch. He picked up an Eee 701 and implanted a touchscreen kit to turn it into a low-cost slate.

Right not it runs on Xandros if I’m not mistaken but he’s looking for a decent touchscreen app (or possibly turn to Windows XP) to make it work.

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The latest tablet netbook mod, is byEeeUser forum member, mxjf. He’s turned the Asus Eee PC 701 into a touch screen tablet. Windows XP is easy to navigate through the touch display, while over all, it’s very responsive. A video has been uploaded showing off the tablet mod and it shows how easy it is to navigate the OS and shows the responsiveness of web browsing. Unfortunately the video quality isn’t that great but, it’s clear enough to see how well the mod turned out.

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We’ve previously seen one modder add a touch screen to his Eee PC 901 and built it into a kitchen cabinet. It seems he’s not the only one to make this move. Another modder has modded his Eee PC 701, given it 2GB of RAM, a touch screen along with a TV receiver and sound system. He’s then added it to a kitchen cupboard, making it a “Kitchen PC”. You can see the video of how he did this below.

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Old netbook models are inevitably going to drop in prices, and this is currently the case in Taiwan, albeit it’s not because of the typical reason one might expect. Instead of dropping prices for their netbooks solely due to the increasing number of new models and reduced component cost, both Asus and Acer are issuing price cuts for their SSD-based netbooks because of their built-in SSDs. SSD adoption isn’t as hot as it used to anymore, and the hard drive remains the premier choice for large and affordable storage on netbooks. Due to this price drop, the Acer Aspire One with 8GB SSD costs only $202 USD while the 20GB SSD-equipped Asus Eee PC 701 goes for $260.

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A diligent poster on the Eee User forums has come up with a way to take old laptop battery cells and put them together to form a 12-cell battery pack for his Asus Eee PC 701. The work is done by a single person, and the end product won’t exactly win any design awards, but it does give a netbook up to 15 hours on a single charge. It’s worth noting, though, that a single charge of this thing lasts 12 hours from 0-100%. So it depends on how you look at things whether you consider this to be a good thing or just a hassle. No instructions are available, but you can view more photos at the Eee User forum post linked below.

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When you think about netbook operating systems, I bet Android never comes to mind. But you know what, that versatile smartphone OS can actually be used for netbooks, and while it doesn’t work great (a lot of the applications are undoubtedly incompatible or not practical), anyone looking to have a quick spin of Android without having to buy an Android handset should pay attention here. There’s a detailed how-to for installing Android on the Asus Eee PC 701 out on the interwebs, and all that’s needed are the following:

1. A machine running Ubuntu
2. An Eee PC 701
3. A USB flash drive (the instructions don’t say how large it needs to be, but I’d think a 1GB stick would do)

Needless to say, installing Android will mop everything out from the Eee PC 701′s built-in storage. And the method detailed in the how-to doesn’t work for other Eee PC models for now. If you have some knowledge in kernel hacking, you might want to offer your help in this open-source project.

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