ASUS Eee PC 1000H Reviews
Though the former solid-state drives of the previous Eee PC provided speedy boot up times and protection due to their lack of moving parts, onboard storage capacity was rather limited. To appease those looking for a mini-notebook with more space, the 1000H has an 80GB Seagate Momentus 5,400-rpm hard drive. The drive is partitioned into two 40GB sections and didn’t slow down the usually speedy Eee PC boot time; the 1000H was ready to go in a pretty quick 40 seconds.
Like we saw with the MSI Wind NB and the Eee PC 901, the system’s 1.6-GHz Intel Atom processor and 1GB of RAM provided solid performance. We couldn’t run our usual PC Mark05 test on the system, but in our hands-on experience, the 1000H was snappy. FireFox and Windows Media Player opened quickly, and we saw no performance hit when we conducted video calls over Skype, surfed the Web, and streamed music. The integrated graphics scored 739 in our 3DMark03 test (better than the MSI Wind NB’s score of 606), and was even able to run the graphics intensive Second Life.
Very Good Battery Life
One of the biggest selling points of the Atom processor is the ability to provide lots of endurance, at least when paired with a nice sized battery. The 1000H’s 6-cell battery lasted an impressive 4 hours and 28 minutes with Wi-Fi turned on. This is plenty of juice for a cross-country flight and is similar to the Wind NB’s runtime