Review of the Asus Eee PC 1000HE Netbook

Netbooks are currently all the rage – and why not? They are small, cheap, have batteries ranging from fairly good to amazing and they do what they say on the tin!

People are buying Netbooks instead of, or as well as laptops because they want something small and ultra portable to carry around when they only want to do a limited set of tasks, such as check email or surf the Internet.

Asus have been in the Netbook market for a while now and they consistently produce cheap(ish), good quality Netbooks, and the Eee PC 1000HE is no exception.

SPECIFICATION

Weight wise it is not as light as some of the Netbooks I have seen, but it isn’t that heavy either.

For those of you who are interested in a little more detail on the hardware, see the report below:

CONCLUSIONS

I quite like this Netbook, it has an amazing battery life and it quite light, however there is something about it that I just cant quite put my finger on that bugs me. I think its the keyboard to be honest, its a bit plasticy, in fact the whole Netbook feels a bit plasticy. Now don’t get me wrong, that is no reason not to seriously look at this machine if you are interested – the processor is good and the rest of the specification should keep people happy.

I suppose for me the thing that would make this Netbook better would be a lower price – but maybe I am just being picky!

The 1000HE can be purchased for around £330 in the UK from Amazon, and around $375 in the US from Amazon. Once again it is obvious that we in the UK are having to pay a significantly higher price than our American cousins!

If you are seriously in the market for a Netbook, take a look at the 1000HE, but you may also want to look at Asus’s new Seashell Netbook! Hopefully we will have a review of that shortly.