Well, I recently received my new toy, the ASUS Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X. I haven't had very much time to play with it, yet; mainly because I was pushing to get some work stuff done this week. Even with the limited amount of time, I figured I post some pictures and compare it with my old Acer Aspire 3004WLMi.First, I'll start with a basic spec comparison between the two.
| Acer Aspire 3004WLMi | Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X | |
|---|---|---|
| Processor Speed | 1.8 GHz | 1.66 GHz |
| Processor | Mobile AMD Sempron™ Processor 3100+ | Intel Atom N280 |
| Memory | 512 MB DDR | 1 GB DDR2 |
| Hard Drive | 60 GB | 160 GB |
| Display | 15.4" WXGA | 10.1" WSVGA |
| Max resoultion | 1280 x 800 | 1024 x 600 |
| Weight | 6.2 lb. | 2.9 lb. |
| Size (LxWxH) | 14.3" x 11.0" x 1.5" | 10.31" x 7.01" x 1.02" |
| Battery Life | 1.5 hours | 10.5 hours |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11b/g | 802.11 b/g/n |
My new Eee netbook definitely has some big pluses compared to my old Acer, such has the weight, size, hard drive, and battery life. The rest of the specs are pretty equal or to be expected when comparing a laptop to a netbook. Specs are good and all, but a picture comparison is just where it is at to really see the size difference.
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Hopefully, I will get some time this weekend to get my new machine all configured and put it through some stress tests to see what it can handle. Depending on the performance, I might consider buying a 2 GB stick of RAM to throw in there. This assumes I'm not distracted by LittleBigPlanet (^_^).
Wow. Tiny little thing. I just don't understand netbooks... is it just a really small laptop? I thought pretty much all you could do on these things was surf the net?
ReplyDeleteYeah, basically a netbook is a just a mini laptop. Nope, you can do much more than just surfing the net. I can do pretty much all my general computing tasks on it. I actually just installed a couple of games on the eee pc. (^_^)
ReplyDeleteHmmm... that makes them seem much more interesting. And affordable. I thought I read somewhere that they have some that basically only surf the net, or am I crazy? (Don't answer that.)
ReplyDeleteYou are probably thinking of the talk when they first came out and/or the gOS. When they first came out Web 2.0 applications and cloud computing were getting a lot of attention, such as the Google Apps. Also some of the initial netbooks had tiny SSDs, so Web 2.0 apps and documents that you could store in "the cloud" seemed perfect for the early netbooks. Granted, even the first netbooks were still able to do general computing tasks, since all of them were still based on a full fledged OS behind a sometimes simplified GUI.
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