The system's battery life is where the new Atom platform really shines. Asus has always had some of the longest-lived Netbooks, and the new 1005PE ran for 8 hours and 25 minutes on our video playback battery drain test. That dwarfs the competition and, coupled with the system's low energy consumption, makes for a great all-day solution for road warriors.
Asus covers its laptops with a standard, one-year, parts-and-labor warranty, and it offers online Web-based help and a toll-free phone number. The company's confusing mix of support Web sites is a bit of a mess, but after digging around on three different related support subsites, we did manage to finally dig up the U.S. 24-7 toll-free support number, which is 888-678-3688.
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System configurations:
Asus Eee PC 1005PE
Windows 7 Starter; 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz; 215MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 3150; 250GB Seagate 5400rpm
Asus Eee PC 1005HAGB
Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz; 256MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 950; 160GB Hitachi 5,400rpm
HP Mini 311
Windows XP Home SP3; 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280; 1024MB DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz; 512MB (Shared) Nvidia Ion LE; 160GB Seagate 5,400rpm
Asus Eee PC 1201N
Windows 7 Home Premium; 1.6GHz Intel Atom N330 Dual-Core, 2048MB DDR2 SDRAM 2050MHz; 256MB Nvidia Ion; 250GB Hitachi 5,400rpm
Lenovo IdeaPad S12 (Nvidia Ion)
Windows 7 Home Premium; 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270; 3072MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; 256MB Nvidia Ion; 320GB Western Digital 5,400rpm
