Showing posts sorted by relevance for query EEE PC 1000. Sort by date Show all posts
Showing posts sorted by relevance for query EEE PC 1000. Sort by date Show all posts

## Monday, June 2, 2008

### EEE PC News - EEE PC 901 and 1000 / 1000H for Sale!

Email This BlogThis!Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest
Asus presented the new ultra portable laptop EEE PC 901 at the Computex conference (Taipei) with the following features

- 1.6GHz Atom CPU
- 1GB memory
- 12GB or 20GB SDD hard disk
- 8.9-inch display
- Bluetooth and WLAN (802.11n)
- up to 3.2 to 7.8h battery
  life

The EEE PC 901 basis version should cost about $559.
At the same time Asus announced the launch of the subnotebook EEE PC 1000, main difference from the 901 seems to be a bigger display (10.2-inch) and hard disk 40GB / 80GB SDD.
I already pre-announced (some details about the new EEE PC 901)
EEE Journal Home Page

## Sunday, May 18, 2008

### EEE PC News - Benchmark comparing Atom (Diamondville) vs Celeron vs Core 2 Duo

Email This BlogThis!Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest
UPDATE: see also new post with new tests/benchmarks and all articles about

- Benchmarks
- Performance

The Japanese site Impress (pc.watch.impress.co.jp) published PCMark 05 benchmark results comparing a MSI Wind desktop (not to be confused with the MSI Wind ultra portable laptop).
So you may say, what's the matter? The benchmark is of interest since the MSI Wind desktop is equipped with an Atom (Diamondville) CPU clocked at 1.33GHz, chipset Intel 945GC Express, 1GB SDRAM, Windows Vista.
The other tested devices

- Asus EEE PC 900: Celeron M 900MHz, 1GB SDRAM and Windows XP
- Asus EEE PC 701 4G: Celeron M 630MHz, 512MB SDRAM and Windows XP
- Sony Vaio T VGN TZ905: Core 2 Duo U7600 (1.2GHz), 2GB SDRAM and Windows XP

Before giving the results: also in this case I have some (little) doubths about the test methodology! It is important to compare apple with apples! Nevertheless I must say that the result of this benchmark is far more applicable to the Atoms SuperPI benchmark and the CrystalMark benchmarks agains VIA Isaiah (C8) other published in the past weeks.
There were two major differences between the Atom system (MSI Wind desktop) and the other systems

1. Operating system: the Atom and Core 2 Duo systems were running Windows Vista while the EEE PCs run Windows XP. Vista slows down dramatically PC performance. This is especially true for systems with little memory and for slower CPUs, as typical for ultra portable laptops and tiny desktops.
2. PC type: Impress compared the three listed ultra portable laptops with a tiny desktop. This is also not optimal, since tiny desktops and ultra portable laptops are built using different parts and requirements.

That said, here you have some of the results.
Compared to the Celeron system, the Atom system scores well on the system tests while in the CPU benchmark the Atom numbers look very bad.
It seems confirmed that Intel Atom is not suitable for CPU intensive tasks, BUT WHO CARES????
Atom's best feature is the very low power consumption, Atom targets cheap ultra portable laptops and desktops, mainly used for surfing and casual Office. If you need performance you should buy a Core 2 Duo and add 1000 bucks by the way... ;-)
PCMark05 (syntetic index of the overall system performance)

- 2328 Core 2 Duo 1,2GHz
- 1468 Atom 1,33GHz
- 1126 Celeron 900MHz
- 818 Celeron 630MHz

CPU Score (use very CPU intensive algorithms: file comp/decompression, en/decryption, image and audio comp/decompression)

- 2328 Core 2 Duo 1,2GHz
- 1441 Celeron 900MHz
- 1159 Atom 1,33GHz
- 997 Celeron 630MHz

The good PCMark05 value can be explained to the relatively high HDD score (4x higher than the EEE PC 900, 2x higher than the Vaio) and the good memory score (slightly below the Vaio and higher than both EEE PCs).
About the CPU score: I think that here we can see that the Atom was designed with power in mind, not for CPU intensive task. We can see this especially with the major difference between the Atom and Core 2 Duo result. The latter scores well, given the dual core and the performant CPU architecture. Also the Celeron CPU is much more complex than the Atom and we see the results in the CPU benchmark.
UPDATE: see also new post with new tests/benchmarks and all articles about

- Benchmarks
- Performance

## Saturday, December 12, 2009

### Best Netbook with Matte Display (and for outdoor usage)

Email This BlogThis!Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest
If you are in a hurry: these are the netbooks with matte display that I suggest, see also below the description

Be careful when buying a netbook: consider the fact that most of the netbooks are shipped with glossy/glare display, many people find it annoying (me for example) and prefer a matte display. This is especially important if you plant to use the netbook outdoor or in conditions of brigth sun.

#### Glare vs matte display in a nutshell

Glossy/glare displays got nicer crisps images, in fact matte display got an additional non-reflecting layer that tends to make the image a bit softer. On the other hand the big advantage of the matte displays is that they don't reflect your image.
The reflections on glare displays can be very annoying (and let the image disappear) outdoor and/or with direct light source from the backside. In order to "reduce" this annoying effect the glare displays must be very bright (more than 200cd/m2).

#### Best netbooks with matte display

As far as I know all 10-inch Samsung netbooks got a non-glare (Matte) display.
I personally think that Samsung buils the best netbooks: if you want to have a good netbook with matte display you can't be wrong with a Samsung, for example the NC10 models are among the best netbooks available today
You must pay attention with Asus netbooks since only part of the EEE PC netbooks got a matte display, you have to search for...

- The new EEE PC 1005HA ("normal" and Seashell) line got few models with matte display, namely all EEE PC 1005HA-M models. Older Asus EEE PC 1000 and 1000HE models got also a Matte display.
- "Family issue": the display of all Asus EEE PCs isn't that brigth, actually is rather dark. This can be changed by software, the eeectl utility allow you enhance the display brigthness to excellent values. Of course this is not covered by Asus guarrantee...

## Wednesday, December 17, 2008

### Netbook features database: find best netbook for you!

Email This BlogThis!Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest
I've updated my netbook/mini-laptop/mini-notebook comparison table with many more models and details, it can be a great help to find the best netbook for you!
I called it "netbook database" with many details/features about the most important netbooks/mini laptops actually on sale and especially some filter criterias that can help you choose the right netbook to buy.
You can search by display size, operating system, bluetooth support and battery. In the next few days I'll add more and more search criteria and especially details about performance/benchmarks.
Among others, you can currently find

- Many EEE PC 701, 900, 901, 1000, 1000H, S101, N10
- Acer Aspire One models
- MSI Wind U90 and U100
- Samsung NC10

Display class
Operating system
Bluetooth support
High capacity battery
Weight
ExpressCard
WLAN/WiFi
Link to the netbook/mini laptops database
Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)