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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Asus shows new Eee Pcs, with Atom processors

Engadget Chinese went to the Asus press briefing at the Computex show in Taiwan and emerged with a snap of three Eee PC notebooks side by side. The PC1000 with 10.2 inch screen is obviously the biggest. The PC901 with 8.9 inch screen (middle) and the original PC701, with 7 inch screen, are more or less the same size.

They should all be available with 1.6GHz Intel Atom N230 processors, instead of 900MHz Celeron-M chips. Whether the Atom will be faster is open to doubt: Fudzilla was disappointed with the Atom's performance, after testing a desktop board, but it certainly uses less power.

Engadget says: "New 6-cell battery offers up to 7.5-hours of battery for Eee PC 1000, 7.8-hours for 901, 7 hours for Eee PC 1000H."

The PC 1000H model will have an 80GB or 160GB hard drive -- the bigger one comes with Linux instead of Windows, to keep the retail prices consistent.

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