Well the Asus Eee PC 1201n won’t be shipping until Jan 15th but you can preorder one now for $499. The specs on this netbook/notebook are pretty impressive, it features the N330 dual core processor and Nvidia Ion graphics. This beast has no problem outperforming other netbooks and pushing HD graphics.
The folks at blogee have already done a review and found that the 1201n is capable of playing games with the graphics settings turned up to a reasonable level, and HD videos are no problem. With the dual core processor comes a lot of power consumption though. Looping an HD video resulted in a 2 hour and 45 minute battery life from a 6 cell unit. At a more reasonable setting of half rss reading and half video watching the battery lasted 4 hours and 45 minutes, which is a little more realistic.
The dual core processor does put out a little heat as you can imagine, the heat map looks like there’s a hair dryer inside the netbook.
Apart from some comments about the battery not fitting very snugly the overall impression was that this is definitely a perfect in-between if you can’t decide between a powerful netbook or a cheap laptop. And the $499 price tag doesn’t hurt either.
via blogee
