Asus Eee PC 1015PE

NOTE: This Asus netbook has been discontinued, and replaced by the Asus Eee PC 1015PEM – see below for best prices

Asus netbooks were the first on the market when the netbook craze took off, and Asus have kept on producing market leading cheap netbooks with fantastic quality ever since.
Their latest Seashell netbook, the 1015PE is a worthy addition to their netbook range, and comes in at a great low price.

Asus Eee PC 1015 PEM Seashell netbook - a dual core netbook

Using the Intel 1.5GHz dual core Atom N550 processor, this Asus netbook is fast, solidly built and has a fantastic battery life of around nine hours, so you’ll be able to take this little beauty out and about with you and not have to worry where the nearest power point is.
And this netbook is future proof, with the first USB3 ports we’ve seen in a netbook, as well as the regular USB2, Bluetooth, Ethernet and WiFi.
250 Gigabytes of hard disk, Window 7 starter edition and a superb matt finish 10.1 inch TFT display complete this package to make Asus new netbook a stylish, hard working, well built netbook which for a price of around £250 will be hard to beat.
We’ve checked out the lowest prices on the internet for you, updated in REAL TIME, so you’re always sure of the best price without searching around.

Asus Eee 701 netbook

The Asus Eee 701 . NOTE: This Asus netbook is discontinued. Check out its replacement the Asus Eee PC 1005.

Asus Eee-701 netbook

If you’re looking for an ultra compact netbook, then the Asus Eee 701 with its 7 inch TFT display could be the one for you.

The Asus Eee 701 may be tiny, but you’ll be amazed by its class, its performance and its features. And you probably paid more for your mobile phone than you will do for the Asus Eee 701 netbook.

Its 7 inch screen has outstanding clarity and can be used all day with comfort. There’s a good 4GB of flash storage, so no moving parts there, and you can double this with an SD card in the slot provided. Weighing in at well under a kilo, you’ll put this great cheap netbook in your pocket and forget it’s there – or you would if you didn’t find it so indispensable. It’s low on price, but big on features and usability.

When cheap netbooks come this good, why spend more?

Up a mountain with our top outdoor netbook

Well I’ve just come back from testing our recommended outdoors netbook in the most extreme conditions there are. And it passed with flying colours. Yes the Asus Eee 901 netbook went up the Eiger in my backpack, survived subzero temperatures and never batted an eyelid.

Outdoor netbooks

You’ll know that the Asus Eee netbook has a claimed battery life of some 8 hours, but I found I regularly exceeded that even on the snowy mountaintop without having a powerpoint in sight.

A cheap netbook it may be, but the Asus Eee 901 netbook is cheap only in price. It connected instantly to the wifi point at our lodge on the Eiger, saw me through a couple of net metetings and dozens of calls home, played Colbie Caillat non-stop, and performed as only the Atom processor can.

So if you’re the outdoor type looking for the perfect outdoor netbook to take on your travels, look no further. The Asus Eee 901 netbook is the netbook for you. Buy it now.

Or if you’ve come here looking for info about the Eiger instead of netbooks, then check out this great book about the life and death struggle between one man and this fearsome mountain – I couldn’t put it down.

Tim

Review of Asus Eee 901 netbook

The best cheap netbook for travellers and the outdoors.

The Asus Eee 901 is a cheap netbook that comes in two versions – the first with Linux and 20GB of solid state disk storage, and the second with Windows XP and 12GB of solid state storage.

I tested the Linux version, and though I’m more familiar with Windows, the user interface was very easy to pick up.

The Eee 901 netbook is a well-built solid little machine, so would be great for travellers and those who just want to stick it in their backpack as they travel the globe – or just travel to work or college. And Asus supply it complete with a great little padded travel pouch for extra protection, so you don’t even need to buy a separate case.

The three USB ports worked fine with my external hard drive for upping and downloading files, and I particularly liked the SD card slot for extra  storage. I  plugged in the card from my digital SLR to view photos on the brilliant screen and they looked superb, full of detail..

The Eee 901 comes with wifi of course, but also with bluetooth which I found very helpful.

But the feature that really blew me away was the battery life. I took the 901 about with me for a week and regularly got over 7 hours battery life on a single charge. For such an incredibly light cheap netbook, this is just fabulous.

Some other netbooks I’ve tried – and I’ve tested quite a few – have a battery life that made me unwilling to take them too far from a power point, but with the Asus Eee 901 I had every confidence that I’d take it out fully charged in the morning and it would still be going strong that night.

This great battery life, rugged design and sheer usability make the Asus Eee 901 our recommended cheap laptop for the traveller or those with an outdoor lifestyle.

Buy it, you won’t be disappointed.