Asus Eee PC 1011HA Hands-On Video

The Asus Eee PC 1011HA will be the first mini laptop with 11.6-inch screen from Asus. While it's not yet released in the U.S., Portable Monkey from Japan has got a unit there and done a first impression video on this mini laptop.

Here are some point of interest on this video:

• The Eee PC 1011HA appears to be quite light and thin even with the 6-cell battery.
  
• The keyboard has small right shift key at the wrong place.
• The touchpad does not has multi-touch functionality
  

Here's the video:



The Asus Eee PC 1101HA comes with a glossy screen with 1366 x 768 resolution, a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive.

Asus And Samsung To Release 11-inch Mini Laptops Soon

While Acer is the first company to release the 11-inch netbook with its Aspire One 751, we are about to see more mini laptops of the same size from Asus and Samsung very soon.


Asus Eee PC 1101HA will be the first upcoming mini laptop from Asus with an 11.6-inch screen. It's one of the member from Asus "Seashell" series of netbook, and thus looks a lot like the Eee PC 1005HA and 1008HA in terms of styling. They are quite different though in terms of internal parts. Besides a larger screen and higher resolution (1366 x 768 pixels), the Eee PC 1101HA will comes with a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 CPU, US15W chipset, and GMA 500 graphics instead of the normal Intel Atom N270/N280 chipset that most 10-inch netbook have today. The rest of the parts for this netbook are standards: 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, a 1.3MB webcam, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive. The Asus Eee PC 1101HA is expected to to be released by end of July.


On the other hand, there are rumors about Samsung planning to release an 11.6-inch netbook with the model name of N510. The netbook will comes with an 11.6-inch screen with 1366 x 768 resolution, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 Processor, NVIDIA ION chipset, GeForce 9400M graphics, a 160GB hard drive, and 1GB of RAM. Also, the price for the Samsung N510 will be around $650, and is estimated to start shipping on 30th of June, according to rumors.

Asus Unveils 11.6-inch Eee PC 1101HA

Following the release of Acer Aspire One AO751H, Asus is also showing off their first netbook with 11.6-inch display, called the Eee PC 1101HA, at Computex this week.


The Asus Eee PC 1101HA will feature a 11.6-inch LCD screen with a 1,366 x 768 resolution, an Intel's Atom Z520 / Z530 processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, a multicard reader, three USB 2.0 ports, and a battery with up to 11 hours of usage. In terms of styling, the 1101HA looks a lot like the recently launched Seashell line of netbooks. More details about the Asus Eee PC 1101HA netbook is to be announced on Computex 2009.

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