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On April 10, 2010, three of the leading overclocking teams in North America battle it out for two days using the new ASUS ROG Rampage III Extreme and Maximus III Extreme motherboards. Team Pure, OC Alliance and XtremeSystems will go head to head in a 3-way overclocking shootout featuring ten different benchmarks. Which team will climb to the top? Which team will take home the trophies and prizes? Find out who is leading and breaking records as the ASUS 3×3 OC Summit is streamed live here. Our very own Chris Morrell is in the competition under Team PURE and we wish him the best of luck and hope his team destroys the others!
The 10008P has some new features about it and ones that will certainly make people take a second look at it. ASUS brought in a top designer to re-imagine the look of the 1008P giving it a Digi-Wave lid which resembles crocodile skin. The design gives it a higher-class look. The 1008P comes in a hot pink or matte coffee finish which may be less desirable to some buyers.
The Eee PC1008P is a lot thinner than most other netbooks on the market with a 1-inch thick chassis. All the ports are hidden behind rubber flaps. There is a mini VGA port on the left side of the device as well as a VGA adapter that pops out of the bottom of the netbook. Read more…
When ASUS launched a little device called the Eee PC a couple years back, it was greeted with mixed feelings. Some people loved the original Eee PC, and others thought it was more of a gimmick. It was light and it could do basic computing, but so many items were lacking that like most things, you got what you paid for.
If you were looking for something small and inexpensive, great, but for me it was too small – 7″ was more like a large PDA than a small laptop. I couldn’t type comfortably, the 800×480 LCD was cramped even for basic Linux applications, and the 630MHz (underclocked 900MHz) Celeron processor was anything but fast.
After trying to figure out whether or not to buy a netbook over a laptop, I decided on the netbook. Specifically, I bought a ASUS 1000HE as it came as one of the most highly rated netbooks on the market. But like with any computer purchase, you don’t know how it will work in “real life” until you get it home and try it out. So, after a month using it, I thought that I would report back and let you know the good and the bad about the netbook.
One of my biggest concerns when I bought the computer was that I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to type effectively on the keyboard. With it being only 92% of normal size, I was worried that my man hands would have some issues. But after just a couple of days, it turns out that typing on the keyboard was almost second nature, and I have had few problems since. My only gripe would be the right shift key – though it is in the right place, it can be hard to hit since it is smaller than normal.
My only other gripe with the keyboard area would be the quick keys in the top left hand corner. They allow you to change the resolution, shut off the backlight, engage the super-hybrid engine and launch Skype. My “man hands” have some issues pushing them – I guess if I had pointier hands it might be easier.
Moving on to the display, it works very well, and I find myself usually in the 1024×768 compress mode because some of the software that I routinely use needs the extra height to fit on the screen properly. It also works very well hooked up to my 24” LCD monitor – you can use up to 1920×1200 with no problems. I only have one complaint with the screen – if you use an application like Microsoft Excel, you can’t see the lines on every second cell.
Otherwise, my experience with the computer has been wonderful. The touchpad works well (though I had to shut off the zooming function), the sound from the speakers is louder than I would have expected, and the webcam works okay (unless there is a ton of movement). If someone would ask me if I’d recommend it, I certainly would – it has been one of the best laptops that I have ever purchased.