ASUS Eee PC 1005PE Netbook with Intel Atom N450

Specifications

ASUS Eee PC 1005PE Specs:

• Processor: Intel Atom N450 Processor: 1.66 GHz
• OS: Windows 7 Starter
• Chipset: Mobile Intel NM10
• Memory: 1 GB DDR2 SODIMM socket for expansion up to 4GB SDRAM
• Display: 10.1″
• Video Graphics: Intel GMA 3150
• HDD: 250 GB
• Card Reader: SD (SDHC),MMC
• Video Camera: 0.3 Mega Pixel web camera
• Communications:

• 10/100Mbps LAN
• 802.11b/g/n Wireless
• Bluetooth

Interface:

• 1 x Microphone-in jack
• 1 x Headphone-out jack
• 3 x USB 2.0 ports
• 1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert

Audio:

• Built-in stereo speakers

Battery Pack: 6 cells/5800 mAh/+10.8V/63Wh

Dimension & Weight:

• 10.31″ x 7.01″ x 1.02″~1.44″ (W x D x H)
• 2.8 lbs.

Windows 7 Starter Operating System

Here we see the Windows 7 Windows Experience Index. We see that the Processor score received the lowest score and is deemed by Windows as the bottleneck of this netbook. This seems like a reasonable assessment. However, even though the graphics score was high enough to enable the Windows Aero look and feel, since we are running the Starter edition of Windows 7, we will not get that feature.

ASUS Eee PC 1005PE Pricing

For our testing, we put the ASUS Eee PC 1005PE Netbook up against the following systems: