Asus is known for its exclusive Eee PC and this new Eee PC 1005PE-PU17-BK known is the latest release to its netbook queue. It’s the newest Intel Atom N450 processor. The new processor gains the netbook to run 14 hours, as modified on the data sheet of the netbook. Let us look at the other details of the device and decide whether it is not worth to a buy or not.

Design and Building

There’s nothing new in the design itself and all seems to look like the 1005 HA Seashell. The overall design is a bit thicker, with its removable battery life, however doesn’t look weird at any cost. The overall build quality is very good like this for a budget laptop and has a pretty solid feel.

Performance

The new Intel Atom N450 is a powerful processor, however in almost the same processing capability as the joint N270 or N280 processor. However the difference is because it uses the Intel GMA 3150 graphics, while the older Atom 280 processors with the Intel GMA 950 graphics card has been inserted. The system is a bit better position, things like HD video, or an occasional meeting or vision, etc. Don’t try to handle a high def 3-D game play in that unit because you will probably be disappointment. The 1 GB SDRAM is well enough for normal everyday tasks, and the 250 GB hard drive is enough for all your favorite music and videos and all the others, what to save.

Display

The display is a standard 1024 X 600 pixel display measuring 10.1 inches diagonally. The screen is a bright one, a very good brightness and contrast is with live colors, however, as was common, it loses from reflections and glare in bright light conditions. When it comes to viewing angle of the display, I’d say that the vertical viewing angles are fairly average, and the horizontal ones just a little bit better. You don’t need to worry about, as you will not see an HD movie in this netbook with a few friends.

Audio

We were impressed with the sound quality, but, particularly considering the average quality of the budget netbook speakers. The speakers sounded very good, even at high volume without distortion. The high and midrange sound was very good and it’s apparently not a bass without a separate subwoofer, don’t hear about the 1005PE-PU17-BK. A good headset for the music lovers, as always, is recommended.

Keyboard

The keyboard is very resilient and have good feedback and response. It’s a good response to sound press the keys and the chicklet style keyboards are very good to see very well. We had no problem typing at high speeds in this keyboard if we expect that the keys to a bit bigger.

TouchPad

The touchpad also has very good resonance with synaptics technology. The surface of the touch pad is rough and feels very well during the movement of our fingers on the touchpad. It also supports multiple finger gestures and sign language, you are able to customize them as well. But, the buttons are not so good. They have a very shallow feedback, and it is very unpleasant, click it comfortably.

Ports

It’s VGA out, USB port, Security lock slot and power jack on the left side and a 4 – in – 1 card reader, headphone and microphone jack and two more USB port and an Ethernet connector needed at the right side. It is not missing any important slot however not yet advanced connections such as Firewire or HDMI port. However the port selection should be more than enough for normal use.

Battery life

The new processor is the biggest advantage of better battery life. In our tests, we have a large 12-hour period with little or no use of our will to break all previous records. With the heavy workload, you can expect 1005PE-PU17-BK to run at least 8 hours, this is not a joke by all means.

Conclusion

If you want an animal power, this is not the laptop for you, however if you have a sleep mode, there is no better laptop than this. With its stellar battery life and good overall properties and the build quality is definitely a good laptop for those who will use it for normal everyday use of energy sources for quite some time.