Asus Eee 1201PN now official

Asus has now officially announced its ION-2 netbook – The Asus 1201PN. This 12.1-incher is now available in retail at 479 Euros. Just like most of the netbooks, it is powered by an Atom N450 processor, 250GB HDD, 2GB RAM, 12.1-inch LED display, 1366×768 resolution screen, but with a difference – next-generation Nvidia ION GPU which has these benefits:

> Fuse great performance and great battery life on Next Generation NVIDIA ION netbooks featuring NVIDIA® Optimus technology*

> Over 10 times the performance of integrated graphics

> Experience 1080p HD video on sites like YouTube HD or from Blu-Ray discs

> Play the most popular PC games like World of Warcraft and Spore

> Delivers the Windows 7 Home Premium experience

ION-2 review

Lucky folks at notebookcheck have got their hands on the Asus Eee 1201PN that features the ION-2 aka, next-generation ION chipset (GeForce GT218). And boy, it blows every single netbook out there in muscle and power. Its CPU consumption was under 20% while playing the 1080p H.264 video. Heck, they were even able to run World of Warcraft at a respectable 32FPS (with 1024×768 resolution).

Battery life ranges between 5-6 hours when used normally.

Asus 1201PN coming to France next month

Lucky folks in France will be the first ones to get their hands on the next-generation ION-powered netbooks. This includes the Asus 1201PN Eee PC that sports Atom N450 CPU and the famous ION-2 chip that would easily handle basic 3D games and HD videos with ease.

The Asus 1201PN will be available in France starting May 1st 2010 for 499 Euros.

Asus Eee 1201PN

Meet the next-generation Asus netbook – the Eee 1201PN that features full 1080p video playback via its HDMI port. It has a 12.1-inch LED display with 1366×768 resolution, 1GB, 160GB HDD and is powered by Intel Atom N450 processor that runs at 1.66GHz clock speed.

Battery capacity is 6-cells and we are expecting somewhere around 4.5 hours of runtime with GPU off and 2-3 hours with GPU activated.