ASUS Eee PC 1001HA makes its apperance at the Global site

ASUS has now officially launched the EEE 1001HA. It carries the Seashell tag just like ASUS EEE 1008HA and ASUS EEE 1005HA. It carries an obsolete CPU: Atom N270 which was used by the netbooks of yesteryear.

Specifications:

• 10.1-inch 1024×600 display
• 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU
• 1GB of RAM
• 160GB HDD
• Wi-Fi 802.1 b/g/n
• 0.3MP webcam
• 3 USB ports
• Windows XP or Linux OS

(why no Windows 7?)

• 3-cell battery

Ouch! A 3-cell battery in the era of netbooks where each netbooks sports 6-7 hours of battery life? Stupid move, ASUS

There is no information regarding its availability or its exact price, but we expect it to low due to its shabby specs ($320-$350)

[EEE 1001HA official webpage]

Microsoft to use a new term for Netbooks – Low Cost Small Notebook PC

Microsoft is planning to change the term used to define netbooks as “Low Cost Small Notebook PC”. Steven Guggenheimer who is the general manager of the Application Platform & Development Marketing Division at Microsoft pointed out that since some of the ‘netbooks’ do much more than what the original netbooks used to do, they are going to change the term for it.

Comments: This would be a stupid move by Microsoft as most of the people recognize these small computers as Netbooks. Changing it with such a long term would only confuse the common man.