| A notebook they need has to have a great battery life | | | | reason to think it goes flat faster than what Asus |
| to run long enough to take notes through the day. | | | | says. |
| You, as a college student, know exactly what your | | | | 2. Asus 1005PE-H is the second of the three, and the |
| priorities are when looking for a computer. It has to be | | | | one with the longest battery life too. The manufacturer |
| ultra portable so you can put it in your bag, cheap so it | | | | claims 14 hours but with wireless networking reports |
| doesn't break the budget and last but not least | | | | say 12 hours is not out of sight at all. It will run out of |
| important factor that it should be fast enough so you | | | | steam long after classes. Other parts of it are |
| can get everything done without having to use another | | | | absolutely identical to those in the -M series, apart from |
| computer. It also has to be relatively small because | | | | the extra Bluetooth 2.1 controller may come handy if |
| dormitory rooms, especially when shared tend to run | | | | you want to connect it to your mobile phone for |
| low on available space. | | | | whatever reason. |
| 1. Asus 1005PE-M is the cheapest and simplest of all | | | | 3. Asus 1201N. 12" screen and 1366 by 768 resolution |
| three. If your budget is as tight as it gets, you can't | | | | gives you a lot of desktop area to put all the windows |
| have a better netbook than this for the price. The 10.1" | | | | to. A dual core 1.66GHz Atom processor takes care |
| screen gives a fairly good resolution of 1024 by 600, | | | | of quickly opening applications, and should you fancy a |
| which is optimal for viewing web sites. You will be able | | | | game at the end of the day, the Nvidia ION chip, which |
| to get word processing done, writing papers is not an | | | | is a 9300M will let you do that given you keep the |
| issue and other applications work fairly well on the | | | | quality settings in recent titles to the minimum. |
| 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor. | | | | Asus is a really strong contender in the netbook |
| Don't get carried away on performance hugging utilities | | | | category; they don't give any chance to others to get |
| though, the $300 price gets you only that much of the | | | | to the top three. With their selection of netbooks |
| horse power. The claimed 11 hours battery life is a | | | | everyone can have the one they like and they don't |
| great plus, however and without cranking the | | | | need to be ashamed when put up against normal |
| brightness all the way to the maximum there is no | | | | notebooks, either. |