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We have collected 3 reviews of the Asus Eee PC 1101HA. Experts rate Asus Eee PC 1101HA 7.3/10. Reviewsor.com helps you find reviews, best prices, user reviews of the Asus Eee PC 1101HA and Asus Netbooks.
The Eee PC 1101HA is available in two colours, black and white. This netbook has a good deal of class, with a totally glossy finish, except on the keyboard and the underside. This approach undeniably gives it an elegant look (provided you like glossy finishes), but it's also its major defect. Reflections are all too visible and greasy fingerprints are inevitable after a few minutes of use. The result is that you tend to spend a lot of time wiping it down, before finally giving up and living with it, fingerprints and all. The is wide, with big, smooth, flat keys measuring 17 x 16 mm. Typing is comfortable, despite a certain firmness to the touch. The additional functions are clearly visible, identified by a blue logo.? The blends into the rest of the shell, standing out only because of the little bumps embossed into its surface. This gives it a somewhat unaccustomed feel, but gliding is fast and precise nonetheless. The click bar is chromed and set just below the touchpad. The quality is good, but clicking is a bit noisy. The image produced by the is just adequate. The colours are a little too warm, and overexposed areas tend to burn. The image lacks fluidity. The Asus Eee PC 1101HA is a.
Asus is perhaps best known for virtually creating the Netbook phenomenon with its line of inexpensive Eee PCs. The company has subsequently done a good job of refining and expanding on the Netbook experience, with systems such as the slim Eee PC 1005HA and the touch-screen Eee PC T91. The latest move is to add an 11.6-inch display, which, while not currently a threat to popular 10-inch models, still shows a lot of promise for Netbooks becoming ever more useful to mainstream laptop users. Asus' take on an 11.6-inch Netbook retains the slim, attractive styling of the 10-inch 1005HA, and wisely upgrades the screen to a higher-resolution 1,366x768 model. Like the first 11-inch Netbook we checked out, the Acer Aspire One 751h, it uses the Z520 version of Intel's Atom processor, instead of the more common (and faster) N270 and N280 CPUs. In the Acer version, that made the system feel just sluggish enough that we were occasionally tempted to throw it out of a window. In a concession to reality, Asus allows for some overclocking of the CPU (up to 30 percent via the system's BIOS), which brings the performance up to standard Netbook levels.
Now that 10-inch netbooks are de rigeur, PC makers are looking to bridge the gap, at least physically, between these secondary PCs and full-size notebooks, and the most obvious way to do that is by increasing the screen size to 11 or 12 inches. Somewhat surprisingly, ASUS is late to this game, having been beaten by Acer, Dell, Lenovo, and Samsung. However, that doesn’t mean the $429 Eee PC 1101HA should be dismissed. On the contrary, this 11.6-inch netbook has much that we like about recent ASUS netbooks—including superb battery life and a stylish design—but its performance could be better. The largest member of ASUS’ Seashell family, the Eee PC 1101HA is an up-sized version of the 1005HA. Though less svelte than the inch-thick 1008HA, the 1101HA has similar curved panels and a sharp look. Gone, however, is the uniform body of the 1008HA; no plastic covers the edges or hides the ports. Its glossy lid, only available in black, is covered in a scratch-resistant Infusion Finish, which is far from fingerprint resistant, so you’ll want to keep a cloth handy. At 11.3 x 7.6 inches, the 1101HA is roughly an inch narrower than the Lenovo IdeaPad S12, and has nearly the same footprint as the Acer Aspire One 751h.