Just-released Asus 10-inch EEE PC1000 Laptop is poor value

The brand new Asus EEE PC 1000 series is now officially available in UK with two models on sale at £349 and £369 respectively although we had some difficulties finding stock in Blighty.

But it will have a hard time replicating the success the original EEE PC laptop had when it was launched late last year.

This time around, MSI, Acer, HP and a host of other laptop manufacturers are queuing up to milk this popular laptop segment.

The EEE PC 1000 sports a 10-inch 1024x600 display and comes with an Intel Atom CPU with 1GB memory while offering a six-cell battery with a battery life of 7.5 hours when doing simple tasks with your wireless connectivity off.

The laptop is still equipped with a webcam and Asus has bundled a 20GB online storage.

The cheaper Windows-XP based version comes with a 80GB hard disk drive while the more expensive 40GB Flash SSD comes with a Linux OS instead.

Earlier EEE laptops had a smaller 8.9 inch screen and used the older Intel Celeron CPU.