"Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who.

I think I'm the only one to point that out so far, haha!

I have an EeePC 4G Surf with 1GB of RAM, nLited install of XP, 4GB SDHC, and I can watch HD videos.

I must warn you that Firefox has gotten bloated. Flash is bloated crap too. If you plan on watching videos, you have the space, so download it instead.

I use Google Chrome and I enjoy being able to have 30 tabs open compared to only having 3 tabs open on Firefox. And this is even with my celly overclocked to 1Ghz.

Oh yeah, I'm getting this one later on. Replace it with an SSD and some good RAM, and overclock it to oblivion. but only for when it's plugged in, unless it doesn't hurt battery life. I plan on getting a OCZ Vertex SSD. I can't help it. SSDs have made a huge impression to me!

Then I'm going to take this EeePC and push the overclock until I can overclock no more and just use it for simple stuff like my IRC bot.

Gotta love that battery life. Now where is my new chipset??

"Courageous man refuses to believe he has cancer"
Onion News Network (Video)

Gotta love the Onion.

A nice improvement on the netbook, but its still not "Worth" it for me. Gotta wait for a new chipset that doesn't guzzle power, although 7 hours isn't bad.

Of course for the average user netbooks are really starting to look good.

Anyone else wondering how worried Microsoft is about how prevalent netbooks are becoming? 300 dollar computers don't really give much room for a $100 version of Windows.

What no benchies?

Seriously I know it's not much of a boost but is would be interesting to see how this compared with previous atom and celeron netbooks.

The review seems somewhat empty without them.

And yes 945G and it's variants need to be taken out and shot.

The lack of ability to stream Hulu full-stream is pretty egregious.

Is there a way to disable HTT in bios? I'm curious to see how much that improves things *shrug*

Thanks for the write-up though. Very informative. Great pictures too.

The Eee PC 1000HE offers a great opportunity to dust off the games you haven't touched in a decade and remember a simpler time, before high-dynamic-range lighting and breast physics.

The physics that can never be explained... yes...

One thing is becoming apparent in netbooks. We REALLY need some competition on CPU/chipset. Every netbook is basically identical on the inside with the exception of SSD/HDD. Screen size is now pretty much 8.9 or 10". Keyboards have small differences but all about the same size. I have no idea how manufactures have managed to push out so many models of what is basically the same machine.

i really want a netbook, but I just can't bring myself to get an atom with the 945g

maybe when nvidia's ion platform becomes available, or AMD's netbooks start coming out i'll give it another look.

It's really too bad ASUS didn't couple the N280 with the GN40. The GN40 may not be as strong graphically as Ion, but any move away from the GMA 950 is a good one. Plus, it has 720p h.264 hardware acceleration, although admittedly netbooks don't have the screen resolution to really take advantage of it.

Excellent review!

How's the quality on the VGA output? Netbooks make a good mobile computing base, and I'd like to know how it performs when plugged in to a larger external monitor. I don't understand why netbooks don't come with DVI output. Does D-sub use less power or somethin'?

Disconnect man.... you don't need to step away from the always connected lifestyle before your looking up the route your waste will take while your on the pot.

Man, Acer needs to step things up a bit. That's 3 TR staffers that have turned to the Asus-side of the force.

Help them Perry Longinotti, you're our only hope.

Die 945GSE Die

Can't wait to see the battery performance for the next-gen netbooks with newer chipset and atom.