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February 5th, 2010, 14:50
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What do you do if your netbooks are starting to look so last season? Well if you're ASUS, you hire a leading industrial designer like Karim Rashid to revamp it, of course. The Eee PC 1008P's (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/asus-gets-official-with-eee-pc-1008p-seashell-available-in-hot/) snazzy new design and removable battery certainly caught our eye at CES, but now so is its $499 pricetag. Positioned as a designer netbook, the 1005P is a mixed bag of specs -- it has got the now-typical Intel Atom N450 processor, boasts 2GB of RAM and larger 320GB hard drive, as well as a disappointingly small three-cell battery. So, are the 1008P's slimmer body and eye-catching design enough to make you shell out $100 more than the typical netbook? And how does the the smaller capacity battery compare to the $380 Eee PC 1005PE (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/asus-eee-pc-1005pe-review/)'s that lasts for eight hours on a charge? Follow on past the break for some answers.
Gallery: ASUS Eee PC 1008P hands-on impressions (http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-pc-1008p-hands-on-impressions/)
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What do you do if your netbooks are starting to look so last season? Well if you're ASUS, you hire a leading industrial designer like Karim Rashid to revamp it, of course. The Eee PC 1008P's (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/asus-gets-official-with-eee-pc-1008p-seashell-available-in-hot/) snazzy new design and removable battery certainly caught our eye at CES, but now so is its $499 pricetag. Positioned as a designer netbook, the 1005P is a mixed bag of specs -- it has got the now-typical Intel Atom N450 processor, boasts 2GB of RAM and larger 320GB hard drive, as well as a disappointingly small three-cell battery. So, are the 1008P's slimmer body and eye-catching design enough to make you shell out $100 more than the typical netbook? And how does the the smaller capacity battery compare to the $380 Eee PC 1005PE (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/asus-eee-pc-1005pe-review/)'s that lasts for eight hours on a charge? Follow on past the break for some answers.
Gallery: ASUS Eee PC 1008P hands-on impressions (http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-pc-1008p-hands-on-impressions/)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/asuseeepc1008p01_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-pc-1008p-hands-on-impressions/2678584/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/asuseeepc1008p02_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-pc-1008p-hands-on-impressions/2678585/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/asuseeepc1008p03_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-pc-1008p-hands-on-impressions/2678586/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/asuseeepc1008p04_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-pc-1008p-hands-on-impressions/2678587/)http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/02/asuseeepc1008p05_thumbnail.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/photos/asus-eee-pc-1008p-hands-on-impressions/2678588/)
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