Netbooks, while nice little computers, have become very boring. The main difference between most of them is screen size, shell design, and the company logo on the lid. Some may offer a choice between SSD and HDD or a 270 or 280 Intel Atom processor, but that’s about it. There’s finally something a bit different from Asus in the special Eee PC 1000HV.
What’s so special about this 1000HV? I has an actual mobile GPU built into it. Rather than using Intel’s integrated graphics chip, this netbook uses an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450. So maybe this one won’t choke when trying to show decent video. The graphics card has 256 MB of video memory, so watching video will no longer take up too much of the standard 1GB of RAM in the netbook.
While this is all great, there’s is one slight issue: this is an Italian netbook. It’s being sold on Computer Discount, and Italian online retailer. Asus has not announced any plans to bring it stateside. We can always hope.
The 1000HV seems almost like a stop gap measure. Most of us are waiting for NVIDIA’s upcoming netbook platform, which should offer better video since it’s from NVIDIA. There’s also the next generation of the Intel Atom, Vias, AMD’s offerings, and the upcoming ARM netbook platforms. This seems to be a nice diversion until we get some more variety in the space.
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This is the best but there is problem with ATI graphics Card since there is some problem in ATI Radeon, Since I have already this Card installed on my PC but Not working Properly. So..I like this but Due to ATI i will think about…About cheap and best.. pretty Good………..
This is the best but there is problem with ATI graphics Card since there is some problem in ATI Radeon, Since I have already this Card installed on my PC but Not working Properly. So..I like this but Due to ATI i will think about…About cheap and best.. pretty Good