ASUS Eee PC 1015PN netbook Unboxed

ASUS Eee PC 1015PN netbook Unboxed - The Asus Eee PC 1015PN is one of the first 10 inch netbooks to feature second generation NVIDIA ION graphics. While the version of the ION chip used in 10 inch notebooks isn’t quite as powerful as the chip used nettops and larger notebooks it does provide more than enough graphics processing power to handle 720p and 1080p HD video playback. The Eee PC 1015PN isn’t available in the US yet, but the folks at Eee PC.it have managed to snag an Italian model. You can check out the site’s unboxing and first impressions post.

Lack of Nvidia Optimus with Windows 7 Starter has been confirmed here, so a manual reboot is in order to switch to ION graphics and vise versa or you can shell out more for a higher end Windows version to activate it. Looking at the photos, I’ll confirm that this is a 1024 x 600 display like the one selling over at ExcaliberPC. First impressions – the netbook seems more responsive than typical single core powered netbooks and the bottom gets pretty warm with ION switched on. I still hope there is a HD display, Windows 7 Home Premium model in the works.

The computer also comes with a 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core processor and 1GB of memory. Eee PC.it does note that the bottom of the netbook gets a bit warmer than other netbooks when running with the ION graphics enabled, but that’s hardly surprising.


via pancawara.com