Asus offers a wide range of mini laptops for many categories of users, and let’s see some details about Eee PC 1008P (Seashell Karim Rashid Collection). Brief information would sound like: chic-techno-elegant design by Karim Rashid, soft-to-the-touch finish for pleasing the sense of touching, an ultra slim product (only 1’’) and in the same time lightweight (1.12 kg), a mini laptop which brings you dual OS, and of course a good usability time( 6 hours unplugged, because of the ASUS Super Hybrid Engine).

That was the brief description of Eee PC 1008P. Let’s analyze a little bit this product. This mini laptop comes with Genuine Windows® 7 Starter,  Genuine Windows® 7 Home Basic and Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium. The display is a 10.1" one, it is a LED Backlight WSVGA Screen with a 1024x600 resolution. The Intel® Atom™ N450 and the DDR2 SO-DIMM 1GB memory will offer you a pretty good computing experience for a mini laptop.  Eee PC 1008P has WLAN 802.11b/g/n @2.4GHz possibilities and also BluetoothV2.1. Moreover, if you want EDR, you can get it too, because it is optional in the purchasing configuration.



If you decide to buy an Eee PC 1008P, you will have either a 250 GB or a 320 GB 2.5” SATA2 HDD 5400rpm hard disk, and you could also get the 500 GB Asus Web Storage (this is just the trial version of the online storage solution offered by Asus; after one year you will have to get one of the subscriptions they offer).

The camera has 1.3 Mp and the audio possibilities resume at Hi-Definition Audio CODEC, Digital Array Mic and Stereo Speakers. For input and output you have the following: one LAN RJ-45, two USB 2.0, a mini VGA connector, 2 Audio Jacks and an MMC/SD (SDHC) card reader.



This Asus laptop features eco friendly and slim Li-polymer battery, which offers you 6 hours of usability. At 262 mm x 180 mm x 26.2 mm (WxDxH), it comes as a good configuration for mini-laptop experience. It weighs only 2.53 lbs (1.145 kg) and you can easily find a laptop case, a sleeve or even a purse (for ladies of course) or a backpack to carry it wherever you need it.



This laptop is really efficient in the matter of energy, because it features the new CPU Intel Atom N450, which works very well with Asus’ SHE (Super Hybrid Engine technology). This technology will deliver you 6 hours of battery life with only one charge. Upgrading parts of the laptop or changing the battery are very simple to manage, because the design was done in such a manner to allow these operations to be done easily. The battery can be charged more than one thousand times and this is pretty good (three times more than normal mini laptop batteries). This product exposes in a very good manner Asus’ care for Earth and they managed very well to create an eco-friendly product.



This Asus mini laptop offers you almost instant Internet access, thanks to the Express Gate operating system which boots up in a few seconds. This brings you a wide range of activities like Skype calling, surfing the web, online gaming, instant messaging and browsing photos online. All of these brought to you just by Express Gate!



Karim Rashid, the designer of this model is the most prolific designers of his certain generation. He owns 3000 designs, he received 300 awards and he is working in more than 35 countries. He designed the famous Garbo waste can and the Umbra Oh Chair. He also collaborated with his clients and he created design in a democratic style for Method and Dirt Devil. There are Artemide and Magis furniture pieces created by himself and Citibank and Hyundai brand identity also belong to him. Karim’s work is currently featured in 20 permanent collections and he exhibits his pieces in worldwide galleries. He won in several years the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award, the Red Dot award, IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Award and I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review.



Eee PC 1008P netbooks come with Eee Docking (only those which run Windows based OS). This is a software suite which offers you access to digital content easily, and also allows you to use services and useful software. This suite comprises Asus @Vibe (streaming or downloading lots of types of digital content), Eee Xperience ( several applications which enhance the visual and the acoustic experiences on your mini laptop), Eee Tools (a suite of tools; among them Font Resizer and Live Update) and Eee Sharing which offers you the great possibility to share messages with other Eee PC owners, and even with other notebooks or desktop PCs( all these without needing an Internet connection).


All in all, this mini Asus laptop is a great one, which offers in the same time an exquisite design and very good computing performance. This laptop comes in Glossy Hot Pink and Matte Coffee Brown and it fits very well to more types of customers. Enjoy your Asus mini experience!