 | ASUS Eee PC 1101HA-MU1X-BK 11.6-Inch Black Netbook - 11 Hour Battery Life Brand : Asus Model : 1101HA-MU1X-BK Overall Rating :  From : 8 Reviews Color : Black / Size : |
Technical Details
- Up to 11 Hours of Battery Life, Bluetooth, and Sleeve Case Included
- Intel Menlow Z520 Processor 1.3Ghz
- 1 Gb DDR2 RAM, 1 x SODIMM Slot, 2GB Max
- 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM) and 10GB Free Eee Storage
- Windows XP Home Operating System, 11.6-inch WXGA 1366 x 768 LED LCD Display
Product Description
Embrace mobile computing in style with the new family member ASUS Eee PC, 11-inch Eee PC 1101HA. With a battery life of 11 hours robust, the 1101HA eliminates the need to worry about food while traveling. Built-in wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi 802.11b / g and Bluetooth keep you connected wherever you go. 92% scale size of the keyboard and touchpad multi-touch makes it a breeze to type and navigate the content. A hard drive * 160 GB and 10 GB free online Eee storage provide plenty of storage and backup.
Customer Reviews (see all-reviews)
chosenatrandom ( Washington, DC United States ) My wife took this weekend ASUS younger when we urgently need a small laptop for work. Given its size, low cost, and what I read in the netbook, my expectations were very low, making the AP in 1101 a very pleasant surprise. The installation was very minimal and simple, and feels very solid and well built. Great place to write Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. I renewed drive 150 GB external hard drive on it without a hitch, including sorting and consolidation of 5000 images. I have had good experiences with a wide range of audio and video - Pandora and streaming live video on YouTube and watch clips of movie trailers in full screen. I was particularly surprised that he could listen to a live press conference to an external monitor, while I worked on e-mail on the LCD.
However, there are limitations to be aware of. Although significantly greater than 10 "netbook, the screen is still small and narrow when working on large documents or PDF files. And while the keyboard is comfortable, in general, the size and location of passage is narrow and somewhat ' "uncomfortable as well. When you have a wireless signal is strong - which is generally - benefits of the Internet is very good. However, the weak signal obtained in a few places in my house has a range of integrated wireless network card can be shorter than the old laptop I used.
The speakers are louder than I expected for a car of this size, but rather metallic. The sound through headphones or external speakers is very good.
Overall, it is an ideal solution for mobile computing. To me, that will replace a larger, faster laptop, but came very close to a fraction of the weight and cost.
However, there are limitations to be aware of. Although significantly greater than 10 "netbook, the screen is still small and narrow when working on large documents or PDF files. And while the keyboard is comfortable, in general, the size and location of passage is narrow and somewhat ' "uncomfortable as well. When you have a wireless signal is strong - which is generally - benefits of the Internet is very good. However, the weak signal obtained in a few places in my house has a range of integrated wireless network card can be shorter than the old laptop I used.
The speakers are louder than I expected for a car of this size, but rather metallic. The sound through headphones or external speakers is very good.
Overall, it is an ideal solution for mobile computing. To me, that will replace a larger, faster laptop, but came very close to a fraction of the weight and cost.
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Martin Stadtler ( Silver Spring, MD USA ) If you are looking for a netbook with a big screen, incredible battery life, solid build quality, I recommend the ASUS 1101HA. I have been with mine for a little over a month and so far I am very satisfied. I use both to surf the web when I came back on a football coach, and when they are traveling, as my main system. I travel very often, we are beyond the time when I go around the airport trying to find a way out. Then I put in a solid 8 days now and "forgets" to connect the power system. Not comparable to my ThinkPad X301, but that's another class $ 2K system (this is a netbook, not a laptop). The 1101HA has a function of overdrive, which, with the construction of extensions to the Atom HD really improve performance when you want to watch movies, or who have applied high intensity (the change of a more important).
If you have deployed, is a very good choice, I'd be very happy to have had the last time I was in the desert. This foam, just throw in the ruck and forget. Small enough to carry around, big enough to use.
Pros:
1. The screen is 11.6", not the standard run of the mill 10". More importantly it has a higher resolution than most netbooks out there at 1366 x 768.
2. Nice keyboard size for a netbook, feels well made, and allows me to type at speed.
3. Button to turn off the build in mouse-pad if your using a bluetooth (or any) mouse.
4. Bluetooth, definitely a positive, I have paired this to my earpiece to use with my softphone (or skype etc).
5. Great battery life.
6. Really nice build quality, looks great.
Cons:
Not much really, I never write reviews, it has to really be just that good to motivate me. The fingerprints left on the gloss finish don't bother me, especially since ASUS provided a special cloth designed for that. The only real grip I have is that there is not external access to the hard drive, if you want to put an SSD in this system, you have to crack this sucker open (not for the faint of heart).
If you are going to upgrade the memory to 2GB, you need to purchase specific versions or it will disable the over-clocking feature. The ASUS support sit lists the memory modules that are know to work.
Linux: If you don't use Linux, that's it, if you do read on..
I use Fedora, assuming that other distributions will have similar results. Fedora 11 is installed, you must add the yum repo plousbo for GMA500 that the will of Adam from Red Hat is driving. I bought the Fluendo codec has a specific version to support the atom using the hardware decoder. To manipulate the values of synchronization capabilities, is sufficient to echo / proc, google it ;-). Otherwise, just finished working, webcam, Bluetooth, etc.
If you have deployed, is a very good choice, I'd be very happy to have had the last time I was in the desert. This foam, just throw in the ruck and forget. Small enough to carry around, big enough to use.
Pros:
1. The screen is 11.6", not the standard run of the mill 10". More importantly it has a higher resolution than most netbooks out there at 1366 x 768.
2. Nice keyboard size for a netbook, feels well made, and allows me to type at speed.
3. Button to turn off the build in mouse-pad if your using a bluetooth (or any) mouse.
4. Bluetooth, definitely a positive, I have paired this to my earpiece to use with my softphone (or skype etc).
5. Great battery life.
6. Really nice build quality, looks great.
Cons:
Not much really, I never write reviews, it has to really be just that good to motivate me. The fingerprints left on the gloss finish don't bother me, especially since ASUS provided a special cloth designed for that. The only real grip I have is that there is not external access to the hard drive, if you want to put an SSD in this system, you have to crack this sucker open (not for the faint of heart).
If you are going to upgrade the memory to 2GB, you need to purchase specific versions or it will disable the over-clocking feature. The ASUS support sit lists the memory modules that are know to work.
Linux: If you don't use Linux, that's it, if you do read on..
I use Fedora, assuming that other distributions will have similar results. Fedora 11 is installed, you must add the yum repo plousbo for GMA500 that the will of Adam from Red Hat is driving. I bought the Fluendo codec has a specific version to support the atom using the hardware decoder. To manipulate the values of synchronization capabilities, is sufficient to echo / proc, google it ;-). Otherwise, just finished working, webcam, Bluetooth, etc.
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Pedro de P. Moniz I guess I was one of the first ones to buy this new 1101HA model. The battery is great, screen size as well, but it is tremendously SLOW.
I have another Asus, 14'', runing Ubuntu, with only 1gb RAM, and it is super fast -- it leaves all super machines running Windows way behind.
So I installed Easy Peasy (an Ubuntu version for netbooks) on this 1101HA. I thought it would considerably increase the speed -- just as it did on my other Asus. But it didn't. I was really disappointed. Now I'm reading reviews and see that i) upgrading to a 2gb RAM -- if it works -- will not make that much difference, and ii) actually the computer might not even recognize the new memory.
So, if the computer indeed does not recognize the new RAM, I'm really concerned first with Amazon, that suggests on the 1101HA model page to upgrade the RAM memory, and second with Asus, which does NOT mention anything on the manual. In the end, I do not know if I will be able to upgrade the RAM memory -- and if so how faster the computer will run.
Regardless of this possibility to upgrade -- or not -- the RAM memory, I find this new model very very slow -- to the point that one gets annoyed by waiting some 3 sec. for a window to open. I even guess if there might be any specific problem with this very CPU that I have -- this is just too slow! So I thought that Windows XP was the problem, once we know Windows consumes a lot of RAM. But even with Ubuntu EasyPeasy installed the Asus 1101HA remained very slow to my great surprise.
If the 30-day return policy was still up I'd have returned it.
Don't know what to do... Will try to call Asus to see what can be done.
I have another Asus, 14'', runing Ubuntu, with only 1gb RAM, and it is super fast -- it leaves all super machines running Windows way behind.
So I installed Easy Peasy (an Ubuntu version for netbooks) on this 1101HA. I thought it would considerably increase the speed -- just as it did on my other Asus. But it didn't. I was really disappointed. Now I'm reading reviews and see that i) upgrading to a 2gb RAM -- if it works -- will not make that much difference, and ii) actually the computer might not even recognize the new memory.
So, if the computer indeed does not recognize the new RAM, I'm really concerned first with Amazon, that suggests on the 1101HA model page to upgrade the RAM memory, and second with Asus, which does NOT mention anything on the manual. In the end, I do not know if I will be able to upgrade the RAM memory -- and if so how faster the computer will run.
Regardless of this possibility to upgrade -- or not -- the RAM memory, I find this new model very very slow -- to the point that one gets annoyed by waiting some 3 sec. for a window to open. I even guess if there might be any specific problem with this very CPU that I have -- this is just too slow! So I thought that Windows XP was the problem, once we know Windows consumes a lot of RAM. But even with Ubuntu EasyPeasy installed the Asus 1101HA remained very slow to my great surprise.
If the 30-day return policy was still up I'd have returned it.
Don't know what to do... Will try to call Asus to see what can be done.
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