Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/asus-eee-pc-1008p-seashell-review/
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 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 1008P 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's that lasts for eight hours on a charge? Follow on past the break for some answers.
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