Get a battery life: Mobile computers these days suffer from a lack of mobility thanks to combining huge power consumption habits with little way to satisfy this demand. Asus is trying to redress the shortcoming in netbooks with a newly released model in its Seashell series of thin and light mobiles, the 1101HA. Marshalling a trio of tricks, namely the Asus Super Hybrid Engine (SHE), LED-backlit display and Z-series Intel Atom processor, the computer maker has claimed an extraordinary battery life of 11 hours. Real life performances rarely match the claims of companies on battery life, but even if the pair fall a few hours short of the specs, they still leave their rivals looking flat.
Apart from the frugal power consumption, the Asus model also stands out for having an unusually large screen, spanning 11.6 inches with a resolution of 1366×768. The keyboard is also roomy by netbook standards, offering 92 percent of a full-size laptop. The rest of the figures are straight out of the netbook formula, with 1 gigabyte of memory, a 160-gigabyte hard disk, wireless, Bluetooth, a memory card reader and Windows XP as the operating system. Tipping the scales at 1.38 kg it is on the hefty side of netbooks, but considering the screen real estate, the weight is justified. It measures 286×196×21.8 mm.
Asus sweetens the deal with an offering of 10 gigabytes of online Eee Storage.