Asus Eee PC 1101HA Seashell review (black)

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Asus Eee PC 1101HA
Off (watts)	0.35
Sleep (watts)	0.76
Idle (watts)	5.89
Load (watts)	9.17
Raw (annual kWh)	19.42
Annual operating cost (@$0.1135/kWh)	$2.20

Asus has always had some of the longest-lived Netbooks, and the 1101HA ran for an astonishing 8 hours and 50 minutes in our video playback battery drain test (with the CPU running at its standard speed). That's great for all-day computing and gives you plenty of headroom for running the overclocking software, watching videos, or other high-power tasks.

Asus covers its laptops with a standard one-year parts-and-labor warranty, and it offers online Web-based help and a toll-free phone number. The company's support Web site includes easy-to-find driver downloads and FAQs.

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System configurations:

Asus Eee PC 1101HA
Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; 256MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 500; 160GB Hitachi 5,400rpm

Acer Aspire One AO751h-1545
Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; 64MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 500; 160GB Seagate 5,400rpm

HP Mini 5101
Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz; 224MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 950; 160GB Seagate 7,200rpm

Dell Inspiron Mini 10
Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz; 256MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 950; 160GB Western Digital 5,400rpm

Lenovo Ideapad S10-2
Windows XP Home Edition SP3; 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; 128MB (Shared) Mobile Intel GMA 950; 160GB Western Digital 5,400rpm