The first Eee PC to break the 10-inch screen barrier, the 1101HA has a slightly larger footprint in order to accommodate the 11.6-inch, 1366x768 pixel screen. It has kept its thickness under check, and the overall machine is quite portable. Sharing the Seashell-branded appearance of the family, the cool-looking white model that we received reminded us of the older Macbooks.

The "HD" resolution display has a 16:9 aspect ratio; great for watching movies without those black borders. A short-length nop test video looked pretty good and ran quite smoothly. Although we felt that the screen brightness was not up to the mark. The display wasn't vibrant enough compared to some others in our test. But for typical work such as internet surfing and document editing, it's quite sufficient. The keyboard is well spaced and easy to type on. The touch-pad is similar to the 1005HA and 1008HA model. This model comes with a low power Atom Z520 processor running at 1.33 GHz. From the synthetic tests, it is clear that the 1101HA's performance is even lower than the low-scoring Zenith Z-book, but in real-life, we didn't notice a lag when running basic applications. But a two-hour long nop Hi-def movie file lagged a lot during playback. Even though Asus advertises its "HD" display so profusely, we consider that this machine is not suitable for watching HD videos.


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