The Asus 1215T is yet other netbook with 12.1 inch screen but features 1.7Ghz Neo processor and Ati Hd 4250 graphics card. In these tests, the Gpu is fully capable of rendering 1080p Hd video playback.
It has a black piano close around the 12-inch bezel that attracts a lot of fingerprints, but since this is not a touchscreen device, you would not be touching those areas a lot. I loved its two tone black-on-silver close but was disappointed to see median built quality. Just don't expect Apple-like built potential here. Its screen bezel also has a 1.3 mega pixel webcam with a slider cover to safe it from dust.
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Coming to its keyboard, leading keys like enter key are smaller in size compared to Asus Eee Pc 1201T - its predecessor. I had no problems using its touchpad, but the singular bar below the touchpad requires a firm press in order to register a 'click'.
Performance wise, it is much good than most of the singular core Atom notebooks out there with Gma 3150 graphics. It comes with an Amd Neo Ii K125 processor and Ati Radeon Hd 4250 Hd graphics which are really good than the Atom and Gma 3150 combo. It also comes with 320Gb Hdd, 2Gb Ram, Vga port and 3 Usb ports along with an Hdmi port. My netbook came preloaded with ExpressGate - a quick boot Linux Os. Fortunately, Asus has made Windows 7 drivers available on their website. I installed the basic version of Windows 7 and did not contact any problems.
Now, here is a downside of having too much power in a netbook - poor battery life. It delivered 3.5 hours in my YouTube video test and in normal web surfying it gave me around 4.5 hours. This is okay for me, but may not be sufficient for the netbook-ers that are used to 10 plus hours of runtime. Asus Eee Pc 1215T is priced at 400 dollars, which is around 50-60 dollar costly than the Atom powered 10-inch netbooks. Even though its built potential is not exceptional, it really has more power than the 10-inchers.
Asus 1215T enumerate
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