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ASUS Eee PC 1000 XP

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Pros
Big, bright 10-inch screen
Great keyboard and mouse
Cons
It borders on ultraportable-sized

Performance: Very Good: 82
Features: Good: 70
Design: Very Good: 83

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	1331
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	1041
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	4:32:48 AM
Firefox 2	758
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	586
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	947
Multitasking	1502
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	734
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	614
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	612
WorldBench 6 Score	37
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

What You Should Know about the Eee PC 1000 XP

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.