ASUS Eee PC 1215N Reviewed, Great Gaming Performance

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22 Jul, 2010 10:49 am

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1215n-review

While the ASUS Eee PC 1215N is still a month or two away (nothing official from ASUS yet apart from a now removed store listing that mentioned the end of August) Mike from Netbooklive has gotten a hold of the 12-inch ION 2 notebook, in both colors and reviewed them. Speaking of the colors, both are matte but still pick up fingerprints quite easily though the silver model hides them pretty well.

The 1215N should be the most powerful “netbook” around currently for playing games, given that this has a desktop based dual core Atom D525 (1.83GHz) processor and Nvidia ION 2 graphics – though I am not sure how it matches up to the recent dual core AMD offerings such as the Acer Aspire 1551 in general performance. Ultimately though, performance is still on the bottom end and you can expect to be turning down settings and the resolution on recent games.

Despite having Nvidia Optimus on board to preserve battery life, battery life is poor most likely due to said desktop based Atom D525 processor. Battey life ranged from 2.5 – 4.5 hours, or just under 6 hours with Wi-Fi OFF.

Hit up the 1215N review below for videos, photos, benchmarks and all that.

Via: Netbooklive


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  • James McButthole

    This netbook doesn't look quite the same as the one shown in an earlier video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sAfW8193Ws

    They are supposedly both the asus 1215n, but this one does not seem to have USB 3.0 on the right side. The keyboard layout is different on the right side as well (enter key should be long on a single row, not spread across two rows). Also I thought the 1215n was supposed to have a 1.3 megapixel webcam, and the review states its .3 megapixels

    Also it sucks that the mouse button is not split into two, why does Asus think that people want that?

    I'd also prefer a nonglossy display, but still this will probably be the netbook for me.

  • gman

    It's somewhat irresponsible for reviewers not to mention what country their netbook is from. In this instance, that strange upside down L shape enter key is the NON ENGLISH version of the 1215n. Most people think this is what they would be getting but in fact it's not the accurate model being reviewed. It should be mentioned by the reviewers. In the US you can only get the “english” version which does have the “normal” key layout which is the layout that most, if not all the consumers want. Most people are not aware that they are getting the non-english keyboard. It makes a huge difference in small netbooks. These non english versions cram extra key into an already small keyboard.

  • Peter

    Yeah I was confused about the location / availability situation. The keyboard appears to be a UK one and judging by previous dates of his reviews I am guessing Mike is based in the UK.

  • Peter

    Your post was answered on his site. His model was not the final (European) retail model and it was mentioned that the final version will have 3x USB 3.0. Can't confirm the camera spec myself.

  • gman

    It's somewhat irresponsible for reviewers not to mention what country their netbook is from. In this instance, that strange upside down L shape enter key is the NON ENGLISH version of the 1215n. Most people think this is what they would be getting but in fact it's not the accurate model being reviewed. It should be mentioned by the reviewers. In the US you can only get the “english” version which does have the “normal” key layout which is the layout that most, if not all the consumers want. Most people are not aware that they are getting the non-english keyboard. It makes a huge difference in small netbooks. These non english versions cram extra key into an already small keyboard.

  • Peter

    Yeah I was confused about the location / availability situation. The keyboard appears to be a UK one and judging by previous dates of his reviews I am guessing Mike is based in the UK.

  • Peter

    Your post was answered on his site. His model was not the final (European) retail model and it was mentioned that the final version will have 3x USB 3.0. Can't confirm the camera spec myself.

  • http://twitter.com/Chaddledee Charlie Tanner

    Actually, it’s the VERY English version of hte keyboard :P