ASUS Eee PC 1215N Reviewed Ahead Of Launch

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18 Aug, 2010 12:49 pm

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Update: Reader Jukke has confirmed that the Eee PC 1215N is already selling in Sweden, minus USB 3.0 and a chargeable USB port.

Only a few more weeks before the ASUS Eee PC 1215N goes on sale. The official date is the start of September. There are preorders up in various countries and it may even already be on sale in a few European countries (not confirmed).

Notebook TV in Hungary have already gotten their hands on the 12-inch netbook and reviewed it.

Overall not much to be surprised about. Battery life ranges from 2 – 6 hours with the 6-cell 5,200 mAh battery. The more gaming and video you do the less you’ll squeeze out. Various benchmark scores are up – Windows 7 WEI gives a score of 3.3. 3DMark06 gives a score of 2715. PCMark05 gives 2348. World of Warcraft at native resolution gives 35 – 51 FPS. Games that are a couple of years old fare quite decently with low-ish details.

The ASUS Eee PC 1215N has a 12.1″ 1366 x 768 display, Intel Atom D525 processor (dual core, 1.8 GHz), Nvidia ION 2 graphics, Nvidia Optimus, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB HDD, 0.3MP webcam, Bluetooth 3.0, Gigabit LAN, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, HDMI out and Windows 7 Home Premium.

Source: Notebook TV via nDevil


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  • Jukke

    I can confirm that it has been out in Sweden for some weeks now, I got mine last Friday.
    The version sold in Europe doesn’t have usb 3.0 and the usb charge+ function.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1130186100 Benny Sabghir

    What is the price? In US dollars, roughly.

  • http://twitter.com/TheMockSun Lonnie McAfee

    Laaaame! The one in the pics appears to have a matte display. Please let this be the case…?

  • Peter

    It’ll likely be $499 RRP in the US. ExcaliberPC is the only store in the US that I’m aware of that has listings up.

    http://www.excaliberpc.com/products/products.html?ch=&search=1215n

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the confirmation Jukke! Does it have a matte display over there?

  • Anonymous

    I am curious about this too. The model that I did a hands on with at Computex 2010 a couple of months ago had a glossy display.

  • Jimmyjimmy

    looks good & is the fastest Atom netbook on the planet (even when the N-500 series launches) but for just a $100 more there are several i3 choices out there that are smaller, lighter & faster.

  • Dreadwock

    Since yesterday it’s also aviable in Poland for 1999 PLN which is about 500 €.
    http://www.x-kom.pl/p/57282-netbook-12,1-asus-eee-pc-1215n-d525-2048-250-7hp.html

  • Jimmy2

    since this is using the nettop Atom, is it using the ION8 (10″) or ION16 (12″)?

    only thing that worries me about this line is ION & Optimus. alot of netbook fans might not know but those of us familiar with other form factors know that Nvidia has such a LOUSY reputation for drivers & updates/support, they are a company thats is failing fast.

  • Anonymous

    As far as I know the 8-core IONs were planned for 10-inch netbooks only.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, spending more money will get you something more powerful and faster.. there’s no denying that :)

  • Mike

    It’s the 16-cores version

  • Mike

    I’ve seen no info on a matte display on this one. The version i tested had a glossy one and I’m pretty sure it will be glossy all around the world

  • Jukke

    It has a glossy display.

  • Jukke

    I think so too, mine says that is has 16 cuda core so.

  • Jukke

    There is alreday a moded inf out there for the latest 258.96 nvidia driver too work with ION2.

  • Tinac

    sounds pretty good, nettop Atom & ION16 means it should easily top the 10″ N5xx/ION8 netbooks coming later this year. its still a tough choice though as the i3 will destroy any Atom but the ION should be able to slightly top i3 integrated GFX.

    i3/i5-ULV/gpu = 18w
    D525 (13w) & ION16 (13w) = 26w
    N5xx (10w) & ION8 (6w) = 16w

    logic tells me to pay a little more & go i3 but i really want to support Atom netbooks.

  • Dilko

    this is definitely the king of all netbooks for now, even when the “true” 10″ Atom/ION netbooks come out. any chance the US will be getting that awesome silver version? i already have a black seashell & want something a little different!

    also, will Sacha, Chippy, or JKK be getting 1 in for review? i’d be very interested in their speed, heat, fan noise, battery life impressions…

  • http://www.mijatovic.com/ Milan

    I can’t wait for this to come out.

  • Guest

    Do people actually like gloss displays? Why does everything have to be shiny? Is this what we’ve become as a society?

  • TotallyRad

    any word if Sasha or Chippy will be doing a review?

    i am at least hoping Engadget does.

  • Toki

    remember guys, since these are nettop parts then it DOESNT speedstep. which means that DC Atom will be running at full speed constantly. the only time it will conserve power is when on Intel gfx instead of ION. the nettop Atom doesnt support idle states either.

    essentially your looking at a CPU package alone that will never drop below 13w, thats not even counting other parts of the PC. i can only imagine what that will do to heat/fan noise & battery life.

    right now i have a much more powerful i5-ULV & the entire machine will drop to 7-8w when not in use.

    youre really far better off waiting for the specific netbook N-5xx series & ION-8.

  • Anonymous

    I noticed they just bumped the price to 549. Weird, since there are no other retailers in the U.S. at this point.

  • http://www.netbooknews.com Sascha Pallenberg

    we have one already and i will do another video review of it

  • eeepcuser

    I bought one of these yesterday from a Hong Kong Computer Festival at Wan Chai Convention centre. The ASUS booth had all the newest netbooks such as 1018N, 1215N, 1015PED etc. 1215N was only 3999 HKD and that’s like 335 ish GBP / 480 dollars. (Currency translation is not accurated) The device is very nice.

  • acey

    It’s fully released in HK!??? where to buy?????? Is the Convention still there?