February 17, 2012
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Asus EEE PC 1225C Reviews , Bigger Atom
Powered Netbook
E
ven back in the days when netbooks where Anyway, let’s see what we’re dealing with here. The
the next hot piece of technology, there was a 1225C is an 11.6 inch budget ultra-portable, part of
lot of debate whether bigger than 10 inch mini the new Asus EEE PC Flare line. It looks identical to
laptops are actually called netbooks or not. Back the 1225B I tested before, with some exceptions: the
them I decided to call 11.6+ inch devices budget ul- test unit I got comes in Black and offers a glossy finish
tra-portables, and with that in mind, today we’re for the lid cover. A plastic glossy finish, the kind that
going to talk about such a computer: the Asus EEE catches fingerprints and smudges like crazy. On a
PC 1225C. first look though, the plastic feels like it’s somewhat
treated against scratches, it feels more metallic than
the plastic on the old Asus EEE PCs used to feel (like
on the 1215N, if you remember that one), but this
might be just a mirage.
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This is a close relative to the EEE PC 1225B we tested
a couple of weeks ago, but while that one came with The Asus EEE PC 1225C is a bigger Atom powered
AMD hardware, this one is built on Intel’s CedarTrail netbook
Atom. It’s in fact the same platform you’ll find on
smaller 10 inch netbooks these days, that’s why we The bottom is covered in that textured plastic we
could say the 1025C is a “bigger netbook”. knew from the Asus 12xx series before and the sides
come with chromed edges, a trademark of the EEE
In this post we’re going to take just a quick look at PC Flare line.
the laptop, as I unbox it and share some of my first
impressions on it. Of course, since this laptop is not Opening the lid, you get the black metal interior, a
yet available in stores, we’re dealing with a pre- full-size keyboard and a glossy screen. My unit get’s
production sample, thus some of the final features the US keyboard layout, with the bigger left SHIFT,
might be slightly different. And, knowing Asus, they but you still get that extra column of keys in the right,
will offer different configurations based on your which I for one resent. The trackpad is not the one
country, so the 1225C you might find at your local I saw on the 1225B, but an over sized version of the
Best Buy (or whatever) might not be 100% identical trackpad present on the 1025C/1025CE Flare lines:
to the one here. that means that it has a physical click button, but
we’ll have to wait and see how good the touchpad
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Asus EEE PC 1225C Reviews , Bigger Atom Powered Netbook
and the button are during everyday use. I’ll let you
know in my review.
Inside, this test unit of mine comes with an Intel
Atom N2600 processor, 2 GB of RAM, 320 GB HDD and
Windows 7 Home Premium, but to be frank, I’m sur-
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prised Asus din not squeeze at least a faster N2800
processor in there. I mean, they put the N2600 on
their cheapest netbook, the X101CH, they could have
put something better here as I’m pretty sure this one
is not going to cut it, performance wise.
All in all, I knew the 1025C was going to be an un-
derpowered mini laptop and I don’t dig the glossy
hood and display. However, I was actually expec-
ting it to be cheap, but based on what I know right
now, I was wrong. The 1225C is expected to land in
my country by late March and it’s only going to be
about $30 cheaper than the 1225B (the equivalent
of $30 here). That would lead to a price tag of $400
-$420 when it reaches the States, and while having
that Atom platform inside will ensure long battery
life (once again, we’ll see if this proves true or not),
I doubt many will turn towards this unit, when for
only a bit of extra cash you can get the faster, matte
and overall better unit, the Asus 1225B.
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