Digital Home Thoughts: ASUS Eee PC 1201N

"The rundown of the 1201N is that it provides good battery life, great multimedia aspects, adequate overall system performance, and borderline gaming. It does this in a package that's slightly larger than your typical netbook, but it's comparable to the 11.6" offerings. The larger size makes for a more comfortable keyboard, at least in my experience; those with less beefy hands might be fine with 10.1" and smaller netbooks. The 1201N keyboard also has a better feel compared to the 1005PE I tested, where the keys felt loose."

The line keeps bluring between what is a notebook and what is a netbook. Larger chassis and screen, plus dual core processors eliminate some of the criteria that have traditionally been used to differentiate between the two. Case in point, if you added an optical drive to the 1201N, it would pretty much be a low to mid-range notebook.