The good: The Asus Eee PC 1215B gets a CPU upgrade, as well as excellent battery life and USB 3.0.
The bad: The long-standing Eee PC design is starting to look more than a little dated, and other comparable systems offer bigger or faster hard drives.
The bottom line: Asus updates the Eee PC line with AMD's excellent ultraportable CPU, making for a powerful, portable package, but the field is getting crowded in this category.
By ditching the long-in-the-tooth Intel Atom processor for the AMD E-350 Fusion platform, Asus graduates this 12.1-inch Eee PC from the flailing Netbook category to the more comfortable ultraportable one. At $449, which includes a USB 3.0 port, the Eee PC 1215B compared favorably with the 11.6-inch HP Pavilion dm1z, which looks nicer, but lacks USB 3.0 (but the HP also has a faster hard drive).
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