14 DAY TRIAL // Intel Cedar Trail powered netbooks are starting to become available in retail, one of the first such models to reach Europe being the Asus Eee PC R052CE, which has just been listed by Amazon.de.
The Asus netbook is available in 11 different colors, including the red and blue models pictured in this article, with prices starting at 339 EUR (roughly $445 US).
For this amount of money users will get a laptop that features pretty much the usual netbook specifications.
What this means is that the Eee PC R052CE comes fitted with a wimpy 1GB of system memory and a 5,400RPM hard drive delivering 320GB of storage space.
Just as the rest of its hardware configuration, the 10.1-inch LED backlit display used by the Eee PC R052CE also fails to impress since it sports a low-res 1024x600 pixel panel.
Moving to the connectivity front, we get the usual multi-card reader, Wireless N WiFi and USB 2.0 ports, but also an HDMI output.
The rest of the specs list is completed by a 0.3MP webcam and a 3-cell Li-Ion battery that Asus says is able to provide users with up to 6 hours of autonomy.
Those of you requiring even more running time can configure Asus’ netbook with a 6-cell battery that increases autonomy to a more than impressive 12 hours, but has the downside of making the R052CE thicker.
As always, on the GPU side, Asus went with the stock Intel Atom N2800 integrated graphics, which in Cedar Trail CPUs has received a new series of hardware decoding capabilities for a wide range of HD video formats , including MPEG2, VC1, AVC, H.264 and Blu-ray 2.0.
Right now, the Eee PC R052CE is out of stock on Amazon.de, but we expect shipments to begin in the coming weeks.
