Asus has finally begun shipping the Eee PC Netbook 1004DN that it first showed at CES in January. The catch is that this Netbook is not yet outside of Taiwan. If you are in Taiwan, you can use them for the equivalent of about $ 608 PC from Home.

There are a few things that this Netbook apart from the crowd. Firstly, it is a CD DVD burner. The Eee PC 1004DN has a fingerprint scanner and a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 CPU and Intel chipset GN40 with X4500M graphics.

The Netbook also has a 10.2 inch, 1024 x 600 pixels display, 1 GB RAM, WLAN 802.11b g n, Bluetooth 2.1, and an ExpressCard 34 slot. It has a 6-cell battery and weighs approximately 3.2 kg.

InsideHW has a detailed review of the Netbook. They were impressed with the computer build quality and ergonomics. Despite the CD DVD drive and GN40 chipset, but also noted that the computer battery is 6 cells a significant (though not spectacular) 5.5 hours running time. the computer was with 720p HD video playback with ease, and 1080p playback after a few settings.

On the other side of the computer packs weak 4200rpm hard drive.