Well I’ve been using Chocolate Shake (the name of my new Asus Eee 1000h netbook) for an entire day now, so I’m ready to give some first impressions of this computer.
The Intel Atom processor is very zippy. It offers very good performance that should satisify anyone, unless you try and use it for serious gaming or graphics processing. I do neither, so this machine really has all the horsepower I need for my key work applications – Office 2003, Visio 2003, and Project 2007. Firefox 3 also works superbly on this machine.
Battery life seems excellent. I have yet to do a detailed battery discharge test, but it appears as though I’ll be getting around 5+ hours with WiFi on and LCD brightness at 50%. I’ve also noticed that the battery recharges quite quickly, in contrast to my Asus Eee 900 which takes forever to recharge.
The keyboard is superb, about as good as any I’ve used.
The screen is large, bright, clear, and pretty much glare-free.
The multi-touch trackpad actually works better than the one on the Asus Eee 900. The 1000h’s is very smooth, while the 900’s is kind of jerky and sometimes a little erratic when used for two-finger scrolling.
It’s HUGELY HUMONGOUS compared to the 900. You wouldn’t think that a screen size difference of 10 inches vs. 8.9 inches would make that much difference, but the 1000h seems like a beast compared to the little 900. I actually prefer the 900’s size. If the 900 would only come with its SSD configured better (blast that screwy 4GB C: drive!), I would happily use that machine as my work computer. I find both the screen and keyboard to be quite large enough, and the 900 Mhz processor to be suffciently powerful to run the applications I commonly use. I’ll definitly continue to use the 900 as my home netboook, while the 1000h is going to be my work machine.
August 27, 2008 at 9:03 pm |
Nice write-up. I’m still waiting to fondle an MSI Wind. Since they basically have the same guts, it sounds good.
August 28, 2008 at 7:35 am |
Can’t you use the 900 with sp2 and no updates?
August 28, 2008 at 8:19 am |
I hook my work machine into client networks so I MUST have every single Microsoft security update on it.
Michael
August 28, 2008 at 11:40 pm |
I see. Thank you.
August 29, 2008 at 7:47 am |
BTW – my son’s name for the 4 GB C: drive is “stupid computer”
August 30, 2008 at 8:33 pm |
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September 3, 2008 at 10:25 am |
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December 11, 2008 at 1:44 am |
I have seen in other blogs that ASUS has a Eee PC with 10 Inch Screen and 80 GB HDD for 460 USD. If the other blog is true…i think we have a winner…ATOM is a good enough processand with 1 GB RAM we wont have any issues to run XP and do the day 2 day office tasks like checking emails, browsing the internet and stuff like that…..good work ASUS….and good work friend….ur post if cool….