Asus Eee PC 1000

ASUS, as usual, leads the competition among subnotebooks. Now ASUS has announced the next subnotebook of the Eee PC series, this is the fifth in this series (in addition to 700, 701, 900 and 901). And, as usual, ASUS leaps a head taller in the competition for portability and power.


ASUS Eee PC 1000 is equipped with a 10-inch display and a fairly comfortable keyboard, and all this pleasure will be sold at a price of only $ 699. In addition to a convenient keyboard and an extended display, this laptop has a 40 GB SSD drive (the largest among all subnotebooks) and Xandros Linux, which contains many more pre-installed applications that make it faster and more economical.

Unlike older versions of the Eee PC, the 1000 model has a more pleasant appearance - a shiny black surface with the Eee PC logo, there are also options for painting in silver gray and black with silver case. Unlike the 901 model, the 1000 has a pollution-resistant surface.

With its 10 inch screen, the Eee PC 1000 is the largest subnotebook available. Also, the Eee PC 1000 became a little heavier than its counterparts, it weighs ~ 1.1 kg.
In addition, a 1.3 megapixel webcam will come with this subnotebook.
The Eee PC is equipped with Dolby Surround stereo speakers. The sound has become deeper and stronger.

ASUS engineers have greatly improved the keyboard usability, although they have not fixed many of the shortcomings: the right shift is still located above the button to the right, so you can miss.
Unlike other Eee PCs, the Eee PC 1000 has a wider and more comfortable touchpad. According to ASUS, it supports multitouch technology, although it does not work out of the box.

Like the 901 and 1000H, the four buttons above the Eee PC 1000 keyboard perform various functions: the first turns off the monitor, the second changes the screen resolution, the third - the Super Hybrid Engine switches between different energy-saving modes, and the fourth - user-defined.
The buttons for switching resolution and power consumption modes are the most interesting:
- Resolution switches between: 800 x 600, 1024 x 600 (default), 1024 x 768 (makes the screen higher than the diagonal allows), and 1024 x 600 compresses the image so that everything fits on one screen.
- Power management mode allows you to quickly switch between power-saving mode (1.2-GHz), automatic power-saving (1.2-GHz, default), high-performance (1.6-GHz), and super-efficient (1.8-GHz). Unfortunately, no significant differences in performance were noticed, so you can stay on energy-saving.

ASUS wisely decided that there was nothing to fix in the user interface of Xandros, completely focusing on bundling applications to get a computer with what-what-needed.
The menu is divided into 6 parts: Internet, Work, Study, Games, Settings and Preferences. The package includes Pidgin, Skype, StarOffice, Thunderbird, Wikipedia and quick links to the most popular Web email services.
Also added to the Google Picasa package for organizing and uploading photos to the network, and the ASUS DVD player. Also included is a Chinese learning program;) New Eee Connect applications allow users to connect to another Eee PC remotely.

The 40 gigabyte solid-state drive of the Eee PC 1000 combines high speed and security (due to the absence of moving parts) with a much larger volume, in contrast to 10 gigabyte and 12 gigabyte in other models. It is divided into 2 parts of 20 gigabytes each. The system boot speed increased - 28 seconds, against 40 for the Eee PC 1000H, so Linux loads much faster than the Microsoft OS.

If someone lacks 40 Gb, ASUS, along with a laptop, provides 20 Gb of free space on YoStore. Link to YoStore is located under the Internet tab and requires registration under a name and password. After you register, YoStorage will be mounted as a separate partition. To connect to YoStore, just download their client and log in, there were no special problems connecting.

The 1.6 Ghz processor and 1 Gb RAM provide solid performance, pre-installed programs like StarOffice Writer open very quickly and there is no slowdown when making video calls on Skype, or listening to music through Slacker.

Eee PC 1000 provides a fairly strong level of connection, in the region of 80% within a 15 meter radius from the router, although we noticed a couple of dropped connections. Pages load quickly NYTimes.com loaded in just 2 seconds, and streaming video from YouTube and Hulu.com went with minimal delays and interruptions. Bluetooth is also available and allows you to communicate, for example, with the Eee PC 901.

Subnotebooks equipped with Atom processors allow you not to think about charging the battery. Eee PC 1000 with its 6-cell battery works with Wi-Fi on for 5 hours and 12 minutes, which is 44 minutes longer than 1000H, and almost the same as MSI Wind (5:13).

Features:
Processor: 1.6Ghz
RAM:1Gb installed + 1Gb upgrade option.
HDD: 40Gb SSD
Display size: 10 "
Screen resolution: 1024x600
Video card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
Video memory: Separated from RAM
Wi-Fi: 802.11 b / g / n
Bluetooth: 1.0
OS: Xandros
3 USB, Ethernet, headphone output, microphone and VGA input
Size: 27x19x4 cm.

This is a translation of an article from the site LAPTOPMAG.COM
Cross-post translation from my blog