Full review of Asus Eee PC 1000HE

Asus started the netbook craze with its tiny, 7-inch Eee PC. Shortly thereafter, every notebook manufacturer except Apple laptop battery produced at least one tiny and inexpensive laptop just like it. Nowadays, netbooks are not that tiny anymore – little by little they have increased in size from 7″ via 9″ and now the standard screen size of a netbook is 10 inches. Even a couple of 12-inch models have been released.

Hardware

What they all have in common is the hardware – with a few deviations it consists of an Intel Atom CPU at 1.6GHz, 1GB or RAM, a 160GB hard drive and integrated GMA950 graphics, Laptop battery. The Eee PC, however, has been upgraded with an ever so slightly faster 1.66GHz Atom processor and a higher 667MHz FSB speed instead of earlier models which had 533MHz.

The speed increase is not big enough to be noticeable, but you might feel better purchasing an upgraded model. Asus’ main selling point with the 1000HE is the Discount laptop battery life. According to the manufacturer, you should be able to keep it alive for 9.5 hours without resorting to an outlet. To achieve this formidable Laptop battery life, you need to use aggressive power-saving schemes, no Wi-Fi and turn the brightness all the way down. In our general usage test it still delivered more than 7 hours, which is still more than acceptable.

Design

As far as the design goes, the Eee PC 1000 HE stays with the concept we’ve seen in previous Eee netbooks as Latitude D610 battery. The keyboard is almost full size (92%) and the trackpad buttons are slightly tilted in the front. The entire casing of the netbook is glossy, which enhances the overall look but also attracts fingerprints easily.

On the whole, the design of the 1000HE focuses on usability; it’s not spectacularly thin like some of its siblings, such as Asus S101 netbook, but it certainly gets the job done with flying colors. Besides, keeping the design simple also helps keep the price to a minimum, which is often the deciding factor for a netbook buyer.

Connectivity and Features

The ports have been placed on the left- and right-hand sides of the laptop – none at the back of Dell inspiron 9400 battery. On the right is a memory card reader, 2 USB and VGA and on the left is another USB port, Ethernet, and audio line in/out.

Summary

While there are better looking netbooks on the market, the Eee PC 1000HE comes at a very attractive price point and offers excellent battery life. It’s also very easy to use thanks to the large keyboard, and has all the features that the competition offer plus a little extra. Combine these aspects and you have one of the best netbooks compare to Latitude D620 battery currently available.

Of course, there are some tradeoffs that come with mini-laptops‘ bargain basement prices.

“You’re not going get a super-powerful processor in there, and usually you’re limited on storage space,” says Ian Bell, editor in chief of Digital Trends, a consumer-technology analysis site NP-BG1 fit NP-FG1.

In addition, most subnotebooks lack CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives so you won’t be able to play movies on your computer.

Mini-laptops trace their roots back to the One Laptop Per Child project, a program started by an MIT professor with the goal of providing every child in the developing world with a $100 laptop.KODAK KLIC-5001 Computer manufacturing companies soon took advantage of the commercial opportunity these tiny laptops created. With the 2007 release of the Asus Eee, a surprise hit for Taiwan’s Asustek, mini-laptops got their jumpstart.

The Eee is so popular, “now everyone is trying to copy them,” says Dan Ackerman, senior editor at CNET.com and Ecsem.net.

A slew of Taiwanese vendors unveiled models at June’s Computer expo, but rival products from big brands like Dell are on the way, too. Many use Intel’s power-efficient Atom CPU along with solid-state disk (SSD) drives, for better battery life, boot times, and shock resistance.

1. Asus Eee PC 4G XP

Overview: The popular low-cost Asus Eee PC makes a play for mainstream acceptance, adding Windows XP to create an impressive package for portable Web surfing and basic productivity, making it a near-flawless choice for a highly portable second laptop.

Specs:

- OS: Windows XP canon BP-511

- Processor: 900MHz Intel Celeron M ULV

- RAM installed: 512 MB DDR II SDRAM

- Screen size: 7″

- Weight: 2 lbs.

Price: $399

2. Acer Aspire One

Overview: The Aspire one has the potential to be a very solid mini-notebook at an incredibly competitive price. At $379, this system is cheaper than the Eee PC 4G XP, while offering a powerful Atom processor and a 1024×600 resolution screen.

Specs:

- OS: Linux

- Processor: 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270

- RAM installed: 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM

- Screen size: 8.9″

- Weight: 2.2 lbs.

Price: $379

3. Everex Cloudbook CE1200V

Overview: If you’re the type of user that loves a challenge and doesn’t mind tweaking Linux applications, the CloudBook is worth a look. However, if you’re looking for a mini-notebook that’s ready to use out of the box, you’ll be better off with the Eee PC.

Specs:

- OS: gOS V2 Rocket

- Processor: 1.2 GHz VIA C7-M

- RAM installed: 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM

- Screen size: 7″

- Weight: 2 lbs.

Price: $399

4. Fujitsu LifeBook U810

Overview: The Fujitsu LifeBook U810 sports most of the functions of a regular laptop, but is about one-third the size. The U810’s clamshell screen swivels to become a tablet where you can make handwritten notes on a touch screen. Canon Eos 5D battery For those worried about theft, there’s a biometric fingerprint reader.

Specs:

- OS: Windows Vista Business with Office OneNote 2007

- Processor: 800MHz Intel A110

- RAM installed: 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM

- Screen size: 5.6″

- Weight: 1.8 lbs.

Price: $999

5. HP 2133 Mini-Note

Overview: While it’s bigger and pricier than other mini-notebooks, the HP 2133 Mini-Note offers important features that the others don’t, including an full-sized keyboard and a design more suited to business users. If you require more from your mini-laptop and don’t mind paying for it, this one is for you.

Sony Cybershot Dsc-H10 battery Specs:

- OS: Genuine Windows Vista Business or Home Basic 32, FreeDoS, or SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10

- Processor: 1.6 Ghz VIA C7-M ULV

- RAM installed: 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM

- Screen size: 8.9″

- Weight: 3.1 lbs.

Price: $749

6. CTL 2go PC

Overview: The CTL 2go PC may not be a stellar performer, but considering its intended users, it doesn’t have to be. Its rugged design, long battery life, and lightweight chassis all add to this mini-laptop’s appeal. However, the 2go PC’s small keyboard and lack of video input make it a better choice for kids than for road warriors.

Specs:

- OS: Windows XP Home or Linux

- Processor: 900MHz Intel Celeron M

- RAM installed: 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM

- Screen size: 9″

- Weight: 3 lbs.

Price: $400

7. DELL E-Series – Coming soon in August

Overview: Formerly known as mini Inspiron, Dell’s new line of subnotebooks will be named the Dell E Series. Actually there will be 2 models, a 8.9″ model and a 12.1″ one. This line of mini-laptops is targeted for kids and youth in general with purposes such as social networking/entertainment and mobile web/communication.

Specs:

- Display: 8.9″ and 12.1″

- Processor: 1.6 Ghz Intel Diamondville

- HDD: 4/8/16 SSD

- Memory: 512/1024 MB

- Camera: 0.3 Mp

- Wireless: WiFi, BT, WiMax, WWAN

- Battery: 4 cell 35Whr (~5 hr)

- OS: Linux, WinXP

- Personalization: 3-5 colors

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Along with the Intel readjustment, after Netbook experienced a prosperous age, it become step into the old age. Asus and Acer are the first to announce stop developing & researching netbooks to follow the light & thin laptop battery comprehensively.?

According to relative media reported the two laptops manufacturers, Asus and Acer has already stop the develop working of this second half year but turn all the energy into the light & thin notebooks like Latitude D600 battery. This is mainly because Intel postponed the publication of next generation netbook flat roof Pine Trail-M and MID flat roof Pine Trail-D to the 1st quarter of 2010.

But there is some information disclosed that ASUS may promote Android flat roof netbook products the later of this year, but the publication date is after October. Besides, touch model flat netbook Eee PC T91/T101 products will be follow up after the official selling of Windows 7 with dell laptop battery.

Another side, for the light & thin laptops based on CULV flat roof, ASUS already prepared 12 inch, 13.3 inch, and 15 inch machine type, 13.3 inch is the mainstream products, and it will be increased 12 inch and 14 inch model in August as Ibook G4 battery.

For Acer, the netbook products are still promote 10 inch Acer Aspire One battery series as the main products. Regarding the light & thin laptops, Acer already own 13.3 inch, 14.1 inch, and 15.6 inch, three machine models, and plan to add the model with collocation of ROM and independent display card according to the needs of market.

The two leading manufactures stop developing netbook products to developing thin and small laptop (Powerbook G4 battery), it is not some goods news for netbook market and it will bring chain-reacting. Meanwhile, it also proved that netbook market has already passed and will be replaced by light & thin laptops.

Mainstream 14-inch U80, this asus notebook a lot more “thin” than the same-size models in appearance(asus s5n battery), light flu breakthrough integration of new design, seamless and comfortable keyboard design, SRS virtual surround sound and other creative elements, in the 2.15 kilograms (6-cell asus battery) thin body, the HD4570 will forward a new generation of ATI-wide level independent display chip, the latest gold ratio of 16:9 screen size, such as LED backlight with a close under the forefront, this summer has brought the most mainstream thin and light the most efficient “Light” fashion.

UX50 is a gaming enthusiast and high-end users, with very good efficacy of audio-visual entertainment. With Intel’s new ultra-low voltage (ULV) mobile processor SU3500, NIVIDA forward new chip GeForce G105M independent display and 15.6-inch HD LED backlit screen, a sense of the new optical design, LED alphanumeric keyboard wonderful, SRS virtual surround sound, such as creative together with integration of elements in the thin shadow of the most entertaining area of 15.6 inches in the body, which is lower than 2.6 kilograms of body weight, than the ordinary 14-inch products are by no means inferior to, and its all-round strength of the impact of video entertainment.

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If you wanto Install XP on Asus Eee PC from USB flash drive, so what you will need:

• Microsoft Windows XP intstallation files on a CD / DVD / Image
• Another PC running Microsoft Windows XP or Vista
• USB_PREP8 Download:Google,2shared.com
• PeToUSB Download:Official site
• Bootsect.exe Download:Google ,2shared.com
• A USB stick large enough to hold the install files and possibly the Asus EEE PC drivers. In this tutorial a SanDisk Cruzer 4GB is used.

Use a 4 GB if you want to copy the Asus EEE PC Driver DVD. 1 Gigabyte is enough for XP install files only.

Preparing the Bootable USB flash drive

Extract USB_prep8 and PeToUSB.

Copy or move the file PeToUSB.exe from the PeToUSB folder to the USB_prep8 folder. Your usb_prep8 folder should look like this:

Double click the Command Script named usb_prep8.cmd. The command prompt window will look like this:

Insert your USB-flash drive and press any key:

Make sure you have the right USB-stick selected. In the image above you see [SanDisk Cruzer USB Device 4025Mb [E:\]] Selected. Cross the “Quick Format” if you want to save some time (marked in red GD761).

Click on Start. In the dialog box saying “Continue?”, click Yes:

Another dialog box appears, click Yes:

When the format is complete (probably immediately KD476) you will get this:

Click Ok.

Extract bootsect.zip to a folder of your choice. (In this example i use C:\bootsect\).

Open a command prompt (on XP click Start->Run and type “cmd” TD347):

Navigate to the directory where you extracted BootSect.exe using the “cd” command (this example uses folder c:\bootsect):

cd \bootsect\bootsect [Enter]

Then type:

bootsect /nt52 E: [Enter]

This writes a bootable bootsector to your USB flash drive. Do not have any windows open displaying the contents of the USB drive. Bootsect.exe needs exclusive access to the USB disk and you will not be able to write a correct bootsector.

Close this command prompt. (Do not close the other running usbprep8 GD761).

The usbprep8 command line window should now look like this:

Press enter, if it does not look like the window above.

Now we need to supply information for 1-3 in the image above.

Press 1 + [Enter] – Browse for the location of your Windows XP setup files (Your CD/DVD rom KD476). A dialog box will appear:

Select your source for the Windows XP install files (CD/DVD drive) and press OK.

Press 2 +[Enter] – enter a drive letter that is not currently in use. In this example we use T:\

Press 3 + [Enter] – enter the drive letter of your USB flash drive. You can use explorer to check.

Press 4 + [Enter] – To continue with the script.

After a short while the script will ask if you wish to format the drive T:

Press Y + [Enter]. ( This is just a temporary drive to hold the windows installation files)

When the formatting is done, Press enter to continue. You should now see the script copying files. When it has finished you should see this:

You guessed it. Press any key to continue.

The script should copy a few files.

A popup asking if you want to “copy TempDrive Files to USB-Drive in about 15 minutes = Yes” should appear:

Click Yes. The script starts copying files. This takes a while, so go get a cup of coffee or something.

Once it is done, a popup will ask you “Would you like USB-stick to be Preferred Boot Drive U:”:

Select Yes.

Select Yes to unmount the Virtual drive.

Close the usbprep8 command line window and any others you have left open. You might want to copy drivers from your Asus EEE support DVD to the USB stick.

Now we are done with preparing the USB-flash drive. Next step is to make the correct changes to BIOS. TD347

BIOS settings

Turn on your EEE PC. When the screen below turns up, hit [F2]:

You should now be in the BIOS GK479.

Use the arrow keys to navigate to the Boot section of the bios.

Select Hard disk drives as in the image below and hit Enter.

Press the + (plus) key to make the USB stick the first drive:

Exit and save the changes:

Booting your Asus EEE PC into XP install

*IMPORTANT* Do not remove the USB-stick at any part of the installation process of Windows XP.

Reboot your EEE. You should be presented with the following screen:

Select the bottom alternative (as in the image above) titled

“1.TXT Mode Setup Windows XP, Never unplug your USB-drive until After Logon”

From here on the Windows XP setup is pretty straight forward except for the partitioning…

Preparing partitions on the EEE XP Install

When you reach the partitioning portion of the setup you will see something similar to this:

In order to Install XP on Asus Eee PC from USB flash drive, you need to delete each and every one of the partitions.

When done it should look like this:

Recreate one primary partition on your Asus EEE and PC and format it using NTFS.

Once the text mode portion of the XP install is done, you will see this screen when booting up:

This time select the top alternative titled:

“2. GUI Mode Setup Windows XP. Continue setup + Start XP.”

Complete the GUI part of the setup as usual. Once the GUI part is done and your EEE reboots, again select the top alt. “2. GUI Mode…”.

Now you should boot up at a normal Windows XP desktop. You can remove the usb flash drive if you wish.

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Therefore, the afresh ration of price and hardware let us pay attention to every aspects of thisnetbook a lot, and if you also want to acquaint Asus EeePC 1000HE’s performance, then you will find answer in this article.

Asus EeePC 1000HE body appearance and weight

The whole Asus EeePC 1000HE body compared to 1000H has no big difference, the mould is well-knowned by us, but, the only difference is EeePC 1000HE offer the original white, black and blue color, besides, a new special color- gold also joined this model, the color matching is similar with the high-end EeePC S101.

The product we evaluted here is the white style, so it is difficult to distinguish the difference with model1000H if only looks the cosmetic.