PaulWuzHere
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Hello everyone. This is my first review to be posted on here. Anyway I purchased the Asus EeePC from bestbuy about a week ago and now I feel like I have enough information to bring together a pretty good review. Here it goes.
First thoughts: When I first saw the netbook I was mildly impressed and felt it was a decent deal for the money, here are the specs:
Intel Atom N270 (nothing too special)
1GB DDR2 PC6400 (still nothing too special)
160GB Hard Drive (Meh)
3cell Battery with Marked 5 hour battery life (not too bad)
Wireless N (Okay, interesting)
10.2in LED Screen (Okay looking more appealing now)
All in all a pretty average netbook. The price tag was $299.99 + Tax, not bad really.
First Day: Got the netbook home, charged and started away! The factory install of Windows XP home is pretty basic. No large amounts of bloatware or annoying factory ads to sell me things. Keyboard starts to get on my nerves. Seems cheaply made, almost like typing a paper will make it fall apart. Checked to see if ram was easily upgradeable, answer is very yes! Little panel on bottom unscrews to reveal the memory. Hard drive would be a different story.
Next few days: Average battery life is around four hours while on wifi. Keyboard still feels a bit cheap , but am getting used to it. Screen is very bright and easily adjusted to fit lighting. Wifi works great and is pretty quick. Installed KOTOR as a pass time... bad idea. The GMA 950 really isn't suited for any amount of graphics. Did discover a fix to get counter strike source running fairly well.
Final thoughts: Great little machine for a secondary computer to keep in the living room on in the car. Keyboard is still a bit annoying but I did get used to it. I am typing this review on it now. Web cam works well with decent quality. The new design of the netbook as a whole is very attractive, very thin quite glossy so finger prints are an issue. I feel it is worth what I paid and it will be a fine machine to use around when I don't feel like using the desktop or the standard laptop.
Link to netbook http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...+1005&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218092152108
First thoughts: When I first saw the netbook I was mildly impressed and felt it was a decent deal for the money, here are the specs:
Intel Atom N270 (nothing too special)
1GB DDR2 PC6400 (still nothing too special)
160GB Hard Drive (Meh)
3cell Battery with Marked 5 hour battery life (not too bad)
Wireless N (Okay, interesting)
10.2in LED Screen (Okay looking more appealing now)
All in all a pretty average netbook. The price tag was $299.99 + Tax, not bad really.
First Day: Got the netbook home, charged and started away! The factory install of Windows XP home is pretty basic. No large amounts of bloatware or annoying factory ads to sell me things. Keyboard starts to get on my nerves. Seems cheaply made, almost like typing a paper will make it fall apart. Checked to see if ram was easily upgradeable, answer is very yes! Little panel on bottom unscrews to reveal the memory. Hard drive would be a different story.
Next few days: Average battery life is around four hours while on wifi. Keyboard still feels a bit cheap , but am getting used to it. Screen is very bright and easily adjusted to fit lighting. Wifi works great and is pretty quick. Installed KOTOR as a pass time... bad idea. The GMA 950 really isn't suited for any amount of graphics. Did discover a fix to get counter strike source running fairly well.
Final thoughts: Great little machine for a secondary computer to keep in the living room on in the car. Keyboard is still a bit annoying but I did get used to it. I am typing this review on it now. Web cam works well with decent quality. The new design of the netbook as a whole is very attractive, very thin quite glossy so finger prints are an issue. I feel it is worth what I paid and it will be a fine machine to use around when I don't feel like using the desktop or the standard laptop.
Link to netbook http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...+1005&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218092152108
