Asus EeePC 1000-HE

I have always been amazed by the idea of netbooks. A cheap replacement for laptop used mostly for browsing.

So yesterday I went with one of my friends to see the prices and specs, I had put my mind on one of three choices:

1- Toshiba netbook with 6cell battery. [130KD]

2- Asus EeePC 1000-HE with 6cell battery. [119KD]

3- An HP-Compaq netbook with built in HSDPA modem. [not sure but I think around 105KD?]

And as seen from the topic I got the Asus one because its cheap and I am cheap .

When I decided to go for Asus i chose the black color, but what I did not know that the black colored Asus wasn’t a 1000HE but instead it was 1000H. These two models are identical except for the 6cell battery with the HE, What was funny that the seller did not know and insisted that the black one was with the 6cell battery. Not to mention the seller was going to give us the laptop on the show instead of a sealed one.

After many checks to see if the black one came with enhanced battery or not I decided to go for the gold laptop just to be sure that it was 1000HE.

Laptop specs:

Intel Atom N280/1.66GHz, 1GB DDR2 RAM, Intel GMA950 VGA Card, 160GB HDD, Wireless 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, 10″ TFT Display with 1024×600 resolution, 1.3 MP camera.

The netbook was slightly heavy compared to other ones, I think about 1.25-1.5KG, but i guess this is because the Laptop-sized keyboard and the 10.1″ screen.

As for the battery I think the laptop can sustain at least 5hrs of continuous usage, but i have not measured it myself.

First thing to do! install UBUNTU!! Thank god for Wubi

Ubuntu recognized everything without any problems, sound/video/wireless were working flawlessly, yet i have not figured a way to connect to the internet using bluetooth and my E90 in Ubuntu.

[Edit: I managed to connect by bluetooth successfully using a program called "Blueman" under ubuntu]

Here are some pictures i took on the go: