My Asus 1000HE finally arrived today and while I haven't had a lot of time to play around with it, I have taken away some key points I'd like to share for those of you looking to purchase a netbook in the near future. Earlier I posted why I pre-ordered the Asus 1000HE (side note it is still available for $374 on Amazon - $25 off). Here is what I can confirm:
Yes the battery life really is that great. I think it very well could be possible to hit the target 9.5 hour battery hour life if you used the power saving mode, turned off wifi, blue tooth and the camera but I'm not ever going to bother doing that. I expect to get about 7 hours on a single charge which is triple what I have been getting on my Lenovo R61 so I'm more than excited about the battery life. So far all my computing thus far has been on the super performance mode, but I'll do some testing on other modes later.
They keyboard is excellent and reminds me of a Mac Book with the chiclet keys. Overall the keyboard is great. I'm writing these impressions on the netbook now and have had little trouble adjusting to the smaller size - after all the keyboard is 92% full size. One thing I am still getting used to is the pressure it takes for the left and right click buttons to respond though. It seems like they're a little too stiff, but that may just be because I'm not used to it yet.
I have a lot more to say about this netbook though so I'll be posting an extensive review this weekend. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed so you don't miss it.
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