I have a 1000 and I really like it. Came with Xandros, but wiped it for Arch ;) 8GB SSD + 32 GB second SSD. I run KDE 4 and develop parallel code on it without any problem. I upgraded to 2GB of ram, really easy to do and it does _not_ void the warranty. I also switched the wireless card. The rt2860 might be good, but its driver is bad. A good example of code dumping... now its does not evolve much: its in staging tree. I changed it for an intel iwl4965. Everything on it works: wireless, bluetooth, external monitor, suspend, etc. I did developped acpi-eeepc-generic for the extra butons and such: written in bash and only depends on acpid. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23318 Pros: -Keyboard is better on the 1000 then the 90{0,1}. Not only the size but also the feeling. I had a 901, and the keys near the / were jumpy. -6 cells battery, more then the Acer Aspier One -1.3 Mpixel webcam -Good SSD size: 40GB is more then enough. Fast 8GB is for arch, the slow 32GB is for the rest. -Can run kde 4 with kwin special effects -Everything works (special keys, suspend, rfkill, etc) -Does not come with XP Cons: -The touchpad can be jumpy when using 2 finger scrolls. 2 finger circular is fine though. -Battery might seem big: it comes out a bit. It's less oversize then on the 901 though: when it was open on my lap, it could just fall on its back! -Webcam is a bit dark -Speakers could be louder -Xandros is really bad I love my 1000 ;) 2009/9/28 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Corin Schedler <corin.gs@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:00:32PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM, <hollunder@gmx.at> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:22:15 -0500 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
* Read reviews, there are lots of them. (even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks :))
Awesome! Thanks for this
I look around for some time and would probably go with an eeepc. It seems they switched to windows again tough. Netbook based on the ion platform seem to be available now (nvidia graphics) but there likely are still no dual core atom ones.
I eventually decided to go for a thinkpad instead, 'just' have to find a model that suits since you can't customise them here...
I've begun looking in depth at the Eee 1005HA model. Does anyone have experience with this one? I notice there are P, V, and B models (in order of most expensive to least), with slightly varying specs.
I have a 1000H. It's slightly older but almost identical to the HA model. It's been running Arch since I bought it and it runs great. The hotkey power switch for the WiFi card doesn't work, and there seems to be a slightly higher power drain in suspend mode than the XP install that came on it. I'm not sure if that has to do with my suspend configuration or what, but it's worth noting.
Anyway, I typically run GNOME...xcompmgr (or compiz) works, but it can get 'stuttery' if you're doing much more than web browsing. Video/media is hit and miss for me - YouTube is watchable, Hulu is not, for example.
I'd recommend it if you want to get a netbook. The only hardware gripe I have is the 'mini' right shift key - it's the size of a standard letter key, and it's super annoying especially with how much code I write. It's awesome otherwise.
The shift key is fixed on the 1005 and 1008 models. I've seen this mentioned in a few reviews.
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/1005ha_bk...