This note was composed on the 1000HE.
The PC/netbook is small, light weight and quite usable. It has Windows XP Home installed by default.
Setup is straightforward, like setting up any typical XP machine.
The hard drive (~150GB) was divided into 4 partitions
- C drive about 85GB
- D drive about 60GB
- Hidden partitions of about 5GB and something less than 40MB.
Will be upgrading the 1GB memory to 2GB tomorrow but the machine is quite perky as configured.
The keyboard is surprising good, especially compared to older Eee models. I have no trouble typing other than my normal keyboard problems brought about by typing on 5 to 10 different keyboards a day.
I installed:
- Avast Home free anti-virus
- Windows Defender
- Windows XP updates
- Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and updates
- Firefox (Adblock Plus, Foxmarks, Delicious Bookmarks, Toolbar Buttons, Textarea Cache, and IE Tab)
- Dropbox
- Windows Live Mesh
- Windows Live Sync
- Logmein
- Acronis True Image Home 11
- Acronis Disk Director Suite 10
I cleaned up and accessorized the All Programs menus
Deleted the D drive partition and re-sized the C drive to ~145GB.
Successfully tested attaching a DVD player via a USB connection (do not know if I can boot from it – will test this tomorrow) [Edit - yes it does boot from the USB connected DVD]
The screen is great except that the native resolution is 1024×600 so it has a wide screen that is a bit short (1.71 vs a standard 1.6 widescreen ratio) Office 2007 applications with their excessively large Ribbons look awful. This screen highlights the foolishness of the Ribbon.
Still have to test the SD card reader, camera, microphone, battery life and then the fun begins—
I will test Vista and Windows 7 and I am toying with testing a Hackintosh installation.
I have to broadcast the Weston Board of Education meeting tonight and plan on taking this little netbook with me to see how it does away from home and only on the battery.
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