1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:08,320 So, today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of an ASUS Ale netbook. I actually have 2 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:12,960 been doing videos on ASUS netbooks since the very first one, but this is a far 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:16,640 more modern model. So, why don't we have a quick look at the specs before we open 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:21,600 this thing up? First of all, this is a brown box. It's pretty plain looking. 5 00:00:19,119 --> 00:00:25,920 They've got their EPC slogan, easy to learn, work, and play. So, that was what 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:30,679 the E was all about. Easy, easy, easy. Okay. And then over on the side here, 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:35,760 you can see this is the 1001P model. So that means that it has 8 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:42,040 kind of a carbon fiber finish because we do have the black one. And it also has 9 00:00:38,719 --> 00:00:44,960 an 11h hour battery for ASUS's all day 10 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:50,160 computing brand. Okay, so I've got a seal here. And I've had a few people 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:55,680 complain that I always come unprepared with no knife. So 12 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:59,039 today I have my knife ready in advance. 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:04,400 So, I'm just going to open this up. 14 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:07,119 There we go. You happy? There. See? The 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:13,600 box is open. Maybe we should just kind of pry this stuff out of here. And yeah, 16 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:20,000 there we go. Okay. So, this is what a knife can do for you, 17 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:20,000 folks. And you can unbox things all 18 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:28,000 day. Yes. Okay. So the first thing we 19 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:30,400 find inside is the ASUS EPC warranty 20 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:35,840 card which basically is going to tell us I'm assuming about the warranty. So you 21 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:38,000 want to fill in your information form 22 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:44,240 warranty condition. So 12 months means 12 months and 24 means 24 months. Okay, 23 00:01:42,479 --> 00:01:48,720 that's good useful information. Thank you ASUS. All right, inside we will find 24 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:53,840 some more accessories. The first thing we will find is a battery. So this is an 25 00:01:51,439 --> 00:01:58,399 11h hour battery. So that means it's probably a six cell or an 8 cell or I 26 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,640 actually don't know how many cells it is and I'm not going to try and guess. So 27 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:07,360 it is a 10.8 volt battery and it is rated for 4,400 milliamp hours. Okay, 28 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:13,560 the next thing we find is a battery notice. So please notice about this 29 00:02:09,959 --> 00:02:16,959 battery something which we will find 30 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:20,000 out. Please notice that do not dispose 31 00:02:16,959 --> 00:02:21,520 of in fire. Okay. Never attempt 32 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:26,480 shortcircuiting. Never attempt to disassemble and assemble. Do not 33 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:30,720 continue usage if leakage is found and must be recycled or disposed of 34 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:36,239 properly. Okay, I'm glad we noticed all of that. Next, we will have the AC 35 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:41,519 adapter, which comes with a handy little cable management thingy here. And then 36 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:47,040 we have the power cord that plugs into the other end of the AC adapter with 37 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:49,280 also a convenient power management cable 38 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:55,519 management rather. Power management stupid. Okay. So then you can use that 39 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:57,840 to tie it up here should you so desire 40 00:02:55,519 --> 00:03:05,200 and then your cats wouldn't eat all eat it hopefully. I've actually already lost 41 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:08,400 a pair of Sennheiser HD 350 or HD PC 350 42 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:13,159 headphones or headset to my new cats. 43 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:16,560 It's very sad. So goes to show you cats 44 00:03:13,159 --> 00:03:20,239 are good but they also destroy things. 45 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,920 Um next we have the users manual. ASUS 46 00:03:20,239 --> 00:03:25,120 is devoted to creating environmentally friendly products and packagings. Yeah, 47 00:03:23,519 --> 00:03:28,879 actually it's something I've pointed out on a couple ASUS products I've unboxed. 48 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:33,120 You see, it's all plain cardboard internals, protecting. There's no uh 49 00:03:30,959 --> 00:03:39,040 there's no styrofoam for the most part, which is really good cuz styrofoam never 50 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:40,959 breaks down as far as we know. Okay, top 51 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,840 side, transportation precautions, charging your battery. So, this gives 52 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:51,920 you some basics of how to use your new AAA PC. And then this 53 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:53,280 is a lot of really small print. Okay, 54 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:58,239 why don't we have a look at the actual notebook itself. I'm going to go ahead and plug 55 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:03,920 in the battery as part of the whole introduction. Ooh, that's nice. So, 56 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:07,040 there is the carbon fiberesque finish that I was talking about before. 57 00:04:05,519 --> 00:04:10,879 Cameraman, are you getting a good angle on this so that you can kind of see the 58 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,599 way it uh the way it changes how it looks depending which angle you're 59 00:04:12,319 --> 00:04:19,120 looking at it from, which is really nice. So, they've got a nice uh silver 60 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,880 ASUS logo uh recessed into the top here. 61 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:24,720 That looks really, really sharp. So, when you're using this thing, you'll 62 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:29,160 look like you can go faster because your notebook is is lighter weight than the 63 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:34,000 other guys. It's got a carbon fiber hood. Yeah. Okay. So, then why don't we 64 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,759 have a look at the bottom of the notebook next? So, that's where the 65 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:42,560 battery is going to plug in. You can see the battery is actually quite a large 66 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:47,759 amount of the internal space of a of a netbook just because it's all about that 67 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:53,680 long computing experience. So, in order to make a little bit more room for the 68 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:56,000 battery, ASUS has put slightly larger 69 00:04:53,680 --> 00:05:00,240 uh rubber pads on the back of it so that it's a little bit lean towards you when 70 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:03,440 you're using it, which makes for typing to be a little bit more comfortable as 71 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:07,199 well. So, that's a really nice design touch right there. Um keyboard itself, 72 00:05:05,919 --> 00:05:11,520 why don't we have a look at that? This is one of the better netbook keyboards I 73 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:16,320 have seen. You can see there's almost no flex to it when I put pressure on it. 74 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:19,919 And the keys actually depress quite far, so you get good tactile feedback from 75 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,560 these keys. I mean, one of the biggest problems with a netbook is that it's 76 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:26,960 hard to tell if you're even hitting the key, the right keys sometimes. They've 77 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:30,560 also done nothing stupid as far as the keyboard layout goes. Because with a 78 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,759 netbook, you do have some design limitations. So, if you want to work in 79 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:37,840 multilingual support or anything like that, you start having to do weird 80 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:41,440 things like cut the shift key short or cut the backspace key short. But you can 81 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:45,360 see that we have two fulls size shift keys, a fullsized enter key, and a 82 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:49,520 fullsize backspace key. That is so critical for this kind of a machine. 83 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:54,320 Okay, why don't we have why don't we take off all the plasticky bits here? 84 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:59,759 So, we've got a nice glossy black bezel around the screen and then uh typical 85 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:03,360 ASUS high quality screen is what I would expect to find, but obviously it's not 86 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:08,000 on yet. Why don't we talk about the specs? I haven't even I haven't even 87 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:12,880 touched on the specs of this particular netbook at all at this time. So, I'm 88 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:17,919 just going to read off here. So, it uses the Atom N450. So, that's the latest 89 00:06:15,039 --> 00:06:21,680 Atom processor. And the reason that it's more power savings is actually nothing 90 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:26,080 to do with the processor itself. I mean, a little tiny bit, but the original Atom 91 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:30,400 was also very efficient. It comes down to the chipset that controls the Atom 92 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:35,199 processor being much, much more efficient with this latest generation. 93 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:40,319 It's got 1 gig of RAM, 1 gig, 1 gig of RAM, a 160 gig drive, 10.1 in screen. It 94 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:44,560 has a webcam, and it comes with Windows 7 starter. So, you can see the little 95 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:48,319 Windows 7 starter. Actually, it looks like ASUS also knows that this is one of 96 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:52,960 the best keyboards they've produced for a netbook. It talks about it right 97 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:56,880 there. ergonomic keyboard, unsurpassed comfort, and I think they've really hit 98 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:00,080 the nail on the head with that one. So, why don't we have a look at all of the 99 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,840 connectivity? I'm expecting it to be exactly the same as every other netbook 100 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:10,240 on the market. So, first we have gigabit Ethernet, two USB ports, microphone, 101 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:12,800 headphones, and a SD card reader. Then 102 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:18,479 around the front we have nothing except some um airflow vents. Around the other 103 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:23,919 side, we will find, yes, exactly what I was expecting. One more USB port, 104 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:26,240 Kensington lock, VGA out, and then power 105 00:07:23,919 --> 00:07:30,080 in. We've also got a little ventilation hole 106 00:07:27,319 --> 00:07:34,560 here, although the fan on this thing is very, very, very quiet. That's not going 107 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:37,840 to bother you even in a in a very quiet setting. Uh, looks like it's going to 108 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:41,599 take a little while to get booted up here. So, I think that pretty much 109 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:45,840 covers everything that we can say about this uh this triple E. I No, one more 110 00:07:43,599 --> 00:07:49,039 thing. It has a reasonableized touchpad. Thank you. This is one of my biggest 111 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:55,599 complaints about most of the early generation netbooks is that the touchpads were either not big enough or 112 00:07:53,360 --> 00:08:00,960 not the same shape as the screen. So, it's got a proper widescreen touchpad 113 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:03,759 with a nice uh glossy chrome twobutton 114 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:08,520 mouse right there. So, that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my 115 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:12,919 unboxing of the 1001P from ASUS.