So, today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of an ASUS Ale netbook. I actually have
been doing videos on ASUS netbooks since the very first one, but this is a far
more modern model. So, why don't we have a quick look at the specs before we open
this thing up? First of all, this is a brown box. It's pretty plain looking.
They've got their EPC slogan, easy to learn, work, and play. So, that was what
the E was all about. Easy, easy, easy. Okay. And then over on the side here,
you can see this is the 1001P model. So that means that it has
kind of a carbon fiber finish because we do have the black one. And it also has
an 11h hour battery for ASUS's all day
computing brand. Okay, so I've got a seal here. And I've had a few people
complain that I always come unprepared with no knife. So
today I have my knife ready in advance.
So, I'm just going to open this up.
There we go. You happy? There. See? The
box is open. Maybe we should just kind of pry this stuff out of here. And yeah,
there we go. Okay. So, this is what a knife can do for you,
folks. And you can unbox things all
day. Yes. Okay. So the first thing we
find inside is the ASUS EPC warranty
card which basically is going to tell us I'm assuming about the warranty. So you
want to fill in your information form
warranty condition. So 12 months means 12 months and 24 means 24 months. Okay,
that's good useful information. Thank you ASUS. All right, inside we will find
some more accessories. The first thing we will find is a battery. So this is an
11h hour battery. So that means it's probably a six cell or an 8 cell or I
actually don't know how many cells it is and I'm not going to try and guess. So
it is a 10.8 volt battery and it is rated for 4,400 milliamp hours. Okay,
the next thing we find is a battery notice. So please notice about this
battery something which we will find
out. Please notice that do not dispose
of in fire. Okay. Never attempt
shortcircuiting. Never attempt to disassemble and assemble. Do not
continue usage if leakage is found and must be recycled or disposed of
properly. Okay, I'm glad we noticed all of that. Next, we will have the AC
adapter, which comes with a handy little cable management thingy here. And then
we have the power cord that plugs into the other end of the AC adapter with
also a convenient power management cable
management rather. Power management stupid. Okay. So then you can use that
to tie it up here should you so desire
and then your cats wouldn't eat all eat it hopefully. I've actually already lost
a pair of Sennheiser HD 350 or HD PC 350
headphones or headset to my new cats.
It's very sad. So goes to show you cats
are good but they also destroy things.
Um next we have the users manual. ASUS
is devoted to creating environmentally friendly products and packagings. Yeah,
actually it's something I've pointed out on a couple ASUS products I've unboxed.
You see, it's all plain cardboard internals, protecting. There's no uh
there's no styrofoam for the most part, which is really good cuz styrofoam never
breaks down as far as we know. Okay, top
side, transportation precautions, charging your battery. So, this gives
you some basics of how to use your new AAA PC. And then this
is a lot of really small print. Okay,
why don't we have a look at the actual notebook itself. I'm going to go ahead and plug
in the battery as part of the whole introduction. Ooh, that's nice. So,
there is the carbon fiberesque finish that I was talking about before.
Cameraman, are you getting a good angle on this so that you can kind of see the
way it uh the way it changes how it looks depending which angle you're
looking at it from, which is really nice. So, they've got a nice uh silver
ASUS logo uh recessed into the top here.
That looks really, really sharp. So, when you're using this thing, you'll
look like you can go faster because your notebook is is lighter weight than the
other guys. It's got a carbon fiber hood. Yeah. Okay. So, then why don't we
have a look at the bottom of the notebook next? So, that's where the
battery is going to plug in. You can see the battery is actually quite a large
amount of the internal space of a of a netbook just because it's all about that
long computing experience. So, in order to make a little bit more room for the
battery, ASUS has put slightly larger
uh rubber pads on the back of it so that it's a little bit lean towards you when
you're using it, which makes for typing to be a little bit more comfortable as
well. So, that's a really nice design touch right there. Um keyboard itself,
why don't we have a look at that? This is one of the better netbook keyboards I
have seen. You can see there's almost no flex to it when I put pressure on it.
And the keys actually depress quite far, so you get good tactile feedback from
these keys. I mean, one of the biggest problems with a netbook is that it's
hard to tell if you're even hitting the key, the right keys sometimes. They've
also done nothing stupid as far as the keyboard layout goes. Because with a
netbook, you do have some design limitations. So, if you want to work in
multilingual support or anything like that, you start having to do weird
things like cut the shift key short or cut the backspace key short. But you can
see that we have two fulls size shift keys, a fullsized enter key, and a
fullsize backspace key. That is so critical for this kind of a machine.
Okay, why don't we have why don't we take off all the plasticky bits here?
So, we've got a nice glossy black bezel around the screen and then uh typical
ASUS high quality screen is what I would expect to find, but obviously it's not
on yet. Why don't we talk about the specs? I haven't even I haven't even
touched on the specs of this particular netbook at all at this time. So, I'm
just going to read off here. So, it uses the Atom N450. So, that's the latest
Atom processor. And the reason that it's more power savings is actually nothing
to do with the processor itself. I mean, a little tiny bit, but the original Atom
was also very efficient. It comes down to the chipset that controls the Atom
processor being much, much more efficient with this latest generation.
It's got 1 gig of RAM, 1 gig, 1 gig of RAM, a 160 gig drive, 10.1 in screen. It
has a webcam, and it comes with Windows 7 starter. So, you can see the little
Windows 7 starter. Actually, it looks like ASUS also knows that this is one of
the best keyboards they've produced for a netbook. It talks about it right
there. ergonomic keyboard, unsurpassed comfort, and I think they've really hit
the nail on the head with that one. So, why don't we have a look at all of the
connectivity? I'm expecting it to be exactly the same as every other netbook
on the market. So, first we have gigabit Ethernet, two USB ports, microphone,
headphones, and a SD card reader. Then
around the front we have nothing except some um airflow vents. Around the other
side, we will find, yes, exactly what I was expecting. One more USB port,
Kensington lock, VGA out, and then power
in. We've also got a little ventilation hole
here, although the fan on this thing is very, very, very quiet. That's not going
to bother you even in a in a very quiet setting. Uh, looks like it's going to
take a little while to get booted up here. So, I think that pretty much
covers everything that we can say about this uh this triple E. I No, one more
thing. It has a reasonableized touchpad. Thank you. This is one of my biggest
complaints about most of the early generation netbooks is that the touchpads were either not big enough or
not the same shape as the screen. So, it's got a proper widescreen touchpad
with a nice uh glossy chrome twobutton
mouse right there. So, that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my
unboxing of the 1001P from ASUS.