WEBVTT 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 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:12.960 been doing videos on ASUS netbooks since the very first one, but this is a far 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 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:21.600 this thing up? First of all, this is a brown box. It's pretty plain looking. 00:00:19.119 --> 00:00:25.920 They've got their EPC slogan, easy to learn, work, and play. So, that was what 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:30.679 the E was all about. Easy, easy, easy. Okay. And then over on the side here, 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:35.760 you can see this is the 1001P model. So that means that it has 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 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:44.960 an 11h hour battery for ASUS's all day 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 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:55.680 complain that I always come unprepared with no knife. So 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:59.039 today I have my knife ready in advance. 00:00:55.680 --> 00:01:04.400 So, I'm just going to open this up. 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:07.119 There we go. You happy? There. See? The 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, 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:20.000 there we go. Okay. So, this is what a knife can do for you, 00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:20.000 folks. And you can unbox things all 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:28.000 day. Yes. Okay. So the first thing we 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:30.400 find inside is the ASUS EPC warranty 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:35.840 card which basically is going to tell us I'm assuming about the warranty. So you 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:38.000 want to fill in your information form 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:44.240 warranty condition. So 12 months means 12 months and 24 means 24 months. Okay, 00:01:42.479 --> 00:01:48.720 that's good useful information. Thank you ASUS. All right, inside we will find 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:53.840 some more accessories. The first thing we will find is a battery. So this is an 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 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 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, 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:13.560 the next thing we find is a battery notice. So please notice about this 00:02:09.959 --> 00:02:16.959 battery something which we will find 00:02:13.560 --> 00:02:20.000 out. Please notice that do not dispose 00:02:16.959 --> 00:02:21.520 of in fire. Okay. Never attempt 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:26.480 shortcircuiting. Never attempt to disassemble and assemble. Do not 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:30.720 continue usage if leakage is found and must be recycled or disposed of 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:36.239 properly. Okay, I'm glad we noticed all of that. Next, we will have the AC 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:41.519 adapter, which comes with a handy little cable management thingy here. And then 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:47.040 we have the power cord that plugs into the other end of the AC adapter with 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:49.280 also a convenient power management cable 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:55.519 management rather. Power management stupid. Okay. So then you can use that 00:02:52.480 --> 00:02:57.840 to tie it up here should you so desire 00:02:55.519 --> 00:03:05.200 and then your cats wouldn't eat all eat it hopefully. I've actually already lost 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:08.400 a pair of Sennheiser HD 350 or HD PC 350 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:13.159 headphones or headset to my new cats. 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:16.560 It's very sad. So goes to show you cats 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:20.239 are good but they also destroy things. 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.920 Um next we have the users manual. ASUS 00:03:20.239 --> 00:03:25.120 is devoted to creating environmentally friendly products and packagings. Yeah, 00:03:23.519 --> 00:03:28.879 actually it's something I've pointed out on a couple ASUS products I've unboxed. 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:33.120 You see, it's all plain cardboard internals, protecting. There's no uh 00:03:30.959 --> 00:03:39.040 there's no styrofoam for the most part, which is really good cuz styrofoam never 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:40.959 breaks down as far as we know. Okay, top 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:43.840 side, transportation precautions, charging your battery. So, this gives 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:51.920 you some basics of how to use your new AAA PC. And then this 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:53.280 is a lot of really small print. Okay, 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 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:03.920 in the battery as part of the whole introduction. Ooh, that's nice. So, 00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:07.040 there is the carbon fiberesque finish that I was talking about before. 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 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:13.599 way it uh the way it changes how it looks depending which angle you're 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:19.120 looking at it from, which is really nice. So, they've got a nice uh silver 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:20.880 ASUS logo uh recessed into the top here. 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:24.720 That looks really, really sharp. So, when you're using this thing, you'll 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:29.160 look like you can go faster because your notebook is is lighter weight than the 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 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:37.759 have a look at the bottom of the notebook next? So, that's where the 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:42.560 battery is going to plug in. You can see the battery is actually quite a large 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 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:53.680 long computing experience. So, in order to make a little bit more room for the 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:56.000 battery, ASUS has put slightly larger 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 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:03.440 you're using it, which makes for typing to be a little bit more comfortable as 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:07.199 well. So, that's a really nice design touch right there. Um keyboard itself, 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 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. 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:19.919 And the keys actually depress quite far, so you get good tactile feedback from 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:22.560 these keys. I mean, one of the biggest problems with a netbook is that it's 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:26.960 hard to tell if you're even hitting the key, the right keys sometimes. They've 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:30.560 also done nothing stupid as far as the keyboard layout goes. Because with a 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:33.759 netbook, you do have some design limitations. So, if you want to work in 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:37.840 multilingual support or anything like that, you start having to do weird 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:41.440 things like cut the shift key short or cut the backspace key short. But you can 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:45.360 see that we have two fulls size shift keys, a fullsized enter key, and a 00:05:43.520 --> 00:05:49.520 fullsize backspace key. That is so critical for this kind of a machine. 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? 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:59.759 So, we've got a nice glossy black bezel around the screen and then uh typical 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:03.360 ASUS high quality screen is what I would expect to find, but obviously it's not 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 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:12.880 touched on the specs of this particular netbook at all at this time. So, I'm 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 00:06:15.039 --> 00:06:21.680 Atom processor. And the reason that it's more power savings is actually nothing 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:26.080 to do with the processor itself. I mean, a little tiny bit, but the original Atom 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:30.400 was also very efficient. It comes down to the chipset that controls the Atom 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:35.199 processor being much, much more efficient with this latest generation. 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 00:06:38.400 --> 00:06:44.560 has a webcam, and it comes with Windows 7 starter. So, you can see the little 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:48.319 Windows 7 starter. Actually, it looks like ASUS also knows that this is one of 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:52.960 the best keyboards they've produced for a netbook. It talks about it right 00:06:50.080 --> 00:06:56.880 there. ergonomic keyboard, unsurpassed comfort, and I think they've really hit 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 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:03.840 connectivity? I'm expecting it to be exactly the same as every other netbook 00:07:01.840 --> 00:07:10.240 on the market. So, first we have gigabit Ethernet, two USB ports, microphone, 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:12.800 headphones, and a SD card reader. Then 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:18.479 around the front we have nothing except some um airflow vents. Around the other 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:23.919 side, we will find, yes, exactly what I was expecting. One more USB port, 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:26.240 Kensington lock, VGA out, and then power 00:07:23.919 --> 00:07:30.080 in. We've also got a little ventilation hole 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:34.560 here, although the fan on this thing is very, very, very quiet. That's not going 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 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:41.599 take a little while to get booted up here. So, I think that pretty much 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:45.840 covers everything that we can say about this uh this triple E. I No, one more 00:07:43.599 --> 00:07:49.039 thing. It has a reasonableized touchpad. Thank you. This is one of my biggest 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 00:07:53.360 --> 00:08:00.960 not the same shape as the screen. So, it's got a proper widescreen touchpad 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:03.759 with a nice uh glossy chrome twobutton 00:08:00.960 --> 00:08:08.520 mouse right there. So, that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:12.919 unboxing of the 1001P from ASUS.