ASUS EEE PC 1001P Black Netbook Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,547 words · ~7 min read
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So, today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of an ASUS Ale netbook. I actually have
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been doing videos on ASUS netbooks since the very first one, but this is a far
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more modern model. So, why don't we have a quick look at the specs before we open
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this thing up? First of all, this is a brown box. It's pretty plain looking.
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They've got their EPC slogan, easy to learn, work, and play. So, that was what
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the E was all about. Easy, easy, easy. Okay. And then over on the side here,
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you can see this is the 1001P model. So that means that it has
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kind of a carbon fiber finish because we do have the black one. And it also has
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an 11h hour battery for ASUS's all day
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computing brand. Okay, so I've got a seal here. And I've had a few people
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complain that I always come unprepared with no knife. So
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today I have my knife ready in advance.
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So, I'm just going to open this up.
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There we go. You happy? There. See? The
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box is open. Maybe we should just kind of pry this stuff out of here. And yeah,
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there we go. Okay. So, this is what a knife can do for you,
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folks. And you can unbox things all
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day. Yes. Okay. So the first thing we
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find inside is the ASUS EPC warranty
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card which basically is going to tell us I'm assuming about the warranty. So you
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want to fill in your information form
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warranty condition. So 12 months means 12 months and 24 means 24 months. Okay,
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that's good useful information. Thank you ASUS. All right, inside we will find
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some more accessories. The first thing we will find is a battery. So this is an
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11h hour battery. So that means it's probably a six cell or an 8 cell or I
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actually don't know how many cells it is and I'm not going to try and guess. So
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it is a 10.8 volt battery and it is rated for 4,400 milliamp hours. Okay,
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the next thing we find is a battery notice. So please notice about this
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battery something which we will find
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out. Please notice that do not dispose
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of in fire. Okay. Never attempt
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shortcircuiting. Never attempt to disassemble and assemble. Do not
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continue usage if leakage is found and must be recycled or disposed of
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properly. Okay, I'm glad we noticed all of that. Next, we will have the AC
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adapter, which comes with a handy little cable management thingy here. And then
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we have the power cord that plugs into the other end of the AC adapter with
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also a convenient power management cable
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management rather. Power management stupid. Okay. So then you can use that
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to tie it up here should you so desire
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and then your cats wouldn't eat all eat it hopefully. I've actually already lost
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a pair of Sennheiser HD 350 or HD PC 350
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headphones or headset to my new cats.
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It's very sad. So goes to show you cats
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are good but they also destroy things.
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Um next we have the users manual. ASUS
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is devoted to creating environmentally friendly products and packagings. Yeah,
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actually it's something I've pointed out on a couple ASUS products I've unboxed.
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You see, it's all plain cardboard internals, protecting. There's no uh
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there's no styrofoam for the most part, which is really good cuz styrofoam never
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breaks down as far as we know. Okay, top
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side, transportation precautions, charging your battery. So, this gives
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you some basics of how to use your new AAA PC. And then this
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is a lot of really small print. Okay,
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why don't we have a look at the actual notebook itself. I'm going to go ahead and plug
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in the battery as part of the whole introduction. Ooh, that's nice. So,
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there is the carbon fiberesque finish that I was talking about before.
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Cameraman, are you getting a good angle on this so that you can kind of see the
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way it uh the way it changes how it looks depending which angle you're
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looking at it from, which is really nice. So, they've got a nice uh silver
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ASUS logo uh recessed into the top here.
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That looks really, really sharp. So, when you're using this thing, you'll
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look like you can go faster because your notebook is is lighter weight than the
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other guys. It's got a carbon fiber hood. Yeah. Okay. So, then why don't we
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have a look at the bottom of the notebook next? So, that's where the
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battery is going to plug in. You can see the battery is actually quite a large
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amount of the internal space of a of a netbook just because it's all about that
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long computing experience. So, in order to make a little bit more room for the
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battery, ASUS has put slightly larger
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uh rubber pads on the back of it so that it's a little bit lean towards you when
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you're using it, which makes for typing to be a little bit more comfortable as
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well. So, that's a really nice design touch right there. Um keyboard itself,
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why don't we have a look at that? This is one of the better netbook keyboards I
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have seen. You can see there's almost no flex to it when I put pressure on it.
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And the keys actually depress quite far, so you get good tactile feedback from
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these keys. I mean, one of the biggest problems with a netbook is that it's
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hard to tell if you're even hitting the key, the right keys sometimes. They've
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also done nothing stupid as far as the keyboard layout goes. Because with a
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netbook, you do have some design limitations. So, if you want to work in
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multilingual support or anything like that, you start having to do weird
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things like cut the shift key short or cut the backspace key short. But you can
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see that we have two fulls size shift keys, a fullsized enter key, and a
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fullsize backspace key. That is so critical for this kind of a machine.
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Okay, why don't we have why don't we take off all the plasticky bits here?
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So, we've got a nice glossy black bezel around the screen and then uh typical
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ASUS high quality screen is what I would expect to find, but obviously it's not
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on yet. Why don't we talk about the specs? I haven't even I haven't even
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touched on the specs of this particular netbook at all at this time. So, I'm
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just going to read off here. So, it uses the Atom N450. So, that's the latest
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Atom processor. And the reason that it's more power savings is actually nothing
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to do with the processor itself. I mean, a little tiny bit, but the original Atom
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was also very efficient. It comes down to the chipset that controls the Atom
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processor being much, much more efficient with this latest generation.
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It's got 1 gig of RAM, 1 gig, 1 gig of RAM, a 160 gig drive, 10.1 in screen. It
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has a webcam, and it comes with Windows 7 starter. So, you can see the little
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Windows 7 starter. Actually, it looks like ASUS also knows that this is one of
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the best keyboards they've produced for a netbook. It talks about it right
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there. ergonomic keyboard, unsurpassed comfort, and I think they've really hit
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the nail on the head with that one. So, why don't we have a look at all of the
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connectivity? I'm expecting it to be exactly the same as every other netbook
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on the market. So, first we have gigabit Ethernet, two USB ports, microphone,
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headphones, and a SD card reader. Then
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around the front we have nothing except some um airflow vents. Around the other
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side, we will find, yes, exactly what I was expecting. One more USB port,
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Kensington lock, VGA out, and then power
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in. We've also got a little ventilation hole
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here, although the fan on this thing is very, very, very quiet. That's not going
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to bother you even in a in a very quiet setting. Uh, looks like it's going to
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take a little while to get booted up here. So, I think that pretty much
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covers everything that we can say about this uh this triple E. I No, one more
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thing. It has a reasonableized touchpad. Thank you. This is one of my biggest
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complaints about most of the early generation netbooks is that the touchpads were either not big enough or
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not the same shape as the screen. So, it's got a proper widescreen touchpad
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with a nice uh glossy chrome twobutton
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mouse right there. So, that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my
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unboxing of the 1001P from ASUS.