After giving my old netbook (the VIA C7-M powered 7” Quanta IL-1 based One A120) to my mother so that she can surf the web while being in hospital for cancer treatment, I noticed that I do in fact need a netbook. So I got myself a new one, the Atom Pinetrail powered ASUS Eee PC 1001p.
It is a nice netbook, though I still run Windows XP on it, because I don´t have time right now to install and customize Linux, I just need this beast to work at university – preparing examinations isn´t fun. What I really like is the fact that it is pretty much non glossy – the mouse and power buttons are, the screen bezel is and that´s it, the case is matte and has a carbon like finish.. well, just take a look at it.
Of course it lacks some features that were nice to have, e.g. a touchscreen was great, bluetooth not included (in case you need it) and in current distributions the WLan chip (a new Atheros one) is still unsupported – I don´t know whether the LAN is right now (will edit this if necessary). And than there is one more thing: The left shift key is pretty small, while the right one is just huge – as I do use the left one more often than the right one, this is an issue for me, but I feel like I am getting used too, so you most likely will as well. Another keyboard issue: It could be more silent, and it bends a little bit – the bend should be easy to fix, maybe the bend fix will make the keyboard more silent…
That´s it for now. More to follow, possibly.
Otherwise you might want to check out the unboxing video Balazs from nDevil.com [German] made (IMHO the black one I have is much more beautiful ;-) ).
