Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: Asus, EeePC, 1000 | Themes: Business Notebooks, Laptops and Notebooks
3. Ports, Components and Specs
The expansion ports on the Eee PC 1000 are what we’ve seen on earlier models: a full-sized VGA port, three USB ports and a memory card slot for expansion, a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet port, and headphone and microphone sockets so you can make Skype calls without sharing the details with everyone around you.
What’s new is support for Bluetooth and 802.11n. The n standard still isn’t finalized, but access points supporting the draft version are common, and allow you to get much faster data transfer speeds.
The Dolby Sound Room stereo speakers on the base of the Eee deliver significant improved sound quality compared to that of previous Eee units. You can get significant volume without distortion, but you can also listen at a low volume without losing too much bass. It wouldn’t replace an MP3 player for sound quality, but you’ll enjoy music and videos as well as Skype conversations far more than on many budget laptops.
Many of the smallest ultra portable notebooks use 1.8” parallel ATA hard drives to save on space—including the MacBook Air and Toshiba R400—but those drives only run at 4300 RPM. In contrast, the Windows version of the Eee PC 1000 has an 80 GB hard drive: the 2.5” 5400 RPM Seagate Momentus, with a SATA interface, which is an improvement over 1.8” drives but still slower than the 7200 RPM drive in the HP Mini-Note. The disk is partitioned into two logical drives, but unlike the SSDs in the Linux Eee PCs, it isn’t two physical disks, so you can repartition it as one large drive if required.
| Spec | 900 | 1000 |
|---|---|---|
| Width x Height x Depth | 8.9 x 1.5 x 6.7 | 10.5 x 1.5 x 7.5 |
| Battery | 2lb 2oz | 3lb 30z |
| Display size | 8.9 | 10.2 |
| Display resolution | 1024x600 | 1024x600 |
| CPU | Intel Celeron M 900 MHz, 512 kb | Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz, 512 kb |
| Memory | 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 | 2 GB 667MHz DDR2 |
| Hard drive | ASUS-PHISON SSD 8 GB | Seagate ST980811AS Momentus 80 GB (40 GB SSD with Linux) |
| Bluetooth | No | Yes |
- Previous page Keyboard, Trackpad and Screen
- Next page The Atom Advantage: Performance
what about eeepc 901? not even a mention or little review in tomsguide?
I bought a 1000H from NewEgg.com the first day it was available. The keyboard is very firm. I've noted lots of comments about a bendy, flexible keyboard. Apparently, Asus fixed that problem in early units sent to the U.S.
Re: fingerprints. This really bothers some reviewers. I agree. I'm returning my Corvette because fingerprints are visible on the door handles.
Anon - Asus did say this keyboard problem was only a problem with the review units, but I've heard of the same problem in shipping models of the Eee 900 and 901 (with users fixing it by putting strips of packing phone into the keyboard well) so it was an issue I wanted to cover.
Just got mine. Eee 1000HA (160Gb storage) Compared it to HP mini-note. HP has a better display and is much sleeker, but the Eee trumps it on battery longetvity, and OpenGL. I run planetarium software, wich I brought to the store on a USB drive, and tried on Aspire One, HP Mini Note, MSI Wind and Asus Eee. The MSI was lacking in storage (80Gb), The Acer had way too much pre-loaded crapware on it, wich slowed it down to a crawl. ( I did not fancy spending a whole day cleaning it up.) The HP was 160$ more yet not quite up to the job for OpenGL, unless I reduced the resolution, which defeats the purpose of a larger screen. I Feel the Eee 1000HA, in my case, was the best deal out there.