My first netbook
For three months, I studied netbooks online and try them in local stores. For the price and quality, I do not think you can beat this ASUS. I tried in most toy stores and cheap felt-like and have at least $ 50 to $ 75 higher.The exterior has a nice texture faux carbon fiber on the surface. The screen is matte and that is because I intend to sit outside on the terrace if the weather is fine ever – then there will not shine. (ETA: It’s finally warm enough to be on deck and the screen does very well in both shade and sun). Slightly larger than a book, and less than 3 lbs. with the battery installed. It has a USB port on the right and the left so it is easier to insert the mouse rather than the cord to slip over from the left. (I hate touch pads). Believe it or not, many netbooks and even some cheaper laptops do not have a USB port on the right side.
This model has the 6 cell battery which is supposed to have 8 hours of battery life. Until now it was close to 6.5 hours for me. When I download programs to install I use the function key to turn off the backlight of the screen so that aid in the life of the battery. I feel that the use of a mouse is used to drain the battery faster than using the touchpad itself.
My netbook is for occasional use, not work-related. I use it for web browsing, e-mails, Word documents simple, and photo editing after downloading pictures from my camera. There is an opening for an SD card on the side making it easy to transfer photos from a digital camera without the USB cord out of the unit.
It comes with Windows 7 Starter and 1 GB of RAM, a hard drive with 250 GB also comes with a dumbed version of Microsoft Office 2010 with Word and Excel only. No Outlook or PowerPoint. Word and Excel are not complete, but have enough features for the average user for documents. And it’s not a trial version of Office.
I do not plan on making Win7 Home Premium that Win7 Starter is fine with me. Some people complain that with Starter you are limited to only Windows basic symbol for wallpaper, but really …. How often do you really look at a picture on your desk?
This netbook also comes with a built-in web cam and microphone, and works well with Skype.
Unfortunately ASUS added some bloatware like Cloud, some games, etc., that I uninstalled without problems. There is also a version of 30-day trial of Trend Micro Platinum, which does not work with my Yahoo home page so I uninstalled Trend Micro and installed Avast free antivirus instead. Works great and is not a memory hog.
I am running Firefox 5 instead of IE8 which came on, I was a little concerned that Firefox 5 would not work because of a requirement is a Pentium 4 processor or higher, but it works very well for Win7 Starter is 32 bits.
Besides the battery is not “really” have a life of 8 hours, my other complaint is the speakers of shit. Turned as high as they go, they are audible only when you have no other sounds around you. Headphones do not help much either. A little more volume from these speakers and I would have given this 5 stars netbook instead of 4.
Source : http://www.bestnetbooksbuy.com
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