Screen Size:
10.1 inches
Memory:
1 GB
Hard Drive Size:
160 GB
Touchpad
7
Show what experts say (6 reviews)
"Though it's not the first on a laptop, the gesture-based touchpad is a first on a netbook. With two fingers, for instance, you can scroll up and down, while you can right-click using three fingers. The buttons produce faint clicking noises, so they're not as quiet as the Dell Inspiron Mini 12's."
"The touchpad is much better than the one on the bargain basement Acer Aspire One, with a relatively large surface and big brushed-metal buttons."
"The trackpad is less impressive [than the redesigned keyboard]. The pad and the pair of accompanying buttons are of a good size, but the former feels too sticky and unresponsive for our liking, and the latter are stiff and difficult to press."
"The trackpad is just spacious enough -- I particularly like its metal framing and the few multitouch functions incorporated into the design. However, I found the pad slightly twitchy to control. No deal-breaker, but I noticed."
"We also really swooned over the 1000HE's roomy trackpad (yes the trackpad) and its two lovely buttons. Features like two-finger scrolling and zooming, give us comfy, precise control when navigating through XP menus."
"The 1000HE borrows the same touchpad and mouse buttons from the 1000H, which is a good thing. This touchpad is positively huge compared to those of other netbooks, and its nice textured made it easy to control the cursor."
Keyboard
7
Show what experts say (7 reviews)
"It's a much-improved typing experience, and tied with the HP Mini 1000 as our favorite Netbook keyboard.... Important keys, such as the right Shift key, have been relocated to a more logical position than on earlier Eee PC keyboards."
"Typing on a keyboard of this size should be a painless adjustment."
"As for the keys themselves, they do have that familiar slightly shallow feel typical of isolated keyboards, which may put off some people, but key response is crisp and positive and the new layout makes for fewer errors when typing."
"The new Sony/Macbook style keyboard that ASUS has switched to for the 1000HE is a huge improvement in terms of ease of typing and tactile feel. The keys don’t feel as cramped since there is more space between them and even the key action feels smoother than before."
"Don't get us wrong, we found things to hate on the 1000HE too. Like the keyboard! Sure, it's decently sized, but the keys are extremely flat, making touch-typing extremely difficult."
"[The keyboard is] 92 percent of full-size, just like the 1000H, but the new model uses a MacBook-like, Chiclet-style keyboard."
"The separated keys meant that we hitting neighbouring letters was an infrequent occurrence and each has a positive action with a decent amount of travel too. Though this is on the light side, after the usual period spent acclimatising to a smaller keyboard we found the latest Eee perfectly satisfying to use."
Build Quality
10
Show what experts say (2 reviews)
"Build quality is very good with strong, durable plastics used throughout the body that help keep panels flex-free and the creaks to a minimum."
"The chassis does feel sturdy enough to take the abuse of a daily commute."
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Speed show formula
To determine a netbook's effectiveness at multitasking, we combine the processor speed, with the memory size, and add in a bonus if a netbook has an SSD hard drive.
(processor speed x 2) + memory size + ssd support
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