Comments on: ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Arrives Boasting a New Keyboard and Intel Atom N280 Processor

By: hootoo

hootoo — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:13:19 +0000

Wow why ASUS sells it at $500 here, I once planned to buy it, but it’s way much too expensive, really angry, what the hell is ASUS doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Kari

Kari — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:56:26 +0000

# ROSCOE Says:
March 13th, 2009 at 10:34 am

I ALSO UPGRADED TO 2GB RAM. HAD TO USE RESET HOLE AND THEN HIT F2. BACK UP IMPORTANT JUST IN CASE.

By: star adapter

star adapter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:57:53 +0000

How do I get into the BIOS on this machine?

By: t1ixsi

t1ixsi — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:06:21 +0000

10 inch and 9.5 hours Rated Charge is nice

By: Dr. K

Dr. K — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:37:09 +0000

After over a month with the 1000HE, I find myself going back to my Aspire One. The keyboard is nearly impossible to type on. The right shift key is too narrow, causing me to hit the adjacent up arrow key over half the time. Also, for a netbook this device is almost as heavy as a regular notebook.

On the plus side, EEEUbuntu installed with no troubles and seems very stable.

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:06:04 +0000

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this works well

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:00:36 +0000

John,

I’m curious. With all the power-saving features enabled, how much extra battery life do you get after installing a solid state drive on your Eee 1000 HE?

By: Bryan S

Bryan S — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:19:50 +0000

I own one of these, and it’s great. A bit jerky with full screen Hulu videos at times, but livable.

Note, however, that the 667 Bus speed on this netbook is ONLY on the CPU side. The memory bus is STILL LIMITED TO 533 MHz! That’s because of the 945GSE chipset that’s used in this version. It’s really not that big a deal, but it’s a fact nonetheless.

By: John

John — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:02:05 +0000

You can definitely boot from an external USB device. I bought mine with a 2 Gb memory DIMM to replace the internal 1 Gb of RAM, an external USB CD/DVD drive (a tiny thing barely the size of a CD jewel case), and a Corsair 128 Gb SSD. When everything arrived, I popped open the bottom of the unit, swapped DIMM modules and swapped out the SATA hard drive for the SATA SSD drive. Buttoned everything up, plugged in the USB DVD drive, and put in the restore DVD. Turned it on, and with almost no other interaction on my part, it booted from the external DVD, found the blank SSD, partitioned it, formatted it, loaded all the standard software onto it. I then removed the restore DVD from the drive, restarted the netbook, and it booted from the SSD just like it had previously booted from the hard drive (except faster).

The Corsair SSD is the best value I have found so far in terms of price, storage size, and high performance. And the total silence during disk access is eerie. I’ve already managed to accidentally drop the netbook about 3 feet (one meter) onto a carpeeted floor, and was glad that the mechanical hard drive was already swapped out for the (shockproof) SSD.

I really like this little guy, for those times when it is appropriate. I still have and love my huge HP Pavillion ZD8000 (desktop computer in a 17″ notebook disguise) when I want maximum processing power and/or maximum screen size in a portable computer, and I still use my Samsung Instinct touchscreen cellphone (vaguely resembles an Apple iPhone) for net browsing with a device that fits in my pocket, but the size and weight of the Asus eee PC-1000HE falls in a much sweeter spot for most casual net surfing and mobile computing. I love it and won’t give it up!

By: ROSCOE

ROSCOE — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:34:34 +0000

I ALSO UPGRADED TO 2GB RAM. HAD TO USE RESET HOLE AND THEN HIT F2. BACK UP IMPORTANT JUST IN CASE.