I bought this great netbook as a replacement for my old notebook. I use it mainly for
- Surfing the web,
- Emails,
- Simple office applications,
- Photo and MP3 Management,
- General file management.
So much in advance: For these tasks, it is ideally suited and equipped. More extensive and intensive computing multimedia applications (video editing, home recording, current games) are likely to find here their limits. But I think, for such a thing creates you look at eh no netbook.
The advantages of the netbook in my opinion are:
- Perfect workmanship
- Matt, non reflective screen in good quality LED LCD (very bright, - natural color reproduction, great contrast)
- For my taste despite the compact size is easy to handle keyboard in really good quality
- Sufficiently large and well-reacting touch pad
- Various connection options
- Long battery life (after several charging cycles to get at an average load and full brightness 'see below for more' good 6 to 7 hours)
- Current Atom dual-core processor with good energy and performance
- Large hard drive
- Compact dimensions; stylish / chic housing
- Very low noise; Fan starts with me so far rarely, and if so, then it is not overly loud
The advantages of bringing a course only slightly when a stable running operating system is installed on the netbook. I can only recommend because of the price savings and the larger RAM each, to take up the version without Windows, assuming you already have an operating system, and knows how to those installed on a USB stick.
Pre-installed Linux system (Linpus Linux) is no graphical user interface, which is probably useless for Thermal 99.9% of all potential users. Honestly, the purpose of this pre-installation does not reveal me. This should have been in my opinion can also save. ' I installed a "modern" Linux operating system (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). As I said, you should have been informed in advance how to set up a USB flash drive as a boot medium and how to install an operating system on a USB stick. Since it may have a few hurdles to give (eg not working any USB drive). As a complete computer novice it could ever be fiddly to frustrating here. So care! Installing Ubuntu went smoothly. Only one driver for the WLAN module had to be installed, then worked also like clockwork. Overall, the hardware detection on Ubuntu prima worked. Only two points depend (yet?)
- Because the Intel chip is still very new, there's no matching Linux driver. Consequently, it can not reduce the display brightness (yet).
- The internal SD card reader is not recognized (for me) of Ubuntu 10.04. This could possibly with the forthcoming update to 12:04. Change LTS again
As I read, in the Windows installation considerably more manual effort is required, but it will eventually work well.
The working speed under Ubuntu 10.04 is felt (I have not measured it) fantastic. All applications respond promptly, the load times are generally short, the whole system feels 'soft' on. I'm very satisfied! Test, I as a live system have had the slimmer Lubuntu run 11:10 'because it seems to me the whole system again felt a shovel to put on it'.!
Conclusion:
A truly amazing device with excellent, modern performance. You have to know what you want to do with it (so) stop. For Zocken current games and the real-time rendering of video in HD quality, the netbook is certainly not designed. But inasmuch as you would for the applications described by me committed, there's a strong buy recommendation from me and 5 star.
The only restriction (without star deduction): EDP layman could when installing an operating system (whether Windows or Linux) may need help from a USB stick.
