It is such that the fan is permanently running, you can hear pretty much in a quiet room. In addition, the hard drive that you perceive on the one hand as a permanent operating noise, on the other hand even as louder "Click" what you hear about every second, and a sound that can be described somewhat as one of the Windows-warning sounds and about every 20 40 seconds occurs (sounds like a "Plong"). So overall very disturbing, and we perceive these things no longer as strong, if you're not in a very quiet room.
For all of these sources of noise there Abhile but ATTENTION, these are not official software, but your private TOOLS, it might be so that a case the guarantee flutes goes, all at your own risk. For the fan you can download eeectl, where you absolutely have to make sure to use a config for the 1000HE. For this simple config "config eeectrl 1000HE" googling times after. This makes it easy to adapt, that the fan starts only from 50 degrees and below is very silent, which is almost permanently is the case with me. As is ever tidy quiet again.
Then the drive is off. With "quietHDD", a tool that was originally written in its old version for one of the first Eee PC, you're gonna get the blades and the "Plong" away (clicking comes from power-saving settings, it anything is written to disk or so every second , and the "Plong" is parking the hard drive head, also as an economy measure If you disable this, one has of course a slightly increased risk of head crashes and a slightly increased battery drain, but you have the power not whirl;.)).
What remains is then a faint noise of the hard disk, which now however is no longer disruptive and is only very discreetly to hear even in a very quiet room.
From the noise fro the 1000HE is therefore in the initial state clearly disappointing. If you value quiet operation, one is better off with a Samsung NC10, the even extra offers a silent mode. There, the keyboard is again a bit better than the 1000HE, the arrangement of the keys has been changed slightly in NC10, which is likely to annoy 10-finger typists (in particular the right shift key, which is located in the German layout too far right) , The keyboard of the 1000HE has in return, although the correct placement and is more appropriate, but the typing experience is here significantly "cheaper" than the NC10, the keyboard flexes slightly and she rattles slightly, but overall leaves it for 10-finger typists forward quite decent touch, and the typing noise is quieter than with a NC10.
The battery lasts a long time, so who worked very sparingly, he'll come on for 8 hours when WLAN and Bluetooth off and the brightness shuts down.
Oh yes, very important: the supplied bag is a bad joke. It is a cheap cloth bag that subjectively very unpleasant to the touch and is clearly too large. Both in width and in height one has about two fingers wide game, so that the device in your pocket now and herwackelt and you can not loose grab the bag from the top with one hand, but to pack so tightly, in order for the device innendrin not "wegflutscht". Again, the included bag of NC10 worlds better, even if it is thin, but it is smaller and fits exactly.
Conclusion: Lousy sound effects, but which can be solved with some effort on your own risk. Lousy pocket. For but a very good value for money, long battery life, ordinary keyboard. Despite the shortcomings, I would certainly say in principle a recommendation to buy, because, as you could already read in other reviews, the 1000HE offers simply the best "bang for your buck", but when I stood again before the election, I would at my Präferez a but then grab quiet soundscape and a high quality finish to a rather NC10 or one of his successors. Whoever it does not interfere, with the 1000HE gets a great netbook, which hardly leaves a wish otherwise open and one of the best netbooks, which can be found today.
