Positive:
- 100% compatible with Ubuntu (apart from FN combo brightness control)
- Matte screen / LED technology -> extremely bright + Power-Saving
- NO piano lacquer surface, neither outside nor inside!
- Very good keyboard (large enough pressure point ok)
- N450 processor supports 64-bit systems
- 3 USB slots, quite sufficient for a netbook
- Long battery life (more on that below)
- Nice, unobtrusive and simple design (what there is in netbooks so rare)
Negatives:
- Touchpad is writing not only known to be a hindrance, it is particularly sensitive to inadvertent touches and then selects example. random from anything. The problem is familiar to anyone in this netbook that occurs, however, unusually often!
- At the red edge on the front is a sharp plastic edge which is very annoying and does not match the positive overall picture.
- A keyboard illumination whether background or LED on the lid would have been very nice.
The Netbook is in regard price performance / matte display / no Design sin / long battery life yet in my opinion the best choice.
I run it with Ubuntu Studio 64 bit (2GB RAM), because I do not see before, to use Windows 7 Starter, where I can not even change the background image. Belongs Despite the Ubuntu Studio to the resource-intensive Ensten operating systems, everything runs smoothly. HD videos can not (even in WIN7) play always, often jerky, even in the example video.
To "10-hour battery life" is to say that the battery is 48.8 watt hours and requires the netbook in active use (video, surfing, office) in brightness in the upper third parties about 10W. It follows five hours effective battery life, maybe 6, unless you do on the lowest screen brightness garnix and clocks the processor at 1GHZ, then come back 10 hours certainly.
