ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1001PX-EU2X-BK 10.1-Inch Netbook (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great little netbook. It's very attractive, light, and performs well. I can watch movies on it and obviously browse the web and other stuff. Anything you want from a netbook. The keyboard is very nicely sized and intelligently laid-out (it's actually the best laptop keyboard I've used ever). The touchpad is pretty big and works well. It also has multitouch features, if you are into those. I don't use them much, except to use two fingers to scroll. It runs XP, which I guess is good. Like many people I'm resisting the pressure to upgrade to vista or windows 7. The wifi is pretty good and seems to have a good range.
I give it four stars because the battery life is only rated at 4 hours and I'm not sure it's even that long in practice. That's much shorter than the average for a netbook, even in this price range. I didn't notice that when I bought it. Maybe I'll be able to get a replacement battery with longer life. This was really the only significant disappointment.
Other weaknesses of this product: the speaker is pretty good for a netbook, but it is located on the bottom of the machine, so it gets muffled in your lap or whatever you put it on. If you tilt it up it sounds a lot better. I think that's pretty common in netbooks, so it's not actually specific to this machine. Also, the screen only opens to 120 degrees or something. This is more than adequate when it's sitting on a surface and you are sitting up, but when I am lying in bed propping it up with my knees, I often wish it would open a few more degrees. It's a very small complaint.
It comes with a ton of bloatware, as all big name machines do. I spent a bit of time the first day removing it and everything has worked better since then. Clean and tidy. And I like how it has a backup of the operating system on a separate partition (it doesn't come with an actual backup disk per se...). Again, that's extremely common these days.
Basically there are no ugly surprises with this machine, so I recommend it, but even better would be a very similar machine with one of the 8 hour batteries.

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