Flyingbrix. I use a HP tx2000 series laptop. 12" screen so not exactly mini but much smaller than most laptops.
mine runs lightroom and Photoshop no probs, even with external monitor added. nicest thing is the Wacom powered touch screen.
Battery life with stock battery is not great ans screeb colours are less then amazing though. But I love this little beast.
I use an Asus 1000HE. Handles most desktop functions just fine. Note that the desktop res is 1024x600...lots of programs need somethingx768 or higher in order to run. You can run a higher res, but you'll be scrolling all over the place
HerbChong obviously hasn't used the newer models. The HE's keyboard is "springy" but large enough; I can palm a basketball, and I have no problems typing on it. Battery life is 7+ hours with normal usage, probably 5-6 if you keep wifi on while playing a DVD.
For $350, it was a no-brainer for me. It performs the functions I need; it fits in every backpack/case I own; it's cheap enough that if I trash it, it's no big loss.
I have a Asus EEE pc 1000H, and for what it is, its great. I only really use it for surfing, but I have a portable copy of PS3 on a USB stick and it works quite well.
The pc has a Intel Atom processor and 1 gig of RAM, so its not blazing fast, but enough to handle most things. It also has wireless n, which is a bonus.
Yes the keyboard is quite small, but it doesnt take long to get used to. The battery life is good, although not quite up to the quoted figures when in real world use.
Its light and easy to carry around, and looks smart in White too.
It runs Windows XP smoothly and has good power controls to adapt to what you are doing in regards to power/performance.
The only major downside is it has no cd/DVD player
if you look at the date of the thread msgs, you would see that the 1000 series machines were just shipping in Japan when i posted. this is an old thread.
Herb...
homersapien wrote:
I use an Asus 1000HE. Handles most desktop functions just fine. Note that the desktop res is 1024x600...lots of programs need somethingx768 or higher in order to run. You can run a higher res, but you'll be scrolling all over the place
I have an eee 1002 but Ive also had the 701 and 901.
If you want internet and email and small the 901s are great. Typing does take a little bit to get used too but its easy once your used to it. The 1002 is a hair bigger but a fuller keyboard. Its my favorite out of all. I run windows and linux on mine (XP is faster then Ubuntu and Xandros. I havent tried any other distros). I love the eeePC though. Ive also used the MSI Wind but Im not too keen on it.
A friend of mine has a 901 (with Windows; he installed a Mandriva too, and mostly everything works). He is *very* happy with the battery life (about 8 hours of work). Keyboard and screen are ok for him. I tried it a little bit, and the keyboard would be too small for me though. For this, I think the only solution is to test it by yourself. Among the netbooks, I found the HP Mini to have a pretty nice keyboard, but I do not know about the other aspects.
I'm using a comparable machine... the Dell Mini9. And I love it! I actually have two, because I wanted to order a spare battery and a second ac adaptor and the price came to more than half of what the whole computer sells for! So I bought the second machine. I also got ram and SSD upgrades from another supplier so now the machines have 2gb ram and 32mb storage. When I need extra storage (like for off-loading photos from my cards) I have a couple of USB 250gb drives that I just hook up.
Rob Galbraith did a review of screens recently and he uses a Mini9 as well. I wouldn't dream of installing PS on it, but for what it's designed for, it's a pretty great machine. Check it out.
HerbChong wrote:
battery life is not good. screen is also acceptable at best. keyboard is barely usable if you are used to typing on a full sized keyboard. your fingers go to the wrong places. the 700 series are slow. the 900 series is faster, but still not fast. i use mine for a short distance travel prepared slideshow viewer and that is all.
Herb...
I just bought a ASUS 1000HE it is really nice got it for $350 and it has 7-9 hour battery life and 10" screen. I have Adobe Lightroom 2 on it as well. This is going to be an excellent lightweight and compact travel laptop for me. No you can not do hardcore editing on it due to screen size but it is large enough to organize your pics while traveling and to load them off the memory card. Why would you want to do hardcore editing on vacation anyway?
I will be using it for a NYC trip next week and a long trip to Yellowstone this summer.
most of my vacations are shooting vacations and i want to do a good portion of my editing in the field. that means that i always take the full sized computer. is for commuting and that means both keyboard and screen size matter and i paid for it.
I got the 1000HA back in Janaury. It is a great little netbook. I use it all the time around the house, especially when I have to watch my 1yr old son. Much lighter to carry around, meet clients and on vacation. (i also have a Macbook - but my wife use that mostly)
for sure it is not for heaving editing and processing. I do have Lightroom and PS installed. the speed isnt too bad.
I have the Lenovo S10, which is the Atom 1.6 (N270) 160gb disk, 1 gb memory running XP.
It now has 2gb memory, a 500gb disk and a 6 cell battery (eBay) and runs Vista 32 fine, although you tend to limt running one program at a time. Normal use I get 4-6 hours out of it
The limitation in resolution means you can't run some programs (like DPP) and I wouldn't try Adobe, but for BreezeBrowser and DownLoad Pro its fine, and Outlook and Word, and a 3G CardBus modem ... and it weighs nothing, and it costs nothing ...
The next versions about to be released have the Atom 1.66g chip (N280), which is marginally faster, but uses a lot less power, and they are claiming up to 9 hours on the bigger battery.
I'm looking to buy a 1000HE, but the annoying thing is I'm in Europe, which automaticly makes it insanely expensive compared to the US.
You pay $380, we pay ¤380...our 380 equals $500, a $120 difference, which makes it as expensive as a 15" laptop with 3x the power.
But hey, I want one so I'm sure I'll fork that over soon enough, just like I did with everything else that's 33% more expensive over here.
