Received the 1001p yesterday. Surface is lovely, matt and grippy. Drive is already partitioned (yay!) in a C: drive with 8 GB used and about 72 GB free and a D: drive with about 70 GB free. There's a hidden restore partition somewhere I suppose, but it's not mentioned anywhere. It's astonishinly ill documented. There's lots of ASUS special software on it and it says nowhere what does what. (read, what uselessness I can kick and what to keep) There's no CD with it, and no online manual. In fact, the entire machine isn't mentioned on the ASUS website, but you can find it on the (dedicated) ASUS-support-site. After cleaning up Windows (kicking the trialversions and such) I wanted to make a backup using the internal backupsolution (Ghost). In the manual the backup takes up about one paragraph, mentioning externel drives or USB-sticks, but upon starting it asks nothing but it promptly reinstalled everything without asking from a hidden drive. It doesn't seem too infested with trialversions, Office 60days, trust virusscan trial and something called boingo wireless. Kicked all. Still to kick: Windows Live and IM Messenger (yes they're both on) and some of the ASUS stuff. Installed AVG and Firefox portable, still need a better pictureviewer (why windows picture viewer can't do proper fullscreen is beyond me), and an alternative to Mediaplayer 11 (which promptly registered me and kindly wanted to verify if everything on the (still naked) PC is properly DRM'd) (must-Kill!!!) Microsoft needed about 30mins for a .NET update, and the adobe reader updatet for about 20 mins (whatever for, it`s not that big) Summary: deinstalled trial versions, put on AVG, updated everything and connected to WLAN. Result: windows boot time doubled. Was about 45sec. before, so still okay-ish I've been toying with it for about four hours with lots of restarts and the battery is at about 60% still, so that's great. Tochpad is Multitouch, which is great, but with my fingersize Multitouch isn't that eay. So I see a small wireless mouse appering in the near future. Skype works great, the mikofone is good and the camera has very little lag. The ASUS "Expressgate" quicklaunch linux is a bit of a letdown, especially because it's reduces the screen resolution from 1024x600 to 800x600 then stretched back to 1024x600. Looks awful. On the support website, I found a 1001p BIOS update (although it's not dokumented, so I don't know how to put it on) which upon download turns out to be the 1005p's BIOS (maybe they're the same?) All in all, quite happy with it, looking forward to continue toying with it today.
I always though that anything with a screen larger than 9'' goes beyond what I define as a "netbook", that's why I still use my EEE PC 901. Have fun though
Thx! Yeah, the screen has some room, I guess the 11" screen would fit the same casing. I wanted at least 1024 pixels width, and the keyboard is pretty usable for my fingers.
