Asus Netbook - 1000HD-BKBB1 @ Best Buy !?!?

Anyone know anything about this Best Buy version of the 1000HD?


It seems a unique configuration from what I have read on the Asus website and product reviews. Myabe the Best Buy details are not correct.

From our expanded online assortment; not available in all Best Buy stores

Intel® Celeron® processor 353
Features a 400MHz frontside bus, 512KB L2 cache and 900MHz processor speed.

1GB DDR2 SoDIMM memory
10" WSVGA widescreen LED display
120GB Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm) 120 not 160?
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900 graphics
Built-in media reader
3 high-speed USB 2.0 ports
Built-in high-speed wireless LAN (802.11b/g) No N?
10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN (with RJ-45 connector)
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition operating system preinstalled

 

There are HD's floating around.

It's a stripped down version if you google it.

For starters, the CPU is a Dothan based Celeron. I'm not really sure what that amounts to in terms of power consumption and speed.

It's up to you if the price difference is worth it. For me, I'd pony up a few more bucks to get a standard 1000H.

 

The difference on the HD and the H is the no wireless N and no Bluetooth, and the cpu change.

The Best Buy Version looks like in addition cut the HDD size.

For "only" $100 less definitively not worth it in my opinion.

Well in my case most definitely not worth it since I require bluetooth and long battery life. I can care less about the smaller hdd since I upgraded mine, and also do not use wireless N

I do however see it having a place on the market, the idea of these netbooks is to be ultra cheap so that almost anybody could have one, $100 less means a lot if you were say buying this for a kid or something that really does not need all the features.

 

Hmm. I am trying to decide. I have $200 in best buy gift cards and reward zone points. That would make this system very cheap.

It seems strange to use the 1000HD number with the specs on the Asus main site being so different. Somewhat annoying...

Anyone here seen one in person?

 

Hmm.

In your scenario, that just might be worth it unless you foresee yourself needing that gift card at a later date?

If you're undecided, why don't you just wait? If you're like most of us, this is a "toy" to surf web with while at a sports bar (fantasy football ftw!) or laying out by the pool. If you don't "need" it, wait 'til the right deal for you comes along.

 

LOL! Yup it’s another Toy. I love those hot wings and wireless internet. I don't sit out by the pool too often.

I wish best buy sold the Acer One which is my favorite 8.9" system or recently I have been excited about the Lonovo S10 for a 10" system.

I had an Acer One 8.9" 12GHDD version but sold it, I was offered good $$$ from a friend that was in town for 4 days (he lives in Ukraine) and wanted the system real bad.. So what can ya do...

Since then I have been looking for something new. I actually got a Dell Mini 9 and have upgraded it to a 32GB SSD and 2GB memory. It's a sweet system, except for the funky keyboard layout. I have not see a 10" PC and would like to check it out, so I was thinking the BB Deal is good for me since it's cheap $379 and I have those gift cards.

I don't need another laptop, I have 2 Macs that when I need some good computing power, I use them and of the obligatory gaming pc...

Hmm, decisions! Decisions....

 

I have the powerful G50V-A1 and a EEE 1000H and I use the EEE more and like it more. The only thing I use the G50V for over the EEE is video editing and photo editing lol.

Of course games too if I played any but the only ones I play right now are snes emulation and things and I do that on the EEE too.

It may seem toy like but this is a very capable machine and it just has an incredible charm to it.

I have already decked mine out (the 1000H) with a gps receiver and used that today coming home from work, a 250gb HDD so it has my music & movie collection on it, and 2gb of ram.

Plus all the tweaking and stuff.

Im starting to see the same concept I use with cameras apply to notebooks.

I tell those guys with the $5000 Digital SLR's that it does not matter how good your equipment is, if you cant take a picture with it its worthless.

Or I may phrase it differently, like a point & shoot is more valuable than the expensive SLR because any photo is better than no photo and the best photo's are often the ones that just "pop up" rather than when you plan it.

Thats why I love my little fujifilm finepix F30, it goes with me everywhere and I would never miss a picture I need to take.

Now I see that happening with the EEE 1000H I have, its got nothing on the power of my G50V or desktop but since it can go with me everywhere all the time it can actually do so much more.

At work last night instead of having half my desk taken over by the G50V just to listen to music while I work the EEE was doing it and the speakers on this thing are loud & clear too very surprising.

I very much look forward to the evolution of the "netbook" to a dual core cpu and a higher res screen while keeping the size the same. I will definitely want one.

 

That's a very nice post.

 

I agree with everything you said. I think my use of the word toy is a little out of context.

When I mean "toy", I mean it's an item that I can live without. I have a 13.3" Sony SZ laptop that has scarcely left it's nest on top of my dresser. It's supposedly a portable sized notebook but there's a level of ease of use that no normal notebook can match compared to a netbook.

In terms of portable use, I guess we each have to ask ourselves what we use it for. I've owned 17.1" gaming machines etc, etc but in terms of taking a laptop and using it on the go, nothing fits the bill like a netbook. It plays my mp3 collection, surfs the web admirably, can do Office Docs in a pinch. However, to me it's still a toy (and it's purely a semantics issue). I wouldn't "want" to work on a spreadsheet on a 8.9" screen for the same reason why I don't send out huge emails on my Blackberry. They both can, but it's not ideal.

 

what ?!?!?!

 

I need to check the version I have at Home, I can't recall if it had a camera. I really don't know...

 

alll 1000 have cameras. the 1000hd has less battery life marked at 5.4 hours. no bluetooth no wireless N. it is also running on the celeron processor, 160 gb hd and 10gb internet storage

 

no check bestbuy website
they say it clearly NO webcam
even in the picture

 

I purchased this model at my local best buy. I actually saw the flier in the store that they were only $379 WITH xp installed. Most netbooks at this price point come with linux only it seems.

No SSD of course, but i didnt care at the time because of the price. I actually skipped out on netbooks for a year or so because of the small screen and small keyboard.

This unit skimps in features to get to the 379 price, so it's really not much of a sale, but to me it's just fine.

It has NO webcam. It's blocked off. I did not need that. The hard drive is a seagate momentus 5400rpm drive. In hdtune it tests at an average read of 46mb/sec. That's faster than my main notebook's crappy fujitsu sata drive.

The keyboard works great and ive not skipped or misspalt many words. The only annoying thing is that the shift key is hard to reach when touch typing.

The absolute worst thing though is that the touchpad buttons are extremely stiff. They need a lot of pressure and it's so annoying that i hooked up an external logitech vx revolution mouse. PERFECT combination for this i think. First wireless mouse ive had with not much lag. Might replace my main desktops mouse with one since i like smaller mice usually.

So far it's a nice netbook. I might keep it if everything goes ok. It's all i need really. It also does not have the intel gma 950 graphics chipset, but a lower numbered version. Not sure of the difference yet. I'll never play games on it though.

So glad i got this. Can't beat the price..

Anything left out that im missing? Hope not!

 

LOL

Thanks for the impressions on the note (net?) book.

 

Haha I tried to do some H.264 encoding on this thing today for "fun". Bad idea. 4+ hours for two pass, but Xvid would be twice as fast though. No surprise here. CPU at 100% with handbrake at only "Normal" priority.

So far I like this thing so much that I upgraded to 2gb of ram and....a 7200rpm drive. No, I don't care about battery life of course! It's too bad the bestbuy version has only a 4-cell battery. With cpu at 100% during encoding at full charge it said I had about 2 hours and 20 minutes of battery left. Eww. That's with the "super performance" setting.

I still can't believe that this hard drive is faster than my $1200 laptop's drive. Fujitsu SATA laptop drives are soooo slow.

Wifi went down a few times, but i'm hoping that the wireless drivers I downloaded will fix this. Possibly caused by my new wireless mouse, but i'm not sure yet.

Handbrake will also not run unless I switch to something higher than it's default resolution. Kind of funny since i'm not used to 1024x600 or whatever it is.

No, I wasn't expecting 1-2 hour encodes. My q6600 desktop can't always even do that.

Next i'll install glquake and see how that goes. Not expecting even Half Life 2 to run on this, but that'd be funny if it did. Maybe it will.