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ASUS EEE PC 1001P Black Netbook Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2010-04-20
so today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of Anna soos Tripoli netbook I actually have been doing videos on a soos netbook since the very first one but this is a far more modern model so why don't we have a quick look at the specs before we open this thing up first of all this is a brown box it's pretty plain looking they've got their EPC slogan easy to learn work and play so that was what the e was all about easy easy easy ok and then over on the side here you can see this is the 1001 P model so that means that it has kind of a carbon fiber finish because we do have the black one and it also has an 11 hour battery for us uses all-day computing brands okay so I've got a seal here and I've had a few people complain that I always come unprepared with no knife so today I have my knife ready in advance so I'm just gonna open this up there we go you happy there big box is open maybe we should just kind of pry this stuff out of here and yeah there we go ok so this is what a knight can do for you folks and you can unbox things all day yes ok so the first thing we find inside is the assist triple EPC warranty cart which basically is going to tell us I'm assuming about the warranty so you want to fill in your in information form warranty conditions so 12 months means 12 months and 24 means 24 months ok that's good useful information thank you a soos all right inside you will find some more accessories the first thing we will find is a battery so this is an 11 hour battery so that means it's probably a 6 tumbler Neitzel right I actually don't know how many cells it is and I'm not gonna try and guess so it is a 10.8 volt battery and it is rated for 4400 milliamp hours ok the next thing we find is a battery notice so please notice about this battery something which we will find out please notice that do not dispose of in fire okay never attempt short-circuiting never attempt to disassemble and assemble do not continue usage if leakage is found and must be recycled or disposed of properly okay I'm glad we noticed all of that next we will have the AC adapter which comes with a handy little cable management thingy here and then we have the power cord that plugs into the other end of the AC adapter with also a convenient power management cable management and either power management stupid okay so then you can use that tie it up here should you so desire and then your cats wouldn't you don't eat it hopefully I've actually already lost a pair of Sennheiser HD 350 or PC 350 headphones or headset to my new cats very sad so suppose to show you cats are good but they also destroy things next we have the user's manual a soos is devoted to creating environmentally friendly products and packages yeah actually this is something that I've pointed out on a couple of Sue's products I've unboxed you see it's all plain cardboard internals protecting there's no there's no styrofoam for the most part which is really good because styrofoam it never breaks down as far as we know okay top side transportation precautions charging your batteries so this gives you some basics of how to use your new Tripoli PC and then this is a lot of really small print okay why don't we have a look at the actual notebook itself I'm gonna go ahead and plug in the battery as part of the whole introduction that's nice so there is the carbon fiber esque finish that I was talking about before a cameraman are you getting a good angle on this so that you can kind of see the way it the way it changes how it looks depending which angle you're looking at it from which is really nice so they've got a nice silver Asus logo recessed into the top here that looks really really sharp so when you're using this thing you'll look like you can go faster because your notebook is is lighter weight and the other guys it's got a carbon-fiber hood yeah okay so then why don't we have a look at the bottom of the notebook next so that's where the battery is gonna plug in you can see the battery is actually quite a large amount of the internal space of a network just because it's all about that long computing experience so in order to make a little bit more room for the battery asus has put slightly larger rubber pads on the back of it so that it's a little bit lean towards you when you're using it which makes for typing to be a little bit more comfortable as well so that's a really nice design touch right there keyboard itself why don't you have a look at that this is one of the better netbook keyboards I have seen you can see there's almost no flex to it when I put pressure on it and the keys actually depress quite far so you get good tactile feedback from these keys I mean one of the biggest problems with a netbook is that it's hard to tell if you're even hitting the key the right key sometimes they've also done nothing stupid as far as the keyboard layout goes because with a netbook you do have some design limitations so if you want to work in multilingual support or anything like that you start having to do weird things like cut the shift key short or cut the backspace key short but you can see that we have two full-size shift keys a full-sized Enter key and a full-size backspace key that is so critical for this kind of a machine okay why don't we have let me take off all the plastic key bits here so we've got a nice glossy black bezel around the screen and then typical Asus high quality screen is what I would expect to find but obviously it's not on yet why don't we talk about the specs I haven't even I haven't even touched on the specs of this particular netbook at all at this time so I'm just gonna read off here so it uses the atom and 450 so that's the latest Atom processor and the reason that it's more power savings is actually nothing to do with the processor itself I mean a little tiny bit but the original atom was also very efficient it comes down to the chipset that controls the Atom processor being much much more efficient with this latest generation it's got 1 gig of ram one gig one gig of ram a 160 gig drive 10.1 inch screen it has a web and it comes with Windows 7 starter so you can see the little Windows 7 starter actually it looks like a soos also knows that this is one of the best keyboards they've produced for a netbook it talks about it right there ergonomic keyboard unsurpassed comfort and I think they'd really hit the nail on the head with that one so why don't we have a look at all of the connectivity I'm expecting it to be exactly the same as every other netbook on the market so first we have Gigabit Ethernet two USB ports microphone headphones and a SD card reader then around the front we have nothing except some air flow events around the other side we will find yes exactly what I was expecting one more USB port Kensington lock VGA out and then power in we've also got a little ventilation hole here although the fan on this thing is very very very quiet that's not gonna bother you even in a in a very quiet setting it looks like it's gonna take a little while to get booted up here so I think that pretty much covers everything that we can say about this this Tripoli I don't know one more thing it has a reasonable sized touchpad thank you this is one of my biggest complaints about most of the early generation netbooks is that the touch pads were either not big enough or not the same shape as the screen so it's got a proper widescreen touchpad with a nice glossy chromed two-button Mouse right there so that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 1001 P from a soos
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