{"id":1469,"date":"2009-04-24T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2009-04-24T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:51:08","slug":"asus-eeepc-1000he-and-the-windows-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/24\/asus-eeepc-1000he-and-the-windows-journey","title":{"rendered":"Asus EeePC 1000HE, and The Windows Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=colincharles-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B001QTXL82&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nI recently became the proud owner of an Asus EeePC 1000HE. It claims to boast a 9.5 hour battery life, comes with a 160GB hard disk, a 10&#8243; screen, a modern keyboard that is about 92% full sized, as well as more sensible Shift key locations. Compared to the first generation EeePC 701 that I have, this is by far, a much better machine.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, it also comes preloaded with Microsoft Windows XP Home. Part of me writing this, is to log the fact that I am going to try and use Microsoft Windows, and report back if its even usable. It turns out, that the battery life is supposed to be better when you&#8217;re using Windows, as opposed to switching to Linux. So let&#8217;s see how long this flirtation lasts, before I decide its time to install Linux.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The build quality seems to be quite high. Its black in colour, but the issue there is that it loves getting fingerprint smudges &#8212; so after a while, cosmetically, it looks rather dirty. It comes with an SD\/MMC slot, which can be useful with consumer cameras and video cameras, though all the little video cameras I&#8217;ve been experimenting with come with a USB slot. It has 3 USB ports. Holding conversations with the built-in speaker and microphone, seem to work well too, so no complaints there. At some stage, maybe I should try recording a podcast &#8220;on the go&#8221;. The 1024&#215;600 resolution is great &#8212; its hard to read and do anything with just 800&#215;480. <\/p>\n<h3>Windows First Impressions<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not used Windows on a desktop, since Windows 3.1. Nowadays, at most, I use it in a VM, because I need it for testing. But in these last few days, I&#8217;ve been occassionally using Windows, and its been an experience.<\/p>\n<p>First up, I ran Windows Update. Then I installed the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avast.com\/\">Avast!<\/a> &#8211; this is for anti-virus protection. I used to normally install AVG-Free on Windows machines that I came into contact with, but it seems that Avast! is all that and more. So far, it seems to be getting virus definition files updated almost daily.<\/li>\n<li>Firefox, and the Flash Plugin &#8211; just because<\/li>\n<li>Evernote<\/li>\n<li>Google Chroome &#8211; not essential, but I&#8217;ve always wanted to give it a try, ever since it was announced.<\/li>\n<li>PuTTY &#8211; its crucial for SSH access, which seems to at least give me a semblance of what I&#8217;m familiar with<\/li>\n<li>Dropbox &#8211; now my files are synced across my Linux and Mac boxes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notepad-plus.sourceforge.net\/uk\/site.htm\">Notepad++<\/a> &#8211; On Linux, I use <tt>vim(1)<\/tt>. On the Mac, I use TextMate. And on Windows, it seems like NotePad++ might be what I&#8217;m after. Is it? I&#8217;m unsure, but so far, I don&#8217;t mind it &#8212; it has text completion, it can be configured with plugins, I installed <tt>aspell<\/tt> so I can run a spell-check (how I wish it would show me an error while I type, as it does in TextMate).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/\">7-zip<\/a> &#8211; In the old days, you might think of WinZip. Today, there&#8217;s 7-zip, and now I can access my .bz2 or .tar files. Its also opensource software, and I like this, naturally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You know what I do miss? Keyboard shortcuts. I&#8217;m so used to hitting Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E, and Ctrl+K, in the command line, that I can&#8217;t seem to get the same responses in Windows. Ick.<\/p>\n<p>What about remapping the Caps Lock key that I never use, to being another Control key? For that, I had to edit the registry! Seriously, what world do we live in?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt><br \/>\nREGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Keyboard Layout] \"Scancode Map\"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00<\/tt>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/Downloads\/powertoys\/Xppowertoys.mspx\">PowerToys<\/a> set of tools seem interesting. I installed the Virtual Desktop Manager, which makes Windows more usable &#8211; I can now have several workspaces, and move around by pressing the Windows key+1,2,3,4. This is like Spaces.app, and like virtual desktops that you see in GNOME.<\/p>\n<p>I miss Quicksilver. Just hitting Ctrl+Space, and entering the name of an application makes so much sense &#8212; does this exist in Windows land?<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how to perform backups in Windows. What&#8217;s the Time Machine or rdiff-backup equivalent?<\/p>\n<p>I find it funny that this little laptop has more disk space than my MacBook Air (which I paid a lot more for). It has a 1.6GHz Atom processor, and its mostly incapable of playing back HD video (stuff that comes out of my Kodak Zi6 for example). But for most purposes (browser, SSH, NotePad++, Evernote) it seems to be fine.<\/p>\n<p>What about the battery life? So far I&#8217;ve noticed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 hours 40 minutes with Skype video running<\/li>\n<li>7 hours 50 minutes with just a browser, NotePad++, SSH, Evernote, running<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I can considerably improve the battery life if I disable Avast!. But should I? I mean, this is Windows, and I am deadly scared of <i>catching a cold<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So there, I&#8217;ve been using Windows XP for about two weeks now. It worked wonderfully well while I was at the conference. The laptop is light. I can type on it easily. It seems to do everything I need it to do. I wish there was a real shell (PowerShell, people tell me to try &#8212; I will soon), but PuTTY puts me in control of other machines so I just get stuff done.<\/p>\n<p>Would I recommend the Asus 1000HE? Yes, I would. 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