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“Initial impressions of the Asus Eee PC 1000H.”

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Keyboard is great. Slightly smaller than the Samsung Q1 external keyboard. Even then, the keys are relatively large and has a nice feel. – You (edit | delete)

Touchpad buttons are stiff. I’m beginning to tap the touch pad for a left click more since it causes less strain on my wrists. Multitouch scrolling in the browser is fantastic. Very much like a MacBook. – You (edit | delete)

How’s your spacebar? – Lora Heiny

Display is bright thanks to LED backlight. I’m using the 4th notch from the left to save battery life. The bezel is a bit large. Probably could have fit an 11″ screen. Would still like 1280×768 resolution but at 1024×600, reading text is nice. – You (edit | delete)

Battery life so far is fantastic. Under normal usage, can probably get around 4-5 hours. With intense CPU/LAN/hard drive usage, probably around 3-4 hours. – You (edit | delete)

Performance is ok. It’s faster than the Intel A110 800Mhz chip in the previous generation of UMPC’s, but not by much. I’m assuming most of the performance gains are coming from the faster RAM and 5400 RPM SATA2 hard drive. I ran an initial benchmark with CrystalMark. I will run another test when I replace the memory with a 2GB CAS 4 stick and 320GB 5400RPM WD Scorpio drive when they arrive tomorrow. – You (edit | delete)

Boot up time.. It’s ok. It’s not much of a factor to me since I use Sleep Mode all the time. Time to sleep when closing the lid is very fast. Within a few seconds. It’s disappointing it doesn’t come out of sleep when opening the lid. You have have to press the power button to wake. It’s fast coming out of sleep. – You (edit | delete)

@Lora: The spacebar feels very nice. There is a little bit of travel on all the keys, but overall, it’s very very comfortable. There’s no real difference clicking the spacebar from the left or right side.. The construction is solid. – You (edit | delete)

Audio. The speaker volume is low. It’s kind of cool that is has environmental effects, but I usually ignore them. – You (edit | delete)

plug in a headphones and it works fine. You will get prompted for how you want the plug to be used BTW. – Christopher Welle

I’m still not sure what the ‘Super Hybrid Engine’ does. I assume it reduces or overclocks the CPU but I haven’t noticed any changes when observing the CPU speed and power usage with Notebook Hardware Control. – You (edit | delete)

The dedicated resolution switching button is very handy. There will be times when an app will require minimum 1024×768. – You (edit | delete)

The webcam quality is not bad at all. I’m not totally convinced this chipset can handle full 30fps 1.3 megapixel video, but for streaming through Ustream/Seesmic/etc, it should be fine. – You (edit | delete)

Love that you fit a whole review here. Keep it coming. – Andrew Warner

So if you review here on FriendFeed, what will you have for the blog? Will you capture everything you reviewed and post it on your blog? Using FriendFeed to answer any questions that are added to the blog? – Christopher Welle

Just asking because its a interesting thought to do posts with instant feedback that you can add to the blog post later. – Christopher Welle

The power drain is interesting. It hovers around -10-12W drain. Up to around -15W when plugging in USB devices. I would think the Atom processor would account for a lot more battery saving but it doesn’t seem significantly more efficient than the A110. The 10″ display and 5400RPM hard drive are the main factors for relatively high power drain. I’m sure running Vista will gain more battery life since its power management is much better. – You (edit | delete)

Haha thanks for answering the question for me. I’ll most likely, copy/paste this post to my blog instead. I find it more comfortable to write in spurts rather than stress out on a whole post. – You (edit | delete)

Kind of like taking notes with a live audience then edit it into something else afterwards. – Christopher Welle

Wheres the pictures? – Christopher Welle

Pictures will come later. I’ll do some comparison shots with a MacBook, Fujitsu U810, Samsung Q1, and any other devices that are around. – You (edit | delete)

Heat. Not bad at all. The only real warm spot is where the hard drive sits. I have no problems with this sitting on my bed without a laptop cooler thingy. NHC shows the HD around 50 degrees C. CPU at around 55-60 C. – You (edit | delete)

I’m missing the touchscreen. Sometimes it’s a pain to try to be accurate with the touchpad. I’m catching myself wanting to just click the screen or move the scroll bars with my finger. – You (edit | delete)

Well, I’m sure I’ll post more comments later. For now, at around $450 + shipping, this little Netbook is a great deal. – You (edit | delete)

link to where you bought it. – Christopher Welle

http://www.amazon.com/1000H-10… – You (edit | delete)

I bought it off Amazon and TigerDirect was the lowest priced seller at the time at $469. I paid $30 for 2 days shipping. They are out of state so no sales tax. It came in 2 days . I also recommend buying from Newegg . The only reason I didn’t go there was because they were out of stock at the time. The one I have has an 80GB hard drive. It doesn’t matter to me since I’m replacing the hard drive. If you want to run it out of the box, the new ones come with a 160 GB hard drive. http://www.amazon.com/1000H-Di… – You (edit | delete)

Well, looks like there’s a desktop version which is great for those who send videos or photos to multiple services.

It runs off Adobe Air. The interface is simple with only three inputs fields for the title, description, and tags. If you want to add additional services, you need to log in to the ShoZu site and add from there.

ShoZu one-click video and image uploads expands from mobile to desktop | The Mobile Gadgeteer | ZDNet.com

I found out Inkseine was available a day early from Rob of gottabemobile.com so I went ahead and installed it.  So far it seems cool.  It works perfectly fine on the Fujitsu U810’s touchscreen.  I like the interface, but I’m not exactly sure what I’d use it for.  I’d still rather use Windows Journal for ink blog posts.  It’s fun to use so I suggest you try it out.

Here’s a quick video of the install. While I was setting up for this video, FedEx came again and dropped off the GorillaPod for SLR sized cameras. I stuck the Aiptek A-HD to it right away and used it in part of the video.
That’s why there’s so much noise. The GorillaPod is stiff, which is good, but it cause a lot of noise while bending the joints.

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I plan on mounting this in my car use to use when broadcasting on the road like Jeff Hibbard. Also will come in handy for games that support this cam when plugging it into the Xbox 360.
The drivers loaded up right away when installing through Windows Update on the PC.
It’s pretty much a standard 1.3 Megapixel webcam. Much better than the webcam included on the Fujitsu U810.
640×480 video is clean and smooth. $36.66 at Circuit City.
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Messing around with Sony Vegas. Took this at one of the Moss Landing Beaches.
Recorded with the Aiptek A-HD in low res mode (352×240).
Music by Glen Hansard from the movie Once.
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Sat at the bowling alley with U810 and edited with Sony Vegas. Rendered to 320×240 512kb/s WMV.

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Live Inkblogs Demo
Using ManyCams and Utterz.

It’s a dead simple way to record and then share a webcam recording. You don’t need a login, so you can jump on over and try it right away.

Other sites worth mentioning that provide the same service are Hellodeo and Twango.

I’m still at the bowl watching football and the 8 game scratch tourney.

Another ink attempt on U810
Well I figure I better practice
inking on the Fujitsu U810 since
I’ll be stuck with this for a
while. It’s just not easy writing
on this super light touch screen
that’s super slick with a thin
stylus.
I really wanted to use this for
mobile/on-the-go inking since
I grabbed the domain name
‘mobileinker.com.’  I envisioned
myself using this while out of the
house and moblog my entries
on the fly.

Live Video Streaming
Justin.tv wasn’t there lifecasting.  We did get sporatic coverage from Robert Scoble using Mogulus and Qik.  Other than that, there wasn’t much effort to put out 24/7 live coverage. 

This is surprising since ‘lifecasting’ has been blowing up in the past year with ustream.tv, justin.tv, operator11.com, stickam.com, mogulus.com, and blogtv.com.  Are these sites now just being used for simple web cam chatting?  It would be great to see the cam get out of the house sometime.
For those who prefer to do live video streaming from your cell phone, there’s qik.com and comvu.com.  Both work amazingly well.  Qik is the new kid on the block and has an easy to use web 2.0′ish front end to make things easier for the end user.  At the moment, it currently only supports Nokia S60 based phones.  Comvu has been around the block for a while now and has the advantage of supporting both Symbian and Windows Mobile based phones.  If you have GPS in your phone or have a bluetooth GPS receiver paired, you can even have viewers track your location.  Unfortunutely, this is only supported with the IE browser.

Moblogging
James Kendrick of jkOnTheRun was moblogging with his HTC Advantage, but I wouldn’t call that live.  Moblogging is nothing new either so I’m also surprised more people didn’t do it.
I have been posting moblogs for some time now by taking photos with the iPhone and emailing flickr, which then updates my blog.  Lately, I’ve been micromoblogging by emailing photos to Utterz which then crossposts to twitter.
One of my favorite activities is inkmicromoblogging (!) by using Loren Heiny’s Ink Grams web app.  You ink a message staight from your web browser and have the image cross post to flickr and twitter.
Moblogging isn’t limited to photos either.  If you have a phone that can record video (Come on Apple, add video recording already!), you can email the video as an attachment to sites such as blip.tv.   Blip.tv will automatically convert your emailed video to the format of choice (Flash is the default) and you can set it up to autocrosspost the video to your blog with the embedded video in the post.