It comes with only ONE speaker, located at the bottom, and sound volume is OK for home use but not for crowded places like classrooms and airport. Like most other netbooks, it comes with ONE RAM slot. You pick it up, and the rubberized matte finish feels good under your fingers -- like there's no way you're going to drop it unless you're a complete klutz. Also annoying is that the Windows 7 version it comes with idiotically does not let you choose a background. The battery life has been great with about 7.5 hours on Windows and about 5 hours on Linux - both are superior to a previous Asus PC netbook I was using. I love this laptop. I got it with 1 GB of RAM. Definitely go with 2 GB module. I did upgrade to 2G of memory. Now I know nothing about computer innards and the replacement was very easy. The unit has three USB ports as well as an SD card reader for all your photographic and peripheral needs. The keyboard is just what I have been looking for.
You just have to hook up an external display, like the Aquos TV to view hi-res to your heart's content. The built-in panel is clear with rich color but it also drives an external display very well.
The best formats seem to be flash or mpeg-2; and definitely NOT mpeg-4. But I gave this 4 stars; because I really do like it for everything else. I have older Toshiba laptops with excellent experience, in fact they are still working (WIN98, 450Mb HD, 64Mb RAM)! I decided to take the risk and bought the netbook from Amazon. To be honest, I was slightly skeptical about its 1GB of RAM and 1.66 GHz processor. After opening it up, booting it, and fiddling around with it a bit, I was pleasantly surprised!
I am glad that I got it. As long as you don't ask it to do what it wasn't designed to do, it works very well. Volume and monitor functions are better handled with software applets. Suspend and hibernation work, but very slowly. Other than that, everything works out great. The only bad thing is lack of optical drive (which is true for all netbooks) and Windows 7 Starter OS which doesn't allow the desktop background to be changed- oh well.
It does everything I could want in a netbook and it looks pretty cool too. I am in Iraq (deployed) and this is the one thing that connects me to my family back home and it has not failed me once. I found only a few places where I needed to pay for a connection. The cost of the netbook was less than what I would have paid to connect with my Blackberry.
You just have to hook up an external display, like the Aquos TV to view hi-res to your heart's content. The built-in panel is clear with rich color but it also drives an external display very well.
The best formats seem to be flash or mpeg-2; and definitely NOT mpeg-4. But I gave this 4 stars; because I really do like it for everything else. I have older Toshiba laptops with excellent experience, in fact they are still working (WIN98, 450Mb HD, 64Mb RAM)! I decided to take the risk and bought the netbook from Amazon. To be honest, I was slightly skeptical about its 1GB of RAM and 1.66 GHz processor. After opening it up, booting it, and fiddling around with it a bit, I was pleasantly surprised!
I am glad that I got it. As long as you don't ask it to do what it wasn't designed to do, it works very well. Volume and monitor functions are better handled with software applets. Suspend and hibernation work, but very slowly. Other than that, everything works out great. The only bad thing is lack of optical drive (which is true for all netbooks) and Windows 7 Starter OS which doesn't allow the desktop background to be changed- oh well.
It does everything I could want in a netbook and it looks pretty cool too. I am in Iraq (deployed) and this is the one thing that connects me to my family back home and it has not failed me once. I found only a few places where I needed to pay for a connection. The cost of the netbook was less than what I would have paid to connect with my Blackberry.
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