I finally got everything set up and actually have the time to write a full review of this thing. I have to say, it’s probably the best electronics purchase I’ve made in a long time.

It’s hard to really appreciate how small  it is unless you see it compared to something of known size. Here’s the 10″ EeePC on my 17″ HP:

Since getting it, I upgraded the RAM to 2GB, and installed a vLite‘ed version of Vista. I plan to do a vLite tutorial soon. I also ordered a Western Digital 320GB hdd to replace the 80GB HDD that’s in it. All of this stuff can be found on my EeePC Amazon Store.

I was going to do a tutorial on replacing the ram, but if you’ve ever done anything at all to a computer, it’s simple it would be a waste of time. Take out two screws and you get this

Take the old ram out and put your new ram in. Reverse the direction of the screws. You’re done. You can also see that the HDD is right there, it should be just as easy to swap, if I run into any problems I’ll post about it. I should get my new drive Monday.

To get the computer to recognize the ram, you need to reboot and go into bios, check the ram, then save and exit. The quick boot function doesn’t poll the ram on every start.

The Windows Experience Index rates mine a 2.7, based on the “Gaming performance” score. The second lowest score is a 3.0.

I can’t speak for a full install of Vista, but the vlited copy I’m using runs flawlessly. Everything opens pretty much instantly with no lag at all. Streaming high res video from Hulu.com runs great. The touchpad software is pretty freaking cool, with multitouch features. I would suggest you go into mouse settings and disable the touchpad while keying, so you don’t accidentally move your cursor around, and I would also suggest you disable the two finger tap feature. Two finger scroll acts like a scroll wheel, which is awesome. Two finger tap acts like a middle click. This would be awesome if it didn’t frequently mistake an attempt to scroll as a click. Trust me, just turn it off. Also, the shift key on the right hand side is in an odd place, I used SharpKeys to swap it with the up arrow key, it works a lot better that way, in my opinion.

Here’s an actual resolution shot of my desktop, so you have an idea of the screen size:

Battery life is pretty amazing too. I have mine set to “high performance”, and I’ve been using it for about three hours today. It still estimates two hours left. It will go close to 8 on power saving mode.

I really can’t say enough good things about the 1000H. It would be a stretch to suggest it as an only computer, but it’s basically perfect as a mobile computer. Capable of 99% of the stuff of a “normal” laptop, while costing less and being much better suited to actually doing stuff away from home or the office. I typed part of this on my lunch break, tethered to my phone via the built in bluetooth.

Trust me, you want one.