Definition: Given an Amazon review, indicate whether it is a 'Positive Review' or 'Negative Review'.
Input: Hey guys and gals. Okay, I've had this machine for a week now. I will probably update this after more time has passed. I also like the small keyboard because there's less hand and finger travel involved so I find it much easier to type. THE BATTERY is UNREAL. READ your manuals boys and girls, ESPECIALLY the part about conditioning your battery three times. Search the internet and download the free program \"CPUID Hardware Monitor\". It shows the \"wear level\" and capacity of your battery. VERY cool. My battery started with 10% wear level out of the box. After 3 \"conditionings\" as explained in the manual, I have zero wear level and today my power meter says I have 11 hours and 48 minutes to go! Each \"conditioning\" I did, I watched the battery's capacity level in CPUID go up! I have NEVER seen ANYTHING like this in my life and I have had multiple laptops since 1995. The battery life is CRAZY. Obviously those numbers will go down faster as you start and run programs. I wish they could put decent graphic cards in these netbooks. NONE of them in this price range on the market have one. But then that would also kill the battery life as well. This one will get you by with BASIC graphics handling. I can watch HD video MP4s only with Quicktime. VLC Media Player and Windows Media Player (after installing codecs for it) jitter and stutter with HD MP4 videos, Quicktime does NOT. I have run several BASIC games, Hoyle Casino 2008, MS Pinball Arcade, Virtual Pool 3 and they all seem to run good, no issues. As you have no T&L or anti-aliasing capabilities with this video card, the heavy duty 3D games stutter and jitter if they run AT ALL. After a couple days I upgraded the RAM to 2 GB to see if that would help and it did not. Basic, low graphic games run just fine. What's funny is I watched HD video on YouTube with zero issues. I run an older version of Adobe Photoshop without any issues. Microsoft Office 2007 runs beautifully. UPDATE: HD VIDEO EDITING My Sanyo VPC CG10 HD digital camcorder creates videos in HD MP4 format. I had to do a few things to get this computer to work with them. I had to install the codecs from shark007.net to get the PC to work with the MP4s. After that, they will play in Windows Media Player as well. HD editing? I bought the \"Wondershare\" Netbook converter suite which includes their \"DVD to netbook converter\" and a pretty quick and efficient \"Video to netbook\" converter. They have a trial and that's what made me buy it. It's simple, fast, efficient, has many options and takes up very little space on my hard drive. Google them. After trying several other converters, I found this to be the best for me. I convert the videos from MP4 to WMV and load them into the old XP Windows Movie Maker. I found out that XP Windows Movie Maker uses profiles. The default settings don't allow you to save your creations in HD format. HOWEVER, I found dozens of *.prx files, which are the profiles, all over the web. I downloaded several HD profiles. Some included instructions on which folder to copy them to. WALLA! Like magic... I am now editing and saving HD videos with this netbook using Windows XP SP3 and the old XP Windows Movie Maker on a 1.66 Ghz processor, 2 gigs of RAM! No stuttering, no issues, zero problems and the videos come out great! UPDATE: SEE COMMENTS BELOW ON MY RAM MEMORY EXPERIENCE! Overall speed. This thing flies!!! Clicking on things, opening programs, Windows start up... zooming in a map in Delorme or Microsoft mapping software... ALL wayyyyyyy faster than my 2.2 Ghz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM Windows 7 Professional laptop. How does THAT happen??? Everything just seems to happen FASTER. Is it Windows XP? I don't know but I did WANT a netbook with Windows XP. I wanted one before you can't buy them any longer. As it is now, you can't buy them in stores any longer. Overall, for $300, I LOVE this little machine and have decided I will keep it. I'll save the HD video editing for my other laptop. Although, I have not tried it yet on this little machine. Maybe in a review update. It's more than half the size as my other laptop and even with a case, can EASILY fit in an airplane carry-on or under a car seat. I fit MOST of the programs and files I need on the 160 GB hard drive. Too bad Windows XP does not support any larger sizes. I anticipate this little machine will be going with me everywhere I go... never leave the house without it! I give it 5 stars out of 5!!! It's a keeper!!! Juan
Output:
Positive Review