{"id":530,"date":"2008-10-26T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/26\/multitouch-on-the-eeepc-1000h\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T12:50:10","slug":"multitouch-on-the-eeepc-1000h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/26\/multitouch-on-the-eeepc-1000h\/","title":{"rendered":"Multitouch on the eeePC 1000H"},"content":{"rendered":"

I loved my eeePC 700 with Xandros Linux<\/a>– so portable, so easy, so cute – \u00a0but I had problems with re-installing the VPN client I need to access the work wireless.<\/p>\n

I loved my husband’s eeePC 701 with Windows XP – no probs with VPN or viewing my work email via webmail (that only really works on Internet Explorer)….so I stole it for a few months…. but every time XP had an update I’d lose all available memory as it just bloated…and some applications demanded that I manually re-size the screen …driving me ‘nanas.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago I bought an eeePC 1000H<\/a>. I really love it so far. It is a bit bigger physically than the eeePC 701, but with 80G of storage I can store my photos on it and make backups of presentations when I travel, and it works just fine with the cult of Microsoft that is my workplace. Apparently it runs Vista just fine. I can even run Second Life on it – slow but enough to do an emergency repair or talk to a friend. <\/p>\n


\nIt is actually faster to do most things than the eeePC 1000 which has a 16G SSD drive<\/a> – contrary to what one would think. It is a *totally* different beastie to the eeePC 1000HD – which has a slower processor. Check out the eeePC specification comparison table in Wikipedia<\/a> if you want to know more.<\/p>\n

Image below :Eee PC 1000H and Eee PC 901 20G<\/a> \u00a0 Uploaded to Flickr on October 17, 2008<\/a> by Josh Bancroft<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The deal clincher for me was the battery life – a claimed 6-7hrs when not using wireless. I do not get quite as good times as I paid $50 to a man in a small booth in Sim Lim square in Singapore to upgrade the RAM from 1G to 2G while I waited.<\/p>\n

I have also enjoyed using bluetooth for the first time. I can download photos from my phone and save backup files from my work laptop with absoluter ease.<\/p>\n

The only problem I had with it was that it seemed like the internal microphone was not working. The mike would not pick up my voice when I was recording a movie with the webcam. Many posts to forums talk about people sending their 1000H back to ASUS as broken, but it turns out that there is a simple fix.\u00a0 Turns out there is a really odd manufacturer’s setting to do with making the mike\u00a0 just record one zone<\/a> To fix it, go to the Realtec HD Audio manager on the taskbar, Microphone tab, and disabled the Beam Forming and Echo Cancellation<\/p>\n

Some folk have been really excited by the fact that you can install Mac OS X<\/a> on it …but the bit of geekery that thrills me is the multi-touch touchpad.<\/p>\n

Pootling about on the day I bought it, I found this article from Laptop Magazine July 2008 about how to upgrade the firmware so that the touchpad does magical things, Eee PC 1000H Updated with New Multi-Touch<\/a>. Apparently ASUS had not officially approved this, so you needed to download the software here from Elantech<\/a>, the Taiwanese manufacturer. The website *is* all in Chinese, but I somehow managed to do it. Check out this video below to see all the hoops it will jump through, Multi-Touch on the Eee PC 1000H.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I really love the way I can\u00a0 put two fingers on the pad and they slowly pull them apart diagonally and it makes my screen zoom larger or smaller. I have set it so that if I pull down with three fingers, it does the same as tapping [alt] [tab] and then I slide my hand sideways sideways to select the window I want. The touchscreen seems to work best with google’s web browser Chrome – so this is my browser of\u00a0 choice for *reading* now. For editing or publishing I still use Firefox, as Chrome is just flakey.<\/p>\n

It is easily the best $535 I’ve spent in a very long time.<\/p>\n


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