At our school - I work as a teacher - were recently on a number of colleagues with a new netbook, which is a mini-laptop with most 10 "screen diagonal. Especially for teachers, such a device is of course enormously practical: It can be almost everything a laptop can, but it fits comfortably into the school bag, without the need to carry a second bag or needs to be afraid, when hitting something with the bag the expensive notebook destroy. Since last week, I am the owner of such a part.

On the market several devices romp with apparently the same terms: a standard in the price range of just 400, - € an Intel Atom CPU, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive and 10-inch TFT Dsiplay seems to be. Because just this week at Saturn, the LG X110 with this equipment for 379, - € on sale, the seller was and assured me that there was anything offered by the competition, I immediately decided to acquire it shortly. Today, a week later, I think an ASUS Eee PC 1000H in their hands, speak to the court went back to Saturn (a big plus for Saturn: the return of cash was perfectly fine). Why? What were the weaknesses that have led me to this step?

The X110 is an extremely light weight (1.2 kg) and also correspondingly flat. Beautiful. I was not entirely conclusive regarding the color: it was white with black outside (for I decided) or offered in all white, otherwise I would have chosen more of a dark design.
The first minus point was the horrible sound quality of the built-in speaker. Sure, this size is expected to neither hi nor rich bass, but this shrill, exclusively consisting of treble sound strange occurred to me before. According to the seller agrees it would be normal, but not the Asus sounds much better.

My colleagues have integrated their netbooks either Bluetooth, or (at Medion) they must plug in a mini-USB Bluetooth connector. I was not sure if the LG X110 has Bluetooth at all. On the package there was nothing to it (what little was there anyway) and the manual was just not there: no paper manual, not a software manual installed. Instead, it was supplied on a CD. Since netbooks but have no CD drive, a fact that comes before something strange. Without an external CD-Rom drive is nothing here. In this guide I just thought that Bluetooth is optional and is therefore installed only in some models. In the X110 but it is definitely not.

What caused me more grief was the fact that some manufacturers equip their models with a 6-cell battery, one with a 3-cell battery. This was the explanation for the light weight, it was just a 3-cell, and battery life is perhaps the most important feature for many users.

After I had read in a forum that is the X110, the RAM on-board, so be soldered on the motherboard and thus not interchangeable and expandable, I had enough and brought it back.

If I put the Asus equal times, the sections in some tests very well, with long battery life just seems to be an increase of Asus. Unfortunately, the Asus Eee 1000H at Saturn was much more expensive (429, - €). Amazon, however it was for 399, - to have (unfortunately I do not belong to the most patient of his contemporaries, when I want something, then my favorite now . Fortunately, I still looked so stop by Karstadt: also 399, - €, in white or black, like to go

The weight is 1.45 kg compared to 1.2 slightly larger alm the LG X110, it is the power supply is much smaller and lighter (which is to carry along so well in the pocket). For the LG X110 the power cable was also a three-position version with a thick plug with earth contact (although the cable from the power supply to the netbook was only two pole anyway, so mass-free) and was therefore difficult and rather rigid, so not poke for good in the pocket.

Even our son Tim likes the design of the 1000H much better. It also has Bluetooth and it is a stylish case comes with zipper. Another difference is a matter of taste: When you scroll X110 with the finder on the right edge of the touchpad of the Asus you have to take two fingers up to this anywhere on the touchpad or shutdown.

Once again, the weaknesses of the LG X110 in the summary: light, not only because of 3-cell battery, no Bluetooth, expandable memory, very poor sound, thick power cable (!)

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