At our school - I work as a teacher - recently ran into some colleagues on 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 anything a laptop can, but it fits comfortably in my bag, no one would have to carry a second bag or needs to be afraid, when hitting something with the bag the expensive notebook to destroy. Since last week, I am the owner of such a part.

On the market several devices romp with seemingly the same equipment: 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 it would have everything the competition offers, I immediately purchased this resolved shortly. Today, a week later, I think an ASUS Eee PC 1000H in your hand, say the court went back to Saturn (a big plus for Saturn: the return for cash was hassle). Why? What were the weaknesses that have led me to take this step?

The X110 is a distinct light weight (1.2 kg) and also correspondingly flat. Beautiful. I was not entirely conclusive regarding the color: it was white with black exterior (I opted for) or offered in all white, otherwise I would have chosen a rather dark version.
The first minus point was the appalling sound quality of the built-in speaker. Clearly, at this size is expected to neither hi nor rich bass, but this shrill, exclusively consisting of treble sound seemed even strange. According to the seller agrees it would be normal, but not the Asus sounds much better.

My colleagues have incorporated in 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 there was anyway) and the manual was just not there: no paper manual, no software installation manual. Instead, it was enclosed 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 only a 3-cell, and battery life is perhaps the most important feature for many users.

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

I would even like the Asus taken the tests in some sections very well, with long battery life just seems to be a plus on the Asus. Unfortunately, the Asus Eee 1000H at Saturn was much more expensive (429, - €). In contrast, it was Amazon for 399, - to have (unfortunately I do not belong to the patient of his contemporaries, when I want something, you prefer to immediately . Luckily I looked so still over at Karstadt: also 399, - €, in white or black, the same takeaway

The weight is 1.45 kg versus 1.2 alm slightly greater in the LG X110, it is the power supply is much smaller and lighter (yes it is dragged along in the pocket). The LG X110 the power cable was also a three-pole version with thick grounding type plugs (although the cable from the power supply to the netbook was only two pins anyway, so mass-free) and was thus difficult and quite 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 comes with a stylish zipper case. Another difference is a matter of taste: When you scroll with the Finder X110 on the right edge of the touchpad, the Asus you have to take two fingers up to these anywhere on the touchpad or shutdown.

Again, the weak points of the LG X110 in the abstract: easy, but not just because of 3-cell battery, no Bluetooth, expandable RAM, lousy sound, thick power cord (!)

More info on Asus Eee 1000h at Amazon:
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