Well, I researched many netbooks (looking at Eesus, HP, Samsung, Dell, Acer), and I read and watched so many reviews and I even tried them out in the stories too. I finally settled on this one because of the battery life (9 hours), size (250gb), OS (Windows 7 starter) and price.

I bought the netbook primarily for websurfing such as checking emails, reading blogs and watching videos on youtube. And when I’m feeling creative, I’ll type stories. I didn’t want any thing fancy so Microsoft Word and Works fitted my word processor needs.

I’m not one to heavily customized my netbook either so I didn’t mind the limitations of Windows 7 starter. I didn’t upgrade to the 2gb ram because I felt that I didn’t really need it.

Anyways, here are my cons:

strange touchpad
- I do agree with most users about the cursor jumping on the screen, but I realized that it happens because the palm of my thumb on my left hand unconsciously hits the touchpad whenever I reach for “t”, “g”, “b” and spacebar. Since by palm touches the pad without me realizing it, this makes the cursor jumps. Since the touchpad is off-center towards the left, my left palm has this tendency to touch it often, so the cursor jumps often. Well, I’ve always been used to resting my palm on flat surfaces so having to type like I’m playing the piano is something I’ll just have to get used to. However, I’ve noticed that wearing a long sleeve that covers my palm stops the cursor from jumping. Overall, I think making the touchpad centered would help a lot (cuz there is lots of space on the right side…). Also while the scrolling up and down functions work on the touchpad, the scrolling sideways function don’t. I dont really mind that the scrolling sideways functions don’t work since I hardly use it.

screen brightness is not dim enough
- I have sensitive eyes, so when I tried to lower the brightness of the screen, I realized that it didn’t go completely dark. There are only 8 levels of brightness and at the lowest one, I find it still bright for my taste. This is just my own personal preference. So I dont think others will mind it.

glaringly bright power switch
- So when the screen is at the lowest brightness, the huge power switch with its glaring white light hurts my eyes. I have a small paper covering it, but still, I think it would have been nice to have the power button backlit instead of being so bright.

no time remaining for battery life
- The netbook tells you the percentage of battery life you have left, but not the time remaining. I tried seeing if there was an option for changing that and so far I haven’t found any which I thought was weird. In the end, I just figured it was 100% = 10 hours and worked my way from there. I mean after awhile, I started to get a hang of how long I should stay on before it asks me to recharge.

I am nitpicky so I pointed out things that others might overlook just because it doesn’t really bother them. But does that mean this netbook was bad? No. My cons just means that I wasn’t as comfortable as I thought it’d be using it. But do they hinder me in using it? Not really because I know that I’ll get used to them. Personally, I am quite satisfied and content with the netbook so far.

Especially the battery life. When the balloon pops up asking to recharge, I forget that this isn’t my computer!

I’ve got to say that battery life is awesome. I haven’t tested it, but I normally start the day at 10AM, waking up and turning this netbook on. Then I put it to sleep whenever I’m in class which is about 3-4 hours of sleep. When I’m done with class, I turn on the netbook. I’m surprised that only a few percentage was used in sleep mode. I stay on the netbook surfing around until 10PM where I get the balloon telling me to recharge. Charging isn’t too bad. It takes about 3 hours. So even tho I dont know how long the netbook actually lasts, lasting a whole day is quite good! It also depends on what you’re doing and what applications you’re running too. I realized that when I was scanning my netbook, it took up more power. Most of the time, I’m just online so I dont have much running.

And the volume is louder than I expected. A lot of people complained that it wasn’t loud enough, so I thought it wouldn’t be but at 100% volume, I could still hear it from where I’m typing. However, I’m also sensitive to noise and my ears start to hurt after listening to it on speaker because the quality sounds screechy. Of course it’s much louder and the quality sounds much much better with headphones. And I dont mind headphones.