Thinking of picking up an Asus Eee 1025C

My sister in law pulled out this little guy last night

http://www.bestbuy.com …158&skuId=56168​19&st=ASUS EEE&cp=1&lp=1

Now the laptop I have currently is a huge 17" beast, I plan to keep it but more or less set it up as a desktop its to big and heavy to travel with. I was starting to shop tablets but this little guy looks like it might just work.

More or less want it to transfer images from my SD while on vacation, maybe some quick culling and very light editing. Watching movies, listening to music and surfing the net while traveling.

Whats everyones thoughts.

I can't even image trying to open software for light photo editing on one of those. Everything I ever heard about netbooks said they had trouble running Word and Internet Explorer at the same time. If you wanted transfer images during a vacation I would look at not keeping them solely on the netbook hard drive. These types of computers are the epitome of cheap. I know some people transfer images with Android tablets (from memory card to external drive), but I'm not familiar with how they do. Check out the android tablet thread for how people transfer images. I really think an android tablet of some kind, probably one of the Asus Transformers, would better suit your needs.

I've been using a netbook for 2 years. (Asus 1201PN) I run Lightroom 3 on it. If I had to do it again, I prefer getting a regular laptop instead of netbook because netbooks are too underpowered.

dingie256 wrote in post #14874509
I've been using a netbook for 2 years. (Asus 1201PN) I run Lightroom 3 on it. If I had to do it again, I prefer getting a regular laptop instead of netbook because netbooks are too underpowered.

But it does run Lightroom, it will not be my every day computer and if I am editing at all it would be a little color correction crop and post to facebook. But most vacations I am lucky to get the card dumped before I am passed out in bed

I have an ASUS 1215N Eee Netbook and I use it only when I travel, mostly for Internet access and for downloading and storing images from the field. It came with 2GB of memory which I upgraded to 4GB. It runs Windows 7-32 bit Home Edition and will run Microsoft Office as well as Lightroom. I also have the Canon software suite loaded, including Zoombrowser. These applications all run, but it is a slow machine as the dual-core Atom D525 CPU only runs at 1.8Ghz - you just have to accept this aspect of its operation, although the graphics with the NVIDIA ION graphics processor are great. I do not do any serious post-processing on it, but it serves to review my images at the end of each day and to maintain an initial download from the memory cards. Also, MS Word runs well enough to keep a notebook of the day's activities and any other bits of info I need. It runs Skype quite well so that my wife and I can talk with family when we are travelling (assuming Internet access, of course).

I do a backup of the images from the netbook to a flash drive and this combination seems to work well. It has been to Africa and various places in North America and I have never lost an image. The thing I really like about it is its weight. Unfortunately, this one does not have a USB 3 port, but it does come with 3 USB 2 ports - I think the USB 3 ports were only available on overseas machines when I bought mine.

Basically, it does what I need it to do and that is download and backup of my field images and provide Internet access while I am travelling. It is going back to Africa with me in about three weeks.

So that is my experience with this netbook. You may want to look at this one, compared with the one you mentioned in your posting.

WesternGuy

WesternGuy wrote in post #14880871
I have an ASUS 1215N Eee Netbook and I use it only when I travel, mostly for Internet access and for downloading and storing images from the field. It came with 2GB of memory which I upgraded to 4GB. It runs Windows 7-32 bit Home Edition and will run Microsoft Office as well as Lightroom. I also have the Canon software suite loaded, including Zoombrowser. These applications all run, but it is a slow machine as the dual-core Atom D525 CPU only runs at 1.8Ghz - you just have to accept this aspect of its operation, although the graphics with the NVIDIA ION graphics processor are great. I do not do any serious post-processing on it, but it serves to review my images at the end of each day and to maintain an initial download from the memory cards. Also, MS Word runs well enough to keep a notebook of the day's activities and any other bits of info I need. It runs Skype quite well so that my wife and I can talk with family when we are travelling (assuming Internet access, of course).

I do a backup of the images from the netbook to a flash drive and this combination seems to work well. It has been to Africa and various places in North America and I have never lost an image. The thing I really like about it is its weight. Unfortunately, this one does not have a USB 3 port, but it does come with 3 USB 2 ports - I think the USB 3 ports were only available on overseas machines when I bought mine.

Basically, it does what I need it to do and that is download and backup of my field images and provide Internet access while I am travelling. It is going back to Africa with me in about three weeks.

So that is my experience with this netbook. You may want to look at this one, compared with the one you mentioned in your posting.

WesternGuy

Thank you but the 1215 is a 12" screen and not a 10" .... the specs are close to the same if I remember correctly. I am looking for the portability that the 10" will provide. But it sounds like you are using it for exactly what I need.

Littlejon Dsgn wrote in post #14875693
But it does run Lightroom, it will not be my every day computer and if I am editing at all it would be a little color correction crop and post to facebook. But most vacations I am lucky to get the card dumped before I am passed out in bed

Yes, it does all that.I use Lightroom on it too. I even generate 1:1 previews separately (leave it alone for 30 minutes to an hour). Yes it works like any other laptop, but just so darn slow. Now I use a i7-3612QM to make up for all that time lost twiddling my thumbs.

Littlejon Dsgn wrote in post #14884923
Thank you but the 1215 is a 12" screen and not a 10" .... the specs are close to the same if I remember correctly. I am looking for the portability that the 10" will provide. But it sounds like you are using it for exactly what I need.

No problem - the only other aspect you might want to think about is battery life. One of the reasons I went with the 1215N was the battery life which was longer than other ASUS units at the time of purchase, but then they bring out new models so often that you can never keep up. Also, it ran Windows 7 Home Edition - another factor in my choice. Let us know how you like it when you get it,

WesternGuy