ASUS Eee PC 1015CX 10.1 inch netbook - Black (Intel Atom N2600 1.6GHz, 1Gb RAM, 320Gb HDD, LAN, WLAN, Webcam, Windows 7 Starter)

Came on time. Easy to figure out and does what you would expect. Doesn't seem to get on with Championship Manager,which I play often unfortunately.

Forgive me for the background story - I select all my portables on the basis of maximum battery life and this was bought as a replacement for my much beloved Samsung NC10 Netbook which I had originally upgraded to 2GB RAM. That Samsung unfortunately was blighted by the infamous "white screen" issue and had become virtually unusable towards the end and looked like a Mad Max gadget thanks to my technical attempts to solve the issue, not to mention chronic left hand pain and increasing deformity for me having to twist the screen to get any sort of image! To its credit, despite using a now ancient Intel Atom N270 CPU, it was fairly nippy, especially with the extra RAM and I could run MS Office 2007 with the best of 'em. It could also play most movies back with sound in synch except for movies taken direct from a camera. Upload to You Tube and it would be smooth though.Which brings me onto the Asus Eee PC 1015CX. Its battery life seems to be excellent and it has a bright, vibrant and clear screen which was an unexpected bonus. It is also light, seemingly well made and designed and satisfying to the touch with user friendly materials and nice textures for the plastics used underneath. That, sadly, is where the good news ends.I will never for the life of me understand why the ch**** at AsusTek (a highly respected company by the way) saw fit to restrict the memory upgradeability of this machine. It has 1GB soldered on and that's it. No memory upgrade slots, no nothing. Want a memory upgrade? Their message to you is G.A.F.Y. as Michael O'Leary of Ryanair would say.So therefore, the machine must work brilliantly on just 1GB and no more, right? Seeing as so many brilliant Taiwanese minds have pored over and contemplated it from every angle....right?Well yes, provided you have the patience of ancient stone statues and get a special pleasure from watching a blinking blue hard disk light for hours on end before anything happens. The whole thing locks up like lock-jaw and you might as well go away, have your dinner and come back.And this is virtually straight out of the box by the way. I haven't installed anything else on it other than the Google Chrome browser and activated Trend Micro anti-virus by the way and the thing already runs on bootup at between 75 and 85 percent memory usage. It lives, plays and splashes about in the swap file in other words, as if its halcyon days were to be found there. This is the reason why I haven't bothered to even install MS Office on it yet. I doubt it could cope although it allegedly has a far more powerful Atom processor than my ancient Samsung.It is sadly gathering dust now somewhere. I don't particularly mind that it comes with a penny-pinching Windows 7 Starter which doesn't even allow you to change the background but the instability indicated by the constant Adobe Shockwave failures in both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome did it for me.This thing is practically unusable and Asustek deserves to be punished for inflicting brainless stinginess on its products. Some idiotic manager needs to be fired and things may improve once again. I hope....

This is an excellent product and does everything I want, with exception to BlueTooth. I thought I was buying a model that has this but it later turns out that it does not. I had to purchase a seperate BlueTooth dongle that takes up one of the USB ports.

I live in France and finding a Qwerty keyboard netbook quickly was impossible - except the very expensive ones. Amazon.co.uk accepted my order with my French bank card, the shipping charge was very low, and it arrived within the allocated delivery time. An excellent service for a Brit living overseas. I bought this netbook because of the slim size, weight and most importantly the length of battery time. I travelled for 24 hours with only hand luggage and needed something light and small. It worked perfectly with my hard drive so that all my documents, photos, music and films were accessible. The battery lasted for the entire journey - which was several hours in the air and travelling by train so the 11 hours is probably correct. I was able to download a small free wordpad version of Word from Microsoft so that my documents could open - enabling me to work on simple documents while travelling. It picked up wifi signals quickly. An excellent computer - absolutely no regrets - it does everything I wanted it to do.

Small, funky, pretty, good battery life, good power, memory (though we added 2G extra RAM) etc. In all ways perfect but two. The charger cable and connector. It's a tiny, TINY little connector, with a very fragile pin. Mine lasted a little over 2 years then, one day, it snapped. The pin in the centre came out in the cable. The cable had already been giving trouble and had needed taking apart and resoldering as the connections in it were loose and the charge wasn't reaching the computer.We took the whole lot to the repair guys who said they could get a new connector and cable (it had shorted when it broke) for about £100, but that the same thing would happen again.Very sad and a rather large waste of money really. I got a different laptop instead, with a standard sized charger input.

good for what it is but when it said 1gb memory i thought this could be uprated but it cant,i leave anymore comments

Well I have an ASUS 1000HE which I upgraded to 3 GB RAM, 128GB SSD harddrive and Ubuntu Linux OS 12.04. It was the best machine in the household - and after the purchase of this machine (which performs worse) I wonder what was the point?The 1015CX does not permit ram upgrade (even if you dismantle the whole laptop) because the memory chips are soldered directly onto the motherboard.The harddrive can be substituted, but with the limited ram and an intel atom running Windows-7 starter I hope you have oceans of patience, because it is sooo energy friendly that nothing happens. When I turned the machine on the first time, windows started updating and was still is winding on the harddrive 2 hours later. What does that mean? Well ASUS EEE is supposed to have 11 hours on battery, but with WIN-7 winding and winding on the mechanical harddrive the battery life drops to 50%.So why is it spending so much time on the harddrive? Well its because the RAM cannot be upgraded whereby the machine needs to use swap-file all the time. And if you want to upgrade the harddrive to an SSD? Warranty void + extra cost for the MS licence.WINDOWS 7 = What a miserable OS.ASUS have never messed up a match between an OS (WIN7), the memory requirements to actually get anything done, the motherboard design and the choice of harddrive sooo badly as in this product.DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY. Buy the ultrabooks instead.