It works ok as an ereader, but not as well as epaper. What else can I do with it? I wanted to use it for browsing the web. I am used to Firefox, so the first step was to download and install that. Quick and painless. Then I wanted to move across my custom-written html home page from my iMac. I noticed a bluetooth icon on the tray at the bottom right. I click it. Long delay, followed by a bluetooth not found message. I notice a bluetooth icon on the desktop, so I click that. Same thing. So I browse the web on my desktop for some 1000HE specs. Yes, they all say it has bluetooth. Hmmm.
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Asus is basically a hardware company. Founded in April 1990, it has been best known for making motherboards, but has made a variety of other components. A few years ago, it started to manufacture equipment under its own name, principally laptops. It makes them to high standards – it is widely reported to manufacture Apple’s MacBooks.
It was easy to set up. I took it out of the box, slotted the battery into place, plugged in the charger and left it to charge up. When I turned it on, Windows XP SP2 came up fairly quickly.