The ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1005PE Netbook Review

After doing a lot of research, I decided to buy this Netbook. The reason this specific model does not come with a recovery disk is because there is one-touch recovery built in which will restore the PC to its original state from files which are located on the hard drive. From my understanding, people better start getting used to this since it seems to be where computer companies are going. I also chose to install Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit instead of sticking with the Starter Edition  which runs very very well on only 1GB of RAM. I have the 2GB upgrade once I decide that I will need it. The reason I didn't install 64-bit is because you can't use more than 2GB of memory and also because I didn't want to have any driver issues. In the end, it makes very little difference. So far it seems that Win7 Ultimate even runs better and smoother than the Starter version, mostly due to the removal of all the crapware that comes pre-installed.

Couple of things to note: I installed the new OS using a bootable flash drive due to the lack of a CD/DVD Rom Drive (Of course this is a netbook). Also, when I was installing the new OS, there were 4 partitions on the HDD. Two of the partitions were your basic space allocated to storing installed programs/data storage etc, however, there was also 10GB and 17MB partitions which from my understanding contain recovery files. To be safe, just leave these partitions alone.

All in all, I am very happy with thisASUS Eee PC Seashell 1005PE and am glad I purchased it.