Asus EeePC 1005HA Seashell 10-inch Netbook (Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Windows XP, up to 8.5 Hours Battery Life, White)
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No details are available for this product Outstandingly Good Value |
| Review Date: September 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mr. I. Waring, Pamber Heath, Hampshire, United Kingdom |
| Probably the lowest cost Netbook on Amazon but you'd never think it when you get it. Excellent build quality, very comfortable 1000x600 or so screen resolution, and what feels like a full size keyboard (haven't mistyped once yet). Where my current work IBM Thinkpad drains it's battery in an hour, my new Asus is going for over 6 hours use (watching product demo videos and surfing using Google Chrome on Windows XP) before I in need to connect it to the supplied power connector. Truely very impressed to date - as are most people who try it out.
I've had no performance issues playing back high resolution YouTube videos or any other application i've thrown at it; it seems to cope with them without breaking sweat (or getting too warm!). I've also plugged in a Vodafone "Top up and Go" Broadband USB stick and been happily surfing in a restaurant way out in the country, well away from any WiFi or other network connection. If you're wondering why there is another model with the same model number that costs £50 or so more, it's because it's 2/3 the thinkness of this one and has a battery that lasts slightly longer. For me, not a factor; this one is already very small to carry (about the size of an average hardback book). Based on my experience to date, I couldn't recommend this Netbook highly enough. I'm just very impressed and have been delighted with this Amazon purchase. |
| Top Stuff |
| Review Date: September 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Fishman, North East UK |
| What a brilliant piece of kit. Needed a small netbook for when I'm out and about taking photos and this looked like the one for me. Did a bit of research and what really swung it was the 8.5 hour battery.
Yes the screen can only go upto 1024x600 but it works very well. It comes with Microsoft Office Trial, Norton Anti-Virus (both of which I took off straight away). The drive is split into 2 80GB drives. Sound is good and the camera fine for chat. Plays AVI files very well, so the kids will be happy in the back of the car instead of having to watch films on a 3" screen of their MP4's. The machine itself looks very neat and tidy. While on the train the other day someone asked me if it was made by Apple, which must be a compliment in itself. Overall this is well worth the money, and if you need a bigger battery theres another version, but at too much extra cost to justify the extra 1.5 hours you'll get. I've also ordered a car charger for it, so I can charge on the go. Brilliant stuff from a company I've only just heard of. |
| Elizabeth Wetherby is REAL! |
| Review Date: January 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Mr. A. Pomeroy, Wiltshire, England |
| I bought an Asus Eee 701 about a year after it came out, and grew to love it like a faithful pet. It was far more flexible than a smartphone and much smaller than a laptop, and it was also a babe-magnet. But I eventually got fed up with the small screen and the limited battery life. I had to carry a high-capacity spare and constantly keep an eye on the remaining power. Asus came out with a confusing array of replacement models, and the 1005HA appears to be the best modern combination of value and performance (there's a 1008HA, which is thinner but has a non-removable battery, and there's also a pair of larger 1201 models which seem to overlap uncomfortably with conventional laptops). As I understand it, there are three basic models of the 1005HA, and the one that Amazon.co.uk sells is the HA-V, which is the mid-range model.
I've had mine for about a week now. Compared to the 701 it has a conventional magnetic hard drive, split into two 80gb partitions; a larger, higher-resolution screen; and much longer battery life. It takes the same memory modules, and indeed I swapped the 2gb chip in my 701 for the 1gb chip in my 1005HA with no problems. Physically, the hinge feels slightly less robust, and the body is proportionately heavier than the 701 (the battery, in contrast, is surprisingly lightweight). It's still hand-holdable but not as comfortable. Good stuff: the screen is 1024x600, not quite a conventional resolution but enough for most purposes. The colour rendition and contrast are fine. Blacks are black, rather than the washed-out grey I have seen on some monitors. The battery life is very impressive, far inside my comfort threshold. If you commute on the train for an hour and a half each way, and use it to surf the internet whilst doing so, and you use it at lunchtime and a bit in the afternoon, it should last a couple of days before you have to charge it. The 701 would have conked out during lunch. In practice you would have kept turning it off and on in short bursts and worrying about the battery. You can just leave the 1005HA on, and worry about other things. Although the batteries are large, they aren't very heavy, and so a couple of them should last a long aeroplane journey. The 701's only advantage in this respect is that it can comfortably be used if you're standing up, whereas the 1005HA is a bit too large for that. As with the 701 it has an SD card reader, which is useful if you have a digital SLR that takes SD cards. It's less relevant than the 701's SD card slot, given that the machine has a 160gb hard drive; with the 701, the SD card stood in for the hard drive. You don't need it any more. The keyboard is a revelation. The 701's keyboard was an uncomfortable hunt-and-peck thing with a misplaced right shift key. The 1005HA's keyboard has a full-sized right shift key and it's in the right place. I can touch type easily on it. The cursor keys are initially odd but the arrangement works. The power adapter is slightly smaller. Everything else that was good about the 701 is good about this. Bad stuff: I'm not enthused with the touchpad. It's flush with the case, differentiated by some studs. It doesn't feel as precise as the 701's keypad, even after a week of acclimatisation. The screen surround attracts hairs and dust like a vacuum cleaner. I miss the absolute solid state silence of the 701. It's slightly less of a babe magnet, because it's larger. You don't get the carry case that came with the 701 (boo!) or indeed any carry case. In all other respects it is win city. The only substantive criticism I can level is philosophical. The 701 had a definite niche. It was much much smaller than a laptop and far more flexible than a smartphone. It felt fresh and new. The 1005HA, on the other hand, is not much more portable than a small laptop, and in fact it's thicker and heavier than some laptops. I'm slightly more wary of carrying it around, slightly less willing to put it in the luggage, slightly less willing to use it in public. I could carry the 701 around easily with one hand, snap it open, surf the internet etc, snap it closed, stuff it into a backpack etc, whereas the 1005HA is more cumbrous. For a machine that only makes sense as a mobile device this is a bit worrying. Still, the extra battery life alone is a killer upgrade and if you sell your 701 to fund the upgrade the price is even more impressive. E.g. there are other netbooks from other manufacturers. |
| EeePC 1005HA - A genuine revelation |
| Review Date: October 26, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mr. G. Wright, UK |
| I bought the EeePC this last week after my old Thinkpad finally died.
After checking all the netbook reviews on line and in a couple of UK magazines it seems Asus started the whole netbook thing, so why not stay with the experts? It is a remarkable piece of kit. Windows XP is easy to use, we all know it, and you don't need any more and I'm assured by those nice geeky fellas on the net that I can speed up the OS with a few tweaks should I need to. But you won't. OK, the screen is still smallish but for web browsing you need nothing else, it's easily fast enough. Firefox is my browser of choice but apparently Chrome might work even better. Picture quality is excellent, it runs Youtube vids without any jumping, even in full screen, and BBC's iPlayer works brilliantly too. I connected to my BT home wireless connection in a minute (just take the ref number from the back of the wireless box) and er... that's it. This is brilliant. It's attractive neat design is something a bit special and the little Eee looks like it could be a piece of Apple kit (I wish) and the neat 'press F9 three times to return to factory settings' offers peace of mind for those of us who can't be bothered with too much fine tuning. And here's the real performance proof: I bought Eidos Football Manager 2010 on line two months ago. It downloaded and - to my amazement and son's delight - runs perfectly on the EeePc, despite the claimed much higher chip and graphics demands of the manufacturer. So, consider what do you really need from your lap top? I really don't care that they may be faster machines, if they are Microsoft will just burden them with more stupid OS software to slow it down (yes, I have suffered Vista elsewhere already) I'm a journalist and have suffered a variety of keyboards over more than 20 years. This one is good enough. The touchpad mouse works well and is very like the old IBM Thinkpad machine I used, but you can always pick up a cheap i-red mouse for a few quid if it really bothers you. I am genuinely impressed. with the little EeePC 1005 HA (and still unsure whether the N280 chipped HAH is 30 quid better).. and it seems to be a bargain. If nothing else, you will not be disappointed and if you want a bigger screen, you can of course plug in a monitor. |
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