Great netbook, but lacks in performance
The ASUS Eee PC 1005HA-PU1X-BK Netbook is overall a very great netbook. I bought this netbook because of the rave reviews about its portability and battery life. These held true. Its light, small with great battery life. The main drawback of this netbook is the performance compared to laptops. Quality: The netbook's build quality is top notch, as expected from a company like ASUS. There is little to no give in the keyboard, and the keyboard design makes it easy to type even though it is only 92% the size of a full sized. The touchpad is very responsive and the raise dots make it easy to know where the touchpad is. The mouse buttons are a single button that rocks back and forth, which is kind of strange at first, but you get used to it. The screen has great viewing angle and is very bright. Features: This netbook packs the Intel Atom N270 1.67GHz CPU, with Intel integrated graphics and 1GB of RAM. This processor is okay for surfing the net, but watching flash videos or HD movies is definitely not one of the strong points of this computer. Upgrading to the max 2GB is easy and a must if you want to run Win7. I went from the preinstalled XP to Win7 to Jolicloud (a linux variant). If you don't need windows only applications, installing linux is the way to go. It makes this thing blazingly fast. no DVD, but thats not a biggie. Overall: Lacking performance in the CPU and GPU, this netbook is little more than a computer to surf the net on. 7/10
XReflection
Baltimore, MD