Asus Eee PC Seashell 1005HA-PU17-BK Review

Contrary to the first reviewer of this product, I actually own THIS product and not the previous generation. I'll keep it short and sweet.

I bought this the day it was released and have had it now for about 5 days. In that time I've upgraded the RAM to the max 2GB, removed the few bloatware programs, installed a full version of Microsoft Office Professional 2007, and upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium. If you want very detailed reviews of this netbook, read the reviews for the 1005HA PU17-BU, it's the exact same one only in blue instead of black.

The only comments I'll make is that it is everything I expected and was looking for, and then some. I didn't like the Windows 7 Starter, it had a few limitations that I didn't like and I had purchased the Windows 7 Home Premium Family Upgrade and had one of my 3 allowed licenses unused. I did the Anytime Upgrade and it took all of 10 minutes, I didn't lose any data, and it works great.

The only glitch I've had so far was when I tried running Windows Update. Every time I started it, my Netgear WGT624v2 wireless router would lock up. With some help from the Netgear Tech Support Forum that problem was quickly fixed. Router's fault, not the netbooks.

As mentioned, apart from the first review listed here by someone who doesn't even own this product, pretty much everything you read about this netbook is true: great performance, amazing battery life, easy to use keyboard, nice display, fingerprint magnet surface. I did months of research and everything pointed to this one (actually, the pre-Win 7 version and this one just improves on that).

If you are looking for the best netbook on the market, regardless of price, look no further.