ASUS Eee PC 1005HA Review
Let’s take a look at ASUS Eee PC 1005HA. We looked at ASUS Eee PC 1008HA a while ago. 1005HA is a little cheaper but has same spec with longer battery life. 1005HA has very similar build to 1008HA but is not as slim. It has nice glossy black lid, very prone to fingerprints. So you want to keep that cloth handy. Let’s take you around the ports. One thing about Eee PC 1008HA is their seashell design, which is their previous version. It was very thin and you didn’t have a full VGA port. In 1005HA, on the other hand, you’ve got a full VGA port, not a mini one and not an adapter on the bottom. Some people prefer that outward VGA for easy access. You’ve got one USB on the left hand side. On the front, you’ve got no ports. On the right hand side, you have a three-in-one card reader, microphone and headphone jacks, two additional USBs, which bring the total number of USB ports to three, and an Ethernet port. In the back, there is a six-cell battery, which is quite flush with the system.
You’ve got the 10 inch LED display, which is typical for most ASUS netbooks on the market now. Just a quick note about the keyboard, you have the pretty much same keyboard layout as the Eee PC 1008HA. One notable difference is the full-size shift key. The keys are a little flat but that’s not a deal breaker. Nice keyboard feel and decent typing time. Down to the trackpad, it is identical to the previous version of 1008HA. You’ve got the trackpad that is absolutely flush with the deck and the only thing that will differentiate it is these small dots. You have a single mouse bar, where a right- and left- button bar would be preferred. The response, however, is quite good with little sound when clicking it.
As for the insides of ASUS Eee PC 1005HA, ASUS keeps the same spec they have used in the previous generations of netbooks. You have an Intel Atom processor, N280 with 1.66 GHz top speed, 1 gig of RAM, 160 gigabyte hard drive, which boots into windows XP. Pretty standard performance. One thing we like is the software bar ASUS added on the top of the window, that brings you some of their proprietary software. What makes ASUS Eee PC 1005HA stand out from the rest of the netbooks on the market is the battery life. This is the longest running netbook we’ve had and it is a little shy of 9-hour battery life, a really nice package in terms of battery life. The bettery also doesn’t protrude much from the system.
