I can only add a few things to the many good things already said.
This is a sweet laptop. But if you are used to large screens - for instance I have a 24" LCD monitor for my desktop, and a 17" LCD screen on my (heavy! and large!) laptop, both with 1920x1200 pixels - the 1024x600 resolution will seem mighty cramped at first. I wish it were just a tad larger, say 1280x800, but...I'd have to get a 12.1" for that, and none seem to have the combination of features that this little jewel has. I am learning to pop up just one screen up at a time, and to maximize them. This has not proved to be a serious deficiency yet for business and programming use.
The overall construction, fit and finish is great. The LCD screen although small is very viewable with much less fading out from an angle than many other laptops. The built-in camera and microphone work well (Oovoo is great for 3-way or more teleconferences). Sound quality is better than what you'd expect for a netbook this size. The two-finger control for the pad for scrolling and re-sizing is very useful although I still pack a mouse. The buttons on the pad work well when one presses them from the front where your thumb naturally lies when using the pad, rather than trying to press them from above. And the misplacement of the shift key on the right is not an issue for me as I always have used only the left shift key. Battery life is consistently reported at near 5 hours, not the 7 hours they claim, but I have yet to try it out for even that long.
Overall this is a great value for the money, if you can live with the small, limited resolution screen. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat if anything happened to mine, but I wish they'd make a just slightly larger 12.1" version! Get more detail about ASUS Eee PC 1000HA 10-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel ATOM N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, 10 GB E-Storage, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Fine Ebony.
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