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

I had previously owned a 15 inch $1099 Win XP Dell Inspiron laptop; a 12 inch $999 Vista Dell XPS laptop and a 15 inch $599 Win XP Compaq laptop. I was disappointed with all of these expensive laptops but I am extremely pleased with the 10 inch 6 cell Asus eeepc 1000 HA which I only paid $389!

It is just the right size and weight and the battery life is 4 to 5 hours which is at least 2 hours longer than my expensive laptops. I thought not having a DVD drive would be a handicap but the $39 "DVD Cloner 6" software program can convert a DVD movie disc into a 4 gig movie file using my desktop PC which can then be transferred to my Asus 1000HA. I am converting all my personal movies for my personal use similar to my conversion from music CDs into MP3. A CD/DVD drive may become obsolete like a floppy drive with jump drives approaching 32 gig and more.

I used an old HP external CD drive to load windows XP programs like Ghost and Partition magic. I will never use Windows Vista again since the bootup and shutdown time on my Asus eeepc is twice as fast.

The 10 inch screen is bright and detailed. Watching a converted DVD movie is a pleasure and the smaller screen guarantees you won't run out of battery life. The charging brick is 1/3 the size of a regular notebook's charging brick. Opening the large bottom cover plate also provide complete access to the RAM memory, 160 gig hard drive and wireless card. This means the Asus eeepc 1000HA is easily upgradable which you can't say the same for the other netbooks.

The weaknesses of a difficult touch pad button and fingerprints are true...but these are minor weaknesses that I can accept given all of the advantage of upgradability, price, weight, battery life and quality. A good wireless mouse solves the weaknesses with the touch pad button.

Please note that I have built three desktops computers with Asus motherboards and I never had any problems with Asus products. Asus invented this class of netbooks and they are much better than similar netbooks from HP, Dell and Acer. The Asus eeepc 1000HA is a highly recommended product. 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.