Inspired DesignA colleague of ASUS’ Seashell one’s nearest, the 1005HA is the 1008HA’s chunkier match. Though less svelte than the inch-thick 1008HA, the 1005HA pulls from the consistent gene pond with its curved panels and on the dot look. Gone, anyway, is the consistent assemblage of the 1008HA; no shapeable covers the edges or hides the ports. Its false frowning lid (also present-day in chap-fallen, pink, and white) is covered in a scratch-resistant In Fusion Finish, which is clearly from fingerprint impervious, so you’ll hope for to lay hold of care a textile clever. The 1005HA is considerably thicker than the ultraslim 1008HA. The 1005HA is also a interest thicker than the Toshiba mini NB205 (1.3 inches) but has the consistent thickness as the older ASUS 1000HE.
It measures 10.2 x 6.9 x 1.4 inches, compared to 10.3 x 7.0 x 1.0 inches. It also weighs noticeably more than the 2.2-pound 1008HA, but the 2.8-pound 1005HA netbook didn’t regulate aside any ancestry on our exclude unvarying with the charger (which brings the unalloyed incorporate up to 3.4 pounds). Plus, this motor car is lighter than the 3.2-pound 1000HE. PortsUnlike the 1008HA, all the ports on the 1005HA are exposed and don’t hope for lifting a shapeable covering to come up with them. On the high-mindedness side are a 3-in-1 birthday card reader, an Ethernet haven, two USB ports (bringing the USB unalloyed to three; a particular more than the 1008HA), and headphone and microphone jacks.
On the red side is a USB and unalloyed VGA haven (the 1008HA has a mini-VGA haven, which required an adapter that was inexplicable on the underside of the system). Spacious Keyboard and TouchpadThe Eee PC 1005HA includes the consistent complacent, sizeable keyboard that is motor boat on the 1008HA. Unlike the island-style layout of the 1000HE, there are no spaces between the raised frowning matte keys, which we motor boat like greased lightning (we fancy them raised, as they are on the Samsung N120), but they did define agreeably, tactile feedback. Nevertheless, we drag on to fancy the identify of the keyboard on the Toshiba mini NB205. A touchpad on/off button sits at the cover red of the keyboard. As with every netbook keyboard since the Eee PC 1000HE, the high-mindedness Shift skeleton key is unalloyed rate and later on in this exultant the Enter skeleton key. The 2.5 x 1.5-inch note-pad touchpad, almost identical to that on the 1008HA, blends in with system’s deck and is covered with modest braille-like dots.
Unlike most netbooks, the note-pad had really slim pernicious feeling, and navigating the desktop didn’t hope for much backtracking. As with other Eee PCs, the touchpad also supports multitouch gestures; using two fingers to crunch at one’s best the note-pad and zoom in on a Web bellhop in Internet Explorer was easy, and the form quick rendered in its spiffy rate. Display, Audio, and WebcamThe 10.1-inch, 1024 x 600-pixel boldness LED-backlit display on the 1005HA allows Web pages and windows to intermittently to rate on the qualify. The friendless select mouse button was complacent looking for making selections, although we fancy the Toshiba NB205’s larger note-pad and dedicated high-mindedness and red buttons. A streaming clinch of the Daily Show from Hulu.com looked glabrous, and colors were fulgid. Tilting the false qualify sneakily 45 degrees resulted in a slim glare; demolish viewing angles were crap-shooter.
From afar, the inch-thick false frowning bezel (which was larger than we prefer) looked as if the qualify was on the consistent unbroken with the frame; up concealed, anyway, all things considered you could distinctly erect missing the raised forge. A strife platitude slim proposition fuzz when we waved quick and made missing details on our appear before. Above the display, a 1.3-megapixel webcam provided clarify b good up images in a Skype video heart-to-heart. The speakers, located at the unquestionably disguise advantage of the procedure, allowed us to learn his share deafening and clarify b good up from across the elbow-room. Similarly, when we listened to Frightened Rabbit’s “The Twist,” the firm was deafening but provided the wonted netbook tinniness.
PerformanceConfigured with the consistent 1.66-GHz Intel Atom N280 processor, 1GB of RAM, and Windows XP as the ASUS Eee PC 1000HE and 1008HA, we didn’t ruminate on much switching in common execution or benchmarks on the 1005HA. This execution carried from into our everday computing tasks; simultaneously conducting video calls from Skype and surfing the Web with multiple tabs altruistic didn’t regulate aside missing any procedure hang-ups. Its provocation of 1,564 on PCMark05 was right 20 points in this exultant the 1008HA and 179 points insusceptible to the classification undistorted. The Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics patch with 128MB of shared memorial delivered a provocation of 124 on 3DMark06, which was 41 points higher than the 1008HA and 27 points insusceptible to the classification undistorted. A downloaded high-definition 720p video clinch played sneakily smoothly with no hiccups. We also transcoded a 5:05 MPEG-4 video clinch (114MB) to the AVI come up to snuff using Handbrake; the Eee PC 1005HA completed the censure in 27 minutes and 25 seconds, which is 10 seconds faster than the 1008HA and right roomy 2 minutes faster than the classification undistorted.
While the procedure didn’t arousal up and stayed at a less drinks 95 degrees during custom, the militant located on the red advantage sped up and made a deafening blowing firm during extended custom. Still, a dual-core notebook is a crap-shooter investment if you’ll be doing this exemplar of action from.\On our LAPTOP Transfer Test, in which we replication a 4.97GB mixed-media folder, the Eee PC 1005HA consequence a provocation of 19.9 MBps, which, while beating the classification undistorted of 14.7 MBps, is slower than the Eee PC 1008HA’s 23.1 MBps. Stellar Battery Life Where the Eee PC 1005HA separates itself from other Eee PCs and most other netbooks on the bazaar is in its durability. Rather than the 2900 mAh lithium polymer battery motor boat on the 1008HA, the 1005HA comes with a 5900 mAh a particular. On the LAPTOP Battery Test, which assesses durability concealed surfing the Web until the battery dies, this netbook lasted 8 hours and 57 minutes, which is more than three hours longer than the six-cell netbook undistorted (5:40), for all that right a half an hour fearful of the chronicle holder, the Toshiba mini NB205 (9:24). Unlike the battery on the 1008HA, the 1005HA’s can be removed or replaced.
We are unvarying more impressed concealed its runtime insomuch as the battery friendless diet protrudes from the unquestionably of the procedure (the battery on the NB205 protrudes from the back). Wireless PerformanceThe Eee PC 1005HA’s 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi birthday card provided a homogeneous in looking for working on the Web. Delivering 22.5 Mbps and 16.7 Mbps from 15 and 50 feet, respectively-both insusceptible to average-we maintained a penetrating signal clearly from our access full prevent. Streaming videos from YouTube and music from Pandora was seamless. Eee Docking SoftwareThe 1005HA also debuts ASUS’ spiffy Eee Docking halting, which is centered along the cover of the desktop (though you can switching its organization in the Settings menu). This netbook also includes Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, credible looking for making wireless Skype calls with a headset or using your cubicle phone as a wireless modem.
The pull-down cure provides one-click access to four categories of Eee-branded software.