Asus 10.1" Eee PC 1005HA Black Netbook

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Seems to be the standard price for this size of netbook. Wouldn't call it a deal till this size is going for around $250.

I got a refurb from woot sellout and I can't see any evidence that it was ever sold to anybody, everything looks and works like brand new for $250. Others have reported case scratches and stuck keys, so I must have been lucky.

ZZF's pricing always breaks my heart a little. I jumped at a 1000HA in December for $325, and not long after they were under $300. Several weeks later, for the old price you could get a system with the newer processor (N280), longer battery life, 11n wifi, and better keyboard. Now those are headed below $300. Ces't la vie.

Yeah, I wish this was at this price when I bought my HP Mini. I personally don't like the 1000s, but these 1005 and 1008s are super sleek.

This is a good price, but we're going to see a lot of evolution in these over the next 12 months...

Too bad all these places are in California.
Since they raised the sales tax to 8.75%, I'm buying out of state as much as possible. Tired of feeding the beast.

#4 Think I saw the HP mini at a Verizon store. Was very jealous to see the screen is flush with the bezel. I have no idea why the Asus models have ugly 3/4" bezels that remind me of my first 386 laptop. So dated...

Can't find the DVD drive. Since 99.9% of web pages are not wide screen and require you to scroll down, yet this stupid ass thing has a wide screen, it has to play DVD movies. Why else would it be a wide screen? Product designers aren't that stupid are they? Oh, I forgot, they are.

Just seems like the case for the 10" displays are slightly too big. But, since I can't seem to find the right combination of size, weight, batterylife, etc. I might just have to get 1 of these.

They make the bezels bigger to accomodate a larger keyboard, which tends to be one of the main selling point on the units with the large bezels. This model has one of the best keyboards for a netbook out there because it is 90% iirc the size of a normal notebook keyboard. If they made the bezel smaller, you'd have to have midget hands (no offense to midgets) to type on it.

#9 I've heard the bezel-keyboard explanation before, and frankly don't grasp it. Can you enlighten me? Is it a stability issue for when the lid is shut...that is, the bezel provides a solid opposing surface for the keyboard? I don't think I get it, because if my hunch is right, it would apply to notebooks of any size...so larger notebooks would have the same problem, which they don't.

I'm terrible at explaining these things, so i'll do my best. The lid and the base of a notebook are pretty much always the same width. So if screen is wider than keyboard, you can have almost no bezel. If your keyboard is wider than the screen, you have to fill the space with something so that the lid doesn't look funny when closed and leaves parts of the keys exposed. Make sense?

Excellent netbook at an excellent price.
If the CPU matters to you, be aware that this is the N270 Atom, not the N280. ZZF offers both CPU choices on many of its ASUS netbooks. The speed difference is probably imperceptible.

meikgeik wrote:

I'm terrible at explaining these things, so i'll do my best. The lid and the base of a notebook are pretty much always the same width. So if screen is wider than keyboard, you can have almost no bezel. If your keyboard is wider than the screen, you have to fill the space with something so that the lid doesn't look funny when closed and leaves parts of the keys exposed. Make sense?

Oh geez #11, not only a good explanation, but I think it finally sunk in. Let me paraphrase: what's constant here is the glass/crystal used to make up the display...so if Asus wants a larger keyboard, they have to surround it with more plastic so the edges of lid and base meet up. I think I assumed that the physical size of the display was free to vary.

#11, stupid explanation. You can make the width any size you want, but then make the height a 3 x 4 ratio. These moron designers make the screen wide but the height narrow like a 16 x 9 ratio. You can always add extra space in front of or behind the keyboard so the screen covers it.

#14... I dont have an issue with wide screen and no I dont watch dvds on my laptop. I like the wider screen since it alows me to view my speardsheets, reports and pdfs a bit better at a reasonable size font. DVD's are not the reason most laptops went widescreen.

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