Eee PC 1005HA…
…yet another netbook from Asus
Asus just can’t seem to help themselves right now - they’ve revealed two more models: 1005HA-M and 1005HA-H. Granted, these two new Eee PC variants have a lower spec (more on this below) than the Eee PC 1008HA but I think the company may be losing sight of their goals. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t have a clue what Asus want; are they aiming to dominate every single niche in the netbook market? If so, pushing out 101 new models per year will not work. I want to understand why model X is better for me than model Z (apart from the obvious price tags). From my perspective, the Asus strategy (whatever it is) sucks. Yeah, I know they’ll no doubt say they are ‘…responding to market demand’! Enough of my perspective, here’s the brief…
on the nuts and bolts. As you’d expect with any decent piece of hardware the Eee PC 1005HA-M comes with the following goodies under the bonnet: 1.6GHz Atom N270, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive, WiFi, a 6-cell battery (allegedly, you’ll get 8 hours of use out of this), a crappy 1.3 megapixel webcam. All this for €299. I’m not quite finished yet, there’s no Bluetooth! I know that this seems pretty irrelevant to some readers but I find this particularly annoying as I still own a number of Bluetooth enabled devices, in particular my phone, which I’d like to use/synch to my computer. Am I really the lost voice in a sea of techies???
The 1005HA-H variant has pretty much the same running gear as the 1008HA. Improvements in the 1005 includee two extra USB 2.0 ports and a 6-cell battery (the Seashell has 5-cell) and a price of €349 . Expect to see both variants in your Euro stores by July.
P.S We haven’t bothered putting an image up because the Eee PC 1005 looks just like the 1008!
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