http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/ Engadget Comments for ASUS Eee PC 1008HA reportedly priced at £359 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 21st 2009 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/
hey, how about telling us your impressions about the 1000HE? Amazon price is very good and I might be interrested as it is the netbook with the best reviews.

Xp run ok on it? can you use most softwares normally? any games installed?]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Upgrade the ram to 2gb and you're set. I run itunes, google sketch up and ms offiice simultaneously with no hiccup. Battery life is a 7 hours 30 mins with wifi on and screen at moderate brightness. Turn off wifi and dim the lights and could squeeze 9 hours of text editing!
Its light, quiet, chiclet style keyboard is a pleasure to type on and most importantly it costs less than 400 bucks!]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 21st 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/
P.S check out the ugly directional keys.]]>Mar 20th 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/
Now one of their netbooks is being bashed for having netbook performance? What's the point of reporting on something you have an obvious bias against?]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/
Though I suppose everyone has their own personal wants when it comes to buying a netbook. I look for that sweet spot between size, weight, speed, and battery life.

Battery life is a major point, for me, which leads me to my next point; the 1008HA won't even have the "all day computing" perk that, say, a 1000HE offers. You would have to wait for an eventual 1008HE, assuming it was even going to be released.]]>Mar 20th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/Mar 20th 2009 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/
It plays streaming Netflix videos, and my umm ahh.. xvid/divx files perfectly. The screen size and overall size (and weight) is just right, so that I can just pick it up and move to another area (owrk or home, from room to room) while doing things, and take what I'm watching or listening to with me. I like having a movie ot tv show always on in the background.

It's been very handy while playing D&D. Now I don't carry an extra 8lbs of books, paper and dice, just my 3.4lbs netbook, which lasts through an entire night or afternoon game, plus my travel time to get to a friends house and back.

I've noticed less strain on my shoulder/back from carrying it, as oppsed to my 14" laptop. (For those of you about to tell me I should have gotten a macbook, they cost too much for me. This cost me $340 and does the job, and I do think it looks nice.)

On top of those issues, it plays Starcraft and runs the game emulators I use for when I want some gaming diversion on the go. I didn't buy it to do gaming on a 10" screen, but the few times I've wanted a bit of gaming diversion, it did the job. I wouldn't play newer games on a 10" screen, and I don't know why anyone would want to beyond "bragging rights", which I don't care about.

Anyway, you get the point. It's light (enough) while being small - yet large enough. It doesn't generate a ton of heat. I can use it comfortably just chilling out on the couch/bed/train/plane/park/coffee shop, and it's no hassle.

Maybe one day it'd be handy to have it encode video on the run or somesuch higher-end use, but for now.. ]]>Mar 21st 2009 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/asus-eee-pc-1008ha-reportedly-priced-at-359/http://www.theblogismine.com]]>Mar 21st 2009 5:56AM