Sheesh
ASUS, are you being serious here? Not a day after your
Eee PC Seashell really
emerged on the scene in official fashion, here you go trying to rob it of its 15 minutes. Yes, friends -- rather than letting the 1008HA be a diamond in the rough in the Eee arena, it seems as if the company has a whole mess of thin-and-light netbooks planned. Both the 1005HA-M and 1005HA-H have been revealed overseas, with the former taking a lower-end approach with a 1.6GHz Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, no Bluetooth, WiFi, a 6-cell battery (supposedly good for 8 hours of use), a 1.3 megapixel webcam and a €299 ($405) price tag. The 1005HA-H -- not to be confused with the already detailed 1005HA-M, naturally) -- includes most of the same internal gear as the Seashell, though it does step things up with two extra USB 2.0 ports, a 6-cell battery (versus a 5-cell in the Seashell) and 0.3kg of extra heft for €349 ($473). Both machines should launch in France by July, and we'd say the real kicker is that both purportedly boast removable batteries, very much unlike the Seashell. See there, we knew they'd set themselves apart somehow! The full specs list is after the break.
posted May 15th 2009 8:18AM
Sacre bleu!
After reading that spec table to find the differences, my brain is too addled to think about cordon bleu.
This is a nice one, I need Bluetooth capability. I would like to see Intel develop a dual processor for one of these netbooks.
Heh, ham.
1336x768 please.
1366x768 would be nicer.
See engadget, there is this concept called "choice", it is actually very good.
There's also this concept called "customer confusion" and that's not as good.
I'm having real trouble deciding now: 1000HE, 1005HA-H, or 1008HA?
Hmm, let's see. You want the best one, so which one do you pick? Probably the most expensive one! Not really that hard. Look on dell's website, it has 3-4 "trims" per laptop, that's basically what these are.
The concept is good? How about actual choice? Is it good too? Or just the concept? Seminal discharge.
I still don't get Eee!?!
Who can even keep track of all the EEE models now
It's not really that hard to follow them...
The numbering scheme is based off screen size, (700 series= 7" screen, 1000 series= 10" screen)
H= Hard Drive
A= Atom Processor
As for the second H and the H and D and all that, I have temporarily forgotten what they stood for, but it's not really that important.
Easy to follow naming scheme if you have about half a brain.
Instead of making dozens of models, maybe they should just let people choose their own configurations. Surely it won't cost more than producing all these different models?!
You see, that's the curse ASUS has right now. They are not fully in the US and must have a bunch of preconfigured models to sell. They are completed in Taiwan and shipped to resellers to sell as they left the factory. If ASUS had a manufacturing plant here, they could have the barebones be sent here and then customized, but ATM they do not.
Start the 10" models at 1000 and work up, 1001, 1002, 1003 ....
I could have handled that even if we would have been at 1023 by now...
But 1005-HA-X vs. 1005-HA-M? WTF Asus, just ... no....
Thank you, Asus, for flooding the already saturated netbook market with more and more units. The one-trick Eepc pony is still riding strong.
I agree with the above, that choice aint a bad thing - at least not for the tech savvy among us. However for those less savvy than your average Engeekotron, I'm sure that the retail sector will naturally limit the amount of models that actually hit the shop shelves (yes there are still places where things are sold off of shelves), therefore avoiding the possibility of any recently converted luddite's brain short-circuiting and leaking a waxy-brain-type-substance into said hypothetical shelved bounty of Eee's.
Although, on reflection I do remember the media scares here in the UK in the 90's warning about the dangers of having too many Eee's - ASUS obviously missed this ;)
Alright, give me a Ham on 5, hold the Mayo.
enough about these Eee PC's. Is this the only news Engadget can find?
I mean no one buys them in the US. Can't they get some new news? I mean I'm not like pissed off but
Come on. Eee PC? Big news?
I bought one. I'm typing this comment with it.
Yes, I love my 1000h (also on it right now), your little version of the US must really suck without Eee PCs.
Sorry for those who are bored with EeePC news. If it is new it should be news for people. I am in the US and love the Eee series. It is not a good as my Mac but a reasonable travel substitute until Apple brings out a 10 inch device. I have had over 8 hours every time but only if the resolution is lowered.
well at least the battery lasts long!
When are the dual core atoms coming?
ASUS definitely ripped of Macbook Air's design with this one, it's sad when Taiwanese companies start to rip off Apple.
http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/macbook-air.jpg
Oh yeah, looks so much alike!
Not even close. In fact I like ASUS Seashell design more than Air from Apple (tried out MacBook Air in Store - did not really like it, and you can't CLICK by tipping the Touchpad!).
Typing this comment on a 1005HA-M. I would have bought the H version (because of Bluetooth) but they released it after the M and I just could not wait.
I am very satisfied with the Netbook, have Windows 7 installed on it. It bothers me that the HDD has 4 partitions right out of the box. 2 - Normal (70+GB each) and 2 Hidden, i am not sure what they are for. One of the hidden partitions might have the XP Installation files.
From Europe with regards, Rebrain.
I'm still waiting on the dual touchscreen netbook, mind you.
I thought Asus said they were going to lay off all the ridiculous numbers of netbook SKUs this year? That went out the window fast.
That shiny screen stinks. My husband has the 1000he & I got the 1007ha and the 1000he looks so much better