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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
4.5 stars
"It's so cute!!"
Pros: It's very portable and attractive, runs like a charm, keyboard is still fairly spacious, great display, also has a wonderfully large hard drive.
Cons: No optical drive, but to be expected in a netbook. Fan is a bit noisy, and battery life is about 4 hrs instead of 6 (3-cell battery version). Speakers are also a little tinny.
Summary: I love love love this computer. I haven't upgraded to the max 2GB of RAM, but since it runs so smoothly already, I'm not sure if I really need to. I'm a college student, so I mainly use the thing for surfing the net, writing papers, and watching anime online (nerd that I am). I'm a big fan of the large hard drive as well, and the monstrous iTunes so far hasn't eaten the little thing to pieces, so I can store my big fat music collection on it, and run iTunes in the background of my other programs without any hiccups.
As a music lover, though, the speakers leave something to be desired, but a good set of headphones or some other speakers (I'll connect my iHome to it sometimes for bumpin' parties XD) fixes that ^^
Also, the fan can be really, really loud >< I honestly don't mind, and it's not going ALL THE TIME, so *shrug* I guess that's a small price to pay for such a nice machine.
Where to buy
Asus Eee PC 1005HA (Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, XP Home, blue):
$323.99 - $349.99
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