My Review on Asus EEEPC 1002HA

This is my very first time to write a review online and on my anonymous blog.  My goal is to give back my knowledge and share it to people, and I hope that  I can be of some help to some people on this blog because there are very few reviews on this netbook as of now.

Moving ahead, I really love this netbook!  It rocks!  When I first saw this netbook, it was inside a beautifully crafted black box with all the accessories, that includes the charger, battery, cd, manuals and a netbook bag that perfectly fits the netbook.  I’m a bit concern with the bag because everytime I put it inside the bag, it hits the zipper and definitely scratches the netbook.  Friendly advice to new users, be careful when inserting and taking it out from the bag!

I love the screen size and it is a matte non-glossy finish.  Screen resolution and quality is kinda awful and gave me a lot of headaches when I read and watch some educational stuffs.  It looked like that it still has a plastic on top of the screen and looks rubbish and resolution of the screen is not good.  Maybe it is my first time to use a netbook that’s why I’m not used to this kind of resolution and low quality LCD screen.  I even went back to Simlim to check other netbooks, Acer’s netbook’s LCD looks more superb than 1002h under the shop’s lighting condition.  I managed to slightly fix this problem by buying an LCD screen protector.  Just my suggestion, get a glossy screen protector to improve the screen quality and also lightings of the LED type LCD screen.

This netbook is perfect for me, because I can’t play high-end games properly (which makes me more productive) while I can still watch movies and also view educational videos with very good audio and video quality.  Sound quality is great compared to some mono and cheap netbooks that I’ve seen.

I also like the way they designed the body of the netbook.  The top is brushed aluminum and looks really solid.  It looks cozy and really “high end”.  Bottom line, love the design even if you compare it with Sony VAIO (which is really overrated!). 

About the keyboard, I’m a typist since highschool and I can say that the keyboard layout is perfectly fine with only few stroke problem, not because of the layout, but because of my typing skill =).  I wonder why some people are having problem with the shift key on the right which I think is perfectly fine!  It’s like a normal keyboard.  My conclusion is because they don’t know how to type properly and use 11 fingers for typing =)

Key functions are great and can’t say more on the layout and how they alligned the function keys and some other especial keys, pretty normal for a laptop.  I love how they added an extra “fn” key right beside the cursor keys.  It made browsing my ebooks very easy because everything you need to move around a page is there.  One big problem I encountered on the keyboard is when using these especial keys inside a dark room.  Every laptop has its own placement of special keys and there are no standard, and if you’re not yet used to the layout or you use different laptops, then you’ve a problem of always looking for it and zooming your face on the keyboard to find the right function key.   If they can just add a customized-controllable background lightings on the keyboard will be really perfect for typing on any condition, which I think netbooks are really built for.

I also love the Elantech technology they used on the keypad.  It’s like using a Mac; pretty easy to navigate and really responsive.

It doesn’t really get hot even if using it with 100% cpu for more than 20 minutes, transferring my ebooks to pocket pc while tagging it and at the same time watching movie, browsing internet, skyping, etc…   I’m a lazy guy and love to type and watch on my bed and putting my laptop on my chest.  I just need a thin layer of cloth to be more comfortable.

It’s pretty light for a mobile powerful computer and had a really good deal because it came with a free external DVD drive.  This is one of the best mobile computers that I’ve ever used.  This is also perfect for people who only need to use a laptop to type, browse the net, do some MS Office standard work, and you’re not a real power user or a gamer  It can do most of the things I need for a mobile computer.  I’ll give it 5 out of 5 rating.

~ by anonymous88 on July 6, 2009.