Eee PC 1000 HA

Asus Eee Pc 1000 HA

Seems like Asus is just playing games with America. You have to really watch what your looking for and make sure if you want the PC with the new Intel Atom in it. I almost bought one, but found that there are more Intel Mobile and Centrino cpu's in alot of them and they do NOT have the SSD but a hard drive in them. So if you buy one thinking you can drop it that it won't break, it will with a hard drive in it. So beware!

I thought I could find some testing here At Tom's, but NOOOOOOOO!

Come on, someone at Tom's Hardware should have, by now, tested some of these. WZUP?

Seems a bit silly to suggest that you're buying the PC with the intention of dropping it. But, I get your point. I have what I think is a very valid complaint. I researched the mini's for a couple of days; most of them. They all have their pros and cons as with any item but I felt the main important difference is the key board size. And I finally decided that the Asus Eee PC 1000 HA (without blue tooth) was the one. The reason I strongly felt that it was better than the others is because it's keyboard is a mere 92% smaller than a full sized keyboard (not 80% smaller) and still has the 10 inch screen (as well as the economy price tag). So, I went to Best Buy today and put my hands on it. I was devastated to find a major problem. I was tipped off to the problem in many other blogs and it's true that the right shift key is WAY too far (all the way) to the right with the up arrow on it's left side. (Backwards in my opinion) But what really makes me crazy is that the brilliant minds that laid out the keyboard actually put a quarter inch plastic spacer to the left of the up key...... Dig it? To the right of the question mark is a big space of plastic (for what reason?) and then the up key then all the way to the end of the row is the shift key. It makes no sense at all!! It's like re-arranging the furniture in Helen Keller's home while she's on vacation..... For what; planned aggravation??? Are the designers suggesting that the right shift key is rarely used?? That the up arrow is so much more important so they chose to give the up arrow precedence and make you reach for the shift key? Is it just me?..... does anyone else every capitalize a word on the left half of the keyboard while typing?!!!!! And why would the designer exacerbate the problem and eliminate a quarter inch of very important and dear real estate on a keyboard that is 92% smaller to begin with? THE SOLUTION IS SO DAMMED SIMPLE!! They should have made the space key (which is always wider than a normal key) where the plastic spacer and the up arrow is (which puts it in exactly the correct place, and put the arrow key all the way to the right where it may be used when needed. I have read that maybe it is possible through software to flip the shift and up keys around but you still have the quarter inch spacer that you have to hurdle for no reason!! Their stupidity lost a buyer!!