I bought this to replace a stolen laptop - my husband jokes that I lucked out, because this netbook is so much better than what was stolen from me.

Pluses: Windows XP (not the dreadful Vista - and no charge for "downgrading to XP" as you would pay at Dell). Full-sized reasonably intuitive keyboard to which it is easy to adjust. Very light weight - 3.2 lbs. fits in my briefcase and purse. Fits on the tray table in the airplane, even if some evil person reclines into your space! Long battery life; I've got about 5 hours with normal computing. My previous laptop was good for only less than 2 hours. It's incredibly inexpensive for all these features - great as an adjunct to a regular standalone computer. It doesn't have a disk or CD drive, but does come with several USB ports, so it's easy to hook up outside drives and - get this - there's even an SD-card reader for your camera when you're on the road.

My happiest purchase of 2008. I hate the geeky EEE logo on the front, but solved that problem by taping my business card over it.

Did I mention it's $400 cheaper than the laptop that was stolen from me?

When I bought this product I called a computer person at Amazon via telephone and he verified that I could convert the operating system to XP home edition. When I received the product I could not load any thing on the computer via a external CD rom. I tried everything that the instructions told me and nothing worked. I finally called Asus Eee Tech
Support and they told me it could not be done regardless of what the instructions said so I sent it back. I have yet to receive a confirmation to that affect. Irwin Plank
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I needed this small machine for my work travels and I wanted to get away from the Microsoft trap. I use Apple at home, MS for work, but thought it was time to try Linux. I am very satisfied so far. Don be afraid to use this operating system, and this Asus netbook. Very nice!

Kickass battery. Very compact and light. Ample ports: USB, VGA, SD card, ethernet, audio. The built-in camera is not the greatest - but it is there and useful. The operating system looks a lot like windows, but you don't get Microsoft Office. Bluetooth and wi-fi are useful, but it's really slow at connecting to the wi-fi networks (it has taken me up to 10 minutes to get a glimpse of a connection). And oh, there are weird keyboard shortcuts to switch between languages and stuff that get in the way when you're typing.
Overall, the purchase is well worth it's modest price!

I buy this "netbook" to replace my Eee 701, and is really faster with better battery life, better screen and a great keyboard. I know that the 1000HA has the Intel Atom processor, but this Celeron M with the SuperHybrid engine is really great (The HD transfer performance is better in Powersaver because the multiplier for the FSB, so I use always in that mode). The 701 boot faster, especially with xandros linux, but I just use Hibernation in this machine and i can use it in about 25 seg, that's because I upgrade the ram to 2GB, so if you want a fast start from hibernation don't upgrade the ram, 1GB is sufficient for XP. The bluetooth stack is from Windcom, much better that the standard Xp bluetooth stack. I can use my Sonny Ericcson phone as a remote control. So far this is a great ultraportable computer, but if you don't need the bluetooth the 1000Ah is now a better buy, because the extra hour of battery live.