The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution. Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low.
Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.
Asus : ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated, a Taiwanese multinational company, produces motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, PDAs, computer monitors, notebook computers, servers, networking products, mobile phones, computer cases, computer components, and computer cooling systems. Additionally Asus has pre-installed various everyday programs; you will find Adobe Reader 9 , E-Cam camera software, Skype , a day trial version of Microsoft Office Excel , OneNote , PowerPoint and Word , Trend Micro Internet Security , some games and several of Asus's own tools which have been specially developed for the Eee range.
This includes the 'Eee Docking' toolbar which expands at the top of the desktop when required, enabling speedy access to various Asus programs. You get a short instruction manual , a warranty card , a small mains adaptor and cable in the same colour as the netbook, a six-cell battery , and a support DVD in five languages German, English, French, Italian, and Dutch.
If you opt for the slightly more expensive HA-H it will also come with a black silicon Eee protective cover, along with a larger battery which should last for more than 10 hours. The warranty is for 24 months including pick-up and return service , with a month warranty for the battery. The keyboard makes a good first impression. Compared with the previous version of this netbook, the keys are still a little wobbly but do offer a good firm response to pressure, so that typing feels comfortable.
The keyboard layout is as before. The flat, square keys are not the best ergonomically; rounded edges would have been better. The keyboard follows the standard layout. The large right-hand shift key is a big plus, allowing you to touch-type easily; small shift keys often lead to typos.
There was no room for a separate number pad , due to the netbook's small size. The Fn functions are marked with light-blue lettering and symbols on the keys; they are activated in conjunction with the Fn key in the bottom left-hand corner of the keyboard. The touchpad is fitted unobtrusively into the hand rest area, and is very hard to locate by touch, as it is not distinguished by any borders or change in level.
Instead the touchpad has a dimpled surface , which does make it easier to control the cursor accurately. But this kind of surface is not to everyone's taste , and to our mind seems somewhat rough and crude. Despite the lack of borders or marking we had no problem using it to scroll horizontally or vertically, as it supports Multi-Touch gestures.
This is a new feature of the touchpad that the previous model did not have. Using two fingers you can perform various actions such as zooming, rotating and scrolling, which makes it easier and more comfortable to work without a mouse.
Asus has provided brief instructions for this by sticking a sticker over the touchpad. The two touchpad buttons are housed beneath a silver strip under the touchpad. Both buttons give firm and pleasant tactile feedback. Asus has used a matt The matt screen surface is a great advantage, as this way only the screen bezel is reflective, making it easier to work outdoors. But with low screen brightness it does become difficult to make out the contents of the screen. It has a native resolution of x pixels.
A higher, interpolated resolution of x can no longer be selected with Windows 7. An external monitor or flat-screen TV can be hooked up to the netbook using the integrated VGA connector. The On the negative side, the brightness of the screen is fairly low overall. It is Using the EeeCTL tool it is possible to unlock some extra brightness and potential from the screen.
But while the picture quality was now convincing, the black value rose from 0. It is up to you whether you would rather have a bright screen or over 8 hours of battery life.
However you should consider that the display controller is put under more strain in ultra bright mode. Should a fault occur, the warranty will not cover it. The netbook's viewing angles are unchanged. Horizontally they are fine, but vertically they can only be described as average.
Like its predecessor, this netbook contains an Intel Atom N processor with a speed of 1. The memory is sufficient even with Windows 7 Starter, but an upgrade to 2 GB would be a good investment, as quite a few applications already stretch the 1 GB to its limits when used in conjunction with Windows 7.
Start-up is quick and Windows reacts rapidly to your commands. HD films cannot be played completely smoothly with only 1 GB of memory; and when using several programs at once the netbook quickly reaches the limits of its processing power, and loading times begin to rise.
But the HA-M is appropriately equipped to handle everyday computer use, barring photo or video manipulation programs. For a performance boost or longer battery life, Asus has included a program called ' super hybrid engine '. It allows you to adjust the clock speed of the Intel Atom N This raises the N to the level of the Intel Atom N To distinguish this model from the Windows XP version we subjected our netbook to a battery of benchmark tests.
First we put our test model through the 3DMark tests. It achieved points in the 3DMark test, and then only a weak points in the 3DMark 03 test. In the 05 and 06 versions it achieved only a very poor and points respectively.
We left out the newest version of the test, as the score would be close to 0. PCMark05 could not be completed without errors. While all the tests ran through to the end as advertised, there were several errors due to the low screen resolution and so a result could not be determined. It achieved only points in the single-core rendering and points in the multi-core rendering.
The OpenGL benchmark produced a few crashes, but after several attempts the netbook scored a measly 30 points. It is not clear where the problem lies, but it is very possible that there is still a driver or software problem here. We let the Super PI calculation run to 1, 2 and 32M.
The 1M calculation was finished after 89 seconds and the 2M after seconds. The large 32M calculation took a very long seconds. This can be put down to the low performance level of the hardware, which was not designed for such calculations. It is a similar story with the WPrime test. The 32M calculation took seconds here and the M calculations needed a very long seconds.
We took measurements using HD Tune Pro. The minimum transfer rate came out as 7. The maximum transfer rate was The design of the HA is based on the slightly slimmer HA model. There's a tapered front lip, but the new model lacks some of the space-saving features of the HA, such as the angled Ethernet jack and hidden mini-VGA port.
While slightly thicker and heavier than other recent Netbooks, it's still a vast improvement over the first few generations of mini laptops, which had a universally boxy, toylike feel. Our review unit was glossy black, which was prone to picking up fingerprints; blue is also available.
The flat, wide keyboard, similar to what we saw on the Eee PC HA, is among the better Netbook keyboards we've used, and the full-size right Shift key is one of those things you don't realize is very important until it goes missing. The touch pad is demarcated by a rectangle of raised dots on the wrist rest, and works well, although we found ourselves going into the touch pad settings and jacking up the default pointer speed.
A single quick-access button above the keyboard is for disabling the touch pad handy if you're using an external USB mouse , and Asus' different preset power profiles are accessible by hitting the FN key plus the space bar. New to this model is a software suite that acts as a software dock popping out of the top of the screen by default, but switchable.
From there, you can access functions such as screen brightness presets and media players. Most Netbook users we talk to are no-nonsense types who just want to surf the Web or send e-mail, so learning the ins and outs of a proprietary menu bar system may not be high in the list of priorities.
The The HA offers a fairly standard set of ports and connections, lacking only the ExpressCard slot we've seen on some high-end Netbooks. We prefer to have our connections out in the open, rather than hidden behind hinged plastic doors as in the HA model , although we have to admit, the 's tiny, angled Ethernet jack was an impressive engineering feat.
With Intel's N Atom CPU, the system was, not surprisingly, on par with other current Netbooks, even those with the slightly slower N version of the ubiquitous Atom.
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