Eee PC 1008HA Seashell

There is no shortage of netbooks (ultraportable budget laptops) on the market, but the new ASUS Eee PC 1008HA “Seashell” might prove to be one of the best netbooks yet. The Eee PC 1008HA Seashell features a completely new design for the ASUS Eee PC family of netbooks. The glossy black plastics suffer from very little flex and the keyboard is as firm as even the best business-class notebooks on the market. ASUS claims that the plastics used on Eee PC 1008HA are coated with an “Infusion finish” that makes the netbook scratch resistant. ASUS switched to a new keyboard design on the 1008HA that is 92% of a full sized keyboard, which is a nice improvement over some of the older Eee PC netbook keyboards. The gesture-based Synaptics touchpad is likewise pretty large for a netbook. If ASUS made any obvious sacrifices with the design of the 1008HA then those sacrifices are related to making this netbook as thin as possible.