Performance Benchmarks
How does the ASUS Eee PC 1000HA hold up against some standard benchmarks? First, I ran the provided 160GB hard drive (which comes factory partitioned into two volumes) through HDTune. The average transfer rate was 56.4MB/sec, but there are a few segments in there that may be a cause for concern.
My experience with 3DMark06 was a frustrating one. For whatever reason, the first time I ran the basic test, it was able to make it through and give me a score of 68 3DMarks. Not great, but no one expects this Eee to be a graphical powerhouse.
However, when I tried to run the more comprehensive series of tests, I ran into a bit of a snag. The 3DMark06 software gave me an estimated completion time of about 9 minutes, but at about the 10 or 11 minute mark, the Eee PC just froze. It showed me a black screen and refused to be responsive. This happened three or four times before I gave up trying again.
By and large, the ASUS Eee PC 1000H offered a similar level of performance as the MSI Wind U100 when it came to PCMark05. Both netbooks failed to provide a graphics score (and thus failed to generate an overall PCMark score).
The resulting scores for the CPU, memory, and hard drive are fairly close as well, though the Eee’s hard drive (4307) has a slight advantage of over the 80-gigger found in the Wind (3922).
Benchmarks offered no major surprises. This is pretty much what you should expect with a netbook like the Eee PC 1000HA.