All good comment but in fairness a few things should be pointed out.

The 1000HE is still being sold alongside the 1005HA and as far as I know is not being terminated. The 1000HE sells here (Australia) and in all the other markets I am aware of with the 6 cell 8800mA/h battery found in the up spec 1005HA. Given the identical hardware I doubt there will be any difference to battery lfe between models.

The inability of the 1005HA to play youtube and other HD content is down simply to limitations within the implementation of the chipset and is never going to be any better until (if) the ION chipset arrives with us regardless of the N270 or N280 being used.

Screen size is limited currently to 10.1 and a resolution of 1024x600 simply because of Microsoft licencing conditions for an ULCPC Windows XP licence at a heady cost of $28 to the manufacturer last I heard.

As I understand it, if a manufacturer makes an Atom based netbook with larger than 10.1" screen, higher resolution than 1024x600, more than 1Gb of RAM or more than 160Gb HDD then they no longer qualify for a ULCPC licence for XP and pay the fully inflated price.

You will see that a few newer models such as the HP 5101 are offered with an inhanced screen resolution now and the prices reflect the increased XP licence cost.

In round up, short of the changes in style there is nothing to place the 1005HA above the 1000HE and indeed if you wish to upgrade your internal hardware the 1000HE is still superior.

I suspect this will remain the case until the release of the ION based units which with the halt on new models by some manufacturers may be the better part of a year away.

Regards
Dec

my sister just recently got the new 1005ha n280 and the 160gb hdd is actually 2x 80gb drives.

If they would take the screen out to the edge instead of having that wide one inch border around it and make it a 12" display I would buy a black one.
Would make a sweet Linux Laptop.

This is just another netbook with same flavour like others products.