I saw that someone came to my blog by searching “Starcraft II on Asus 1005HA.” What they found would not have told them anything about running that game on an Asus 1005HA.
For future individuals who happen to stumble onto my blog in search of similar information I will give you this.
about 3 weeks ago I actually did try to install and run Starcraft II on my Asus 1005HA (2gb ram, Atom N280, 6 cell battery). It might even still be installed. What I got was 100% unplayable.
So after it took over an hour to actually install the game I opened it up. Oh also you should know that the audio that plays during the installation was skipping. This should have made me think the game would run like crap, but I soldiered on. The starting animation with Tychus skipped HORRIBLY and was nearly impossible to watch. After getting through that I opened up the mission where you have to hold off the Zerg for 20 minutes. That mission is called Zero Hour I believe.
Anyways, as I looked at the in-game timer I saw that it was going extremely slowly. every time 1 second passed on the in-game timer 3 seconds passed on my watch. Also there was an extremely long delay between when I clicked on a unit and when the unit was actually selected which was quite annoying.
The game performed so horribly on my Asus 1005HA that it told me to close applications to increase performance. Unfortunately all my applications were already closed. I was just eyeballing it but the game was running at somewhere between 4 and 8fps, if that.
So in closing I would just like to say that it is definitely not worthwhile to try and install starcraft 2 on your asus 1005HA, unless you want to deal with the game time being 1/3rd of normal time and horrible gameplay. On your asus 1005HA just stick to Starcraft 1.