ASUS Eee PC 900 8.9-Inch Netbook (Intel Mobile Processor, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB Solid State Drive, Linux, 4 Cell Battery) Pearl White
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The new Eee PC 900 offers you more options for your mobile computing needs. Incorporating a shockproof design and weighing 2.18 pounds, you will find it "Easy to learn, work and play" - making it your best outdoor companion anywhere, anytime. The large 8.9? screen size allows for more screen space - making it more comfortable on the eyes reading and editing documents when viewing a single A4 page without the… Product details and pricing info |
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64 Customer Reviews Posted
- The Eee is great and it came with the 5800mah battery
- I have to say even though I have only had the Eee 900 for a few days I love it! I plan on coming back and giving updates as I have them but out of the gates it works as advertised. One thing amazon does not say is that it comes with the bigger 5800mah battery which is great. I haven't done an actual timed battery test but we can surf for about three hours on a charge. Also I tested out video skype(which comes installed) and that works well too. For the more advanced users you can enable a full desktop mode for KDE Linux which as a more familiar windows feel. It takes some work but once you get it installed its easy to switch from the standard tabbed interface to the full desktop interface when you need more flexibility. If you are looking for a very portable laptop with good battery life and a great screen this would be a great choice.
*Update*
Having had the Eee for a while I have to admit that it is difficult to touch type on. I find myself making a large number of typing errors, but given the overall size of this laptop I didn't assume this would be like a full size keyboard. If you are planning to use this as a primary laptop just keep in mind this is a small keyboard. Go to your local retailer and see if they have one of the older models as a display and give it a try. That should give you an idea of what it is like to type on the 900.
*Update* (July 7th 2008)
The battery life seems to be about 2 hours, that is with wifi enabled and 90% of the time spent surfing the net (email, Firefox etc). We realized early on that you cant really charge up the battery with the Eee turned on so every night we shut it down and charge it over night, it is always ready to go 1st thing in the morning, but I think it takes about 4 hours to charge the battery from 10% to 100%. My wife uses it as her primary email and internet machine, it is used at least 5 days a week draining the battery almost everyday. We have yet to see any decrease in the life of the battery - 2008-05-19, 72 of 75 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great Coffee Cruiser - Needs an internal Cell phone
- Tis an amazing system, the larger screen is a delight. The Linux operating system is good and always works, great Coffee Cruiser... The native Linux operating system is fast and makes this computer less susceptible to drive by viruses now it is reported that 1 in a 1000 web pages are poisoned...
This computer is not a Desktop replacement, but it is lightweight and everything else for your mobile computing needs. This and the smaller unit are expensive and should be price for less, but presume there will be more competition for the consumer with adjusted pricing in the near future. I am guessing, but feel the falling dollar value can be blamed for 25% of the current price...
The new unit with the larger screen should have come to market at the $399 price and the older Asus EEE should have dropped to the $199 price point.
The first released Asus EEE unit was a fabulous success with Linux as its operating system, but add Microsoft XP to the unit and watch the system slow down and become almost non-usable with all the malware. This is a take with you system, and if you do not spend an hour each and every day keeping the system virus and advertisement free any windows XP system is going to be a problem... This is a wireless system, completely open to every predator in every library, public WiFi and school setting.
Only area I feel has been neglected at the current price level, where is the bluetooth & internat Cell phone that needs to be part of this $599 EEE PC 900... The size is approaching and above full laptops, and other systems are ready scheduled to arrive on market near or at the $400 price...
I love it the easy, safety and speed of the Linux operating system, and enjoy its amazing ability to locate a wireless signal and be web surfing while my on-line messenger and e-mail is ready almost in the blink of an eye...
Overall it is a very expensive small form system, maybe I stepped up to the counter a bit early to secure the best Coffee Cruiser for my after tax dollars...
The hardware Asus decided upon makes it easy to install almost any Linux operating system you enjoy using.
MT - 2008-05-18, 36 of 63 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Asus EEE PC 20G = Perfection
- I had the EEE PC 4G and once I found out the 20G 900 was coming out, back to the store it went!! If you are on the fence between this and the 4G 701 for $399, I would say the extra $150 for this one is money well spent as you get a bigger screen, which is awesome, allows you to view a web page without having to scroll left or right, 5X the storage, 20 Gigs compared to only 4 Gigs on the EEE PC 701 and twice the ram. Same form factor, and definitely is a head turner. Only caveat is Linux was just not for me, so I slapped on Windows XP very easily using the instructions provided in the user manual and the driver disk provided by ASUS.
- 2008-05-14, 94 of 114 people found this review helpful, Rated:
