Asus Eee PC 900: Nearly 9 inches of joy

AnonymousTue 4 March, 2008 1:41pm

cool, i'm sold! Hope they have enough to supply this time ;D

Rory, any news on the chipset/proc combo? Hope they upgraded that too (preferably to the intel atom setup)

PS the standard res on the first gen is 800x480, i should know, i'm currently ruining my eyes on one of those at home

DavidRGilsonTue 4 March, 2008 2:19pm

Thanks for that, looking forwards for this one.
The screen does look like a slightly different aspect ratio, but we'll see.

AnonymousTue 4 March, 2008 3:41pm

I agree 800x480 is rather cramped most of the time. I plug mine in to a normal LCD screen, keyboard and mouse if I'm working for any length of time on it at home (it's my main PC).

If I were choosing again, I would be thinking of spending £300 on a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Ubuntu on it. For me, low price is more important than low weight and small size though.

AnonymousTue 4 March, 2008 4:37pm

not the only 9 inches of joy. if i am to blow my own horn

AnonymousTue 4 March, 2008 7:51pm

Why are some models black and some models white? I prefer black. I hope there's a black version of the Asus Eee PC 900.

Rory ReidWed 5 March, 2008 9:26am

Some models are even pink. Or Blue!

the dandy pWed 5 March, 2008 10:12am

this looks like the asus eee pc that most people have wanted since the beginning, however...while it's got the portability nailed £300 is getting awfully close to the low-end dells of this world.
You could even buy 3 Elonex £100 laptops and strap them together, you'd have almost a whole gigahertz of processing power then!

AnonymousWed 12 March, 2008 8:48am

get the white. then you can stick any colour skin you like on it. and change clours every month too if thats suits your style. coloured skins dont look good on a black base.

AnonymousWed 12 March, 2008 3:23pm

standard res is 800x400 on the 701

AnonymousSun 6 April, 2008 1:43pm

man that looks awesome! i cant wait till it comes out in the uk

AnonymousThu 10 April, 2008 9:42am

thats great

the only thing getting me uncertain was the tiny screen

this sure solves the problem

linux all the way

AnonymousThu 10 April, 2008 9:45am

or green!

;D

AnonymousSat 10 May, 2008 5:15pm

have really deliberated on whether to go xp or linux. For 8gb more, and then end up installing xp for eventual use over linux, knocking off some of that 8gb, doesn't really make too much sense to me. At most perhaps, the face-value attraction is of having 8GB more and linux+XP combo where I would end up only using one.

Just bought my black version of xp 12gb (looks identical to my black asus 12.1 inch I bought 3 yrs ago)...looking forward to it in a few days time. I don't fancy skin changing anyway...

Will leave my user review in a week's time.