Hardware Unboxing the Asus Eee PC 900

looks miles better with the big screen but just how long till they're atom equipped?

 

God how i do want an EEE, But as suggested above, im waiting for the Atom version. Lower power requirements. Also, remember that this is NOT a gaming laptop. Its for communications and basic office tasks with surfing the net. You do not need a powerful UBER computer for that.
I currently have a perfectly good IBM T20 as my travel partner (feel the speed of 700Mhz intel P3) and it does the job, for now. But its starting to fall apart (litterally! ) and it wont last forever.

OH, and black is sexy

 

Later in the year I reckon. Maybe Computex (I doubt it), but more likely September or so.

 

When will I be able to get one in the UK?

 

1st may is the official launch date

We hear eBuyer will be getting fairly decent stock ready for the launch. But all the usual suspects should be okay.

 

meh, for that money id rather have the hp mini-note/2133. Aside from the cpu pretty much every single spec is better, it looks a lot nicer, and is cheaper! (299 for the basic model)
Tho im saving my monies till the full specs of the msi wind are released. supposedly is going to have a 10" screen, intel atom, and a 7 hour battery life!

 

Whoa, now you got me hooked =D. Thats a good deal. Finally bumped up the res, storage and ram. I'd go and buy it hehe.

Now that processor mod from before would really be worth the time. Of course it would kill the battery.

 

sold!

just wish it's 2GB...... any chance you can tell me it's upgradable to 2GB RAM?

 

I just bought a 4G version and it is at my door today.

 

Am I the only one who is utterly uninterested in these things? Tiny keyboard, tiny screen, an underclocked crapelon processor... What's the appeal? It's small, so it's harder to type and you have less screen space to work with? I just don't get it.

 

dude--overclocking the original eee could not be easier--since one of the first offical bios's had the switch b/t 630mhz and the full 900mhz built in. All you have to do it boot into the bios screen and choose between max performance & max battery life, and the core voltage and mhz will be automatically set. Hasnt crashed once for me (running an nlited version of xp). Just search around on eeeuser.com and you'll find what i mean.

 

Portability. I didn't realise quite how small it was until I saw it in the flesh. It made my 12" sub-notebook look massive by comparison.

 

As oasked says, it's about the portability and the fact you don't have to pay through the nose to get that portability - it's not a machine that you'd use as your main machine of course, but it's pretty good for when you're on the move.

 

Plus battery life. For me, mobility and battery life is a clear win - perfect for press trips or liveblogging.

 

huh? the battery life isnt great tbh

 

and don't forget being green.

i am currently using a q6600+8800GTX to program a simple AVR C code. it's using up more than 150w of power idle, and i don't need even 2% of it's processing power. i only need a text editor, even a 486 would be good enough.

 

Well I already get ~2.5hrs with my MBP with the WiFi on (and 99% of the time, a laptop without WiFi is useless to me when I'm on battery). Of course it's four times the size and probably three times the weight, but I already own it too.

 

Amen. DO WANT.

They've basically released a model that takes care of the only gripes I had.

 

I really want one, but we haven´t even got the 700 series here yet I wonder how long we have to wait on this one, or Ill just have to import it

 

WANT!

And a bigger battery, upgraded processor, GPS, Bluetooth, Touch-Screen, Solar panel on the back of the lid, Fingerprint reader, extra storage, memory card reader(s), that kind of thing.