***The Official Asus Eee PC Thread***

Jihad said:
£350? That's a bit much you can buy some pretty nice laptops for around that price now.

Certainly better than the specs of that!
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The whole point of them is portability.

The 401 still wins imo, although the 900 isnt too bad, 10" is getting a bit large now though!
 
I was going to go for the Asus 900 but I think i'm going to hold off for these coming out in June. The keyboard and everything should be much more comfortable to work with. It should still be very portable looking at the size of it.
 
syke said:
The whole point of them is portability.

The 401 still wins imo, although the 900 isnt too bad, 10" is getting a bit large now though!
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I have the 701 and was really looking forward to the 900. the only bad thing about these small laptops is yes, they are made for portability but the battery is so small it really limits how much you can use it for. my other halfs laptop gets nearly three times the use per charge
 
ATM I'm liking the look of the MSI Wind, just need the 9" version to surface.

I am also considering the asus 900 in june, with the atom cpu.

hhmmm actually, Im ony after a machine to download with abit of portability. Maybe a second hand 701 would meet me needs... runs to check for sale forum.
 
I find the 900 too expensive, yes its small, but there's a fine line on laptops between small and too small and Asus have overshot it, the screen is tiny and the keyboard is hard to use. Combine that with terrible specs, a very limited battery and a price tag of £350, what a rip off.
 
cozm01 said:
I find the 900 too expensive, yes its small, but there's a fine line on laptops between small and too small and Asus have overshot it, the screen is tiny and the keyboard is hard to use. Combine that with terrible specs, a very limited battery and a price tag of £350, what a rip off.
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If you run linux & have the SSD then its a none issue.

I understand what your saying I'm personnally waiting on what the competition offers and certainly want one with ATom CPU & a SSD running ubuntu.
 
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cozm01 said:
I find the 900 too expensive, yes its small, but there's a fine line on laptops between small and too small and Asus have overshot it, the screen is tiny and the keyboard is hard to use. Combine that with terrible specs, a very limited battery and a price tag of £350, what a rip off.
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I'm not disagreeing with you as such, but previous UMPCs had worse spec, smaller screens, worse keyboards and were £700. The battery on the 900 is a definite shame though.
 
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Ordered a 10400 Mah Battery

So yeah the battery is poor on my 900 so I've logged a compliant on the Asus site ans we await as asus are reviewing this !

But in the mean time i've ordered a 10400 Mah battery in white, So this little beauty can be properly mobile.

I'm going to doing some long and boring comuting from York to Norwich on the train so I need something to keep me entertained on that killer of a Journey the new battery should see me right.
 
cozm01 said:
I find the 900 too expensive, yes its small, but there's a fine line on laptops between small and too small and Asus have overshot it, the screen is tiny and the keyboard is hard to use. Combine that with terrible specs, a very limited battery and a price tag of £350, what a rip off.
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thats like saying the DS is too expensive, because its got a smaller controller than a gamecube, doesnt plug into a TV(im probably wrong like??) and has too few buttons. Combine that with the fact its not as powerful as the gamecube and has a limited battery, and that it costs more.. what a rip off?

You pay for the size at a premium, and its not so much a premium as it once was.
If you want an easy to use keyboard and better specs with an alright battery and bigger screen you buy a £280 laptop. This is not a laptop that can be measured by usual benchmarks.
 
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