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Asus Eee PC 900

First seen: 15 april 2008

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Great Deal: $299.00

  • User Score (174)
    8.0 8.0 from 174 reviewers
  • Expert Score (20)
    8.4 8.4 from 20 reviewers
  • Design (8)
    7.9 7.9 from 8 reviewers
  • Value for money (4)
    7.8 7.8 from 4 reviewers
  • Features (2)
    6.8 6.8 from 2 reviewers
  • Ease of use (3)
    5.0 5.0 from 3 reviewers
  • Performance (6)
    6.2 6.2 from 6 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • 20gb solid state hdd, size and price, type documents etc, fully loaded, small footprint
  • short life span, and the battery, runs hot, too hot, slow startup

The new Eee PC 900 offers you more options for your mobile computing needs. Incorporating a shockproof design and weighing less than 1kg, you will find it "Easy to learn, work and play" – making it your best outdoor companion anywhere, anytime. What´s more, it features a 8.9 inch widescreen, a 1.3M pixels webcam, and 12GB and 20GB storage capacities for Windows® and GNU Linux operating systems

Specifications

  • Operating System
    Genuine
  • Operating System
    Windows® XP Home
  • Operating System
    GNU Linux
  • Display
    LCD Size: 8.9" Wide
  • Display
    LCD Resolution: 1024 x 600 (WSVGA)
  • Display
    Display Card: Intel UMA
  • Display
    LCD Type: TFT
  • Color
    Pearl White, Black
  • Color
    Infusion: White, Black, Purple
  • Intel CPU & Chipset
    Intel® Celeron M 353

Release Date

  • First seen
    15 April 2008

Asus Eee PC 900

The Asus Eee PC 900 is the updated version of the Asus Netbook, Eee PC 701. It has an 8.9 in LCD screen with a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels, with more storage, more memory, a multi-touch touchpad, 1.3 megapixel webcam and wireless capabilities. It has built-in stereo speakers. This netbook is said to perform faster than its predecessor. It is in the size of a hard book with dimensions of Width 8.9 in, Depth 6.7 in, Height 1.3 in and weighing at 999g. The Eee PC 900 can last app…

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Asus Eee PC 900

The Asus Eee PC 900 is the updated version of the Asus Netbook, Eee PC 701. It has an 8.9 in LCD screen with a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels, with more storage, more memory, a multi-touch touchpad, 1.3 megapixel webcam and wireless capabilities. It has built-in stereo speakers. This netbook is said to perform faster than its predecessor. It is in the size of a hard book with dimensions of Width 8.9 in, Depth 6.7 in, Height 1.3 in and weighing at 999g. The Eee PC 900 can last approximately three hours on its standard battery.

Features

The 8.9-inch display has a native resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels which is significantly higher than the 800x480-pixel screen on the old 7-inch model. The Eee 900’s screen and high resolution allow most web pages to fit on the display, with no need for horizontal scrolling. The vertical viewing angle and the horizontal tilt need to be adjusted to get a perfect picture. However, the horizontal viewing angle is wide enough to allow two users to watch a DivX movie side by side. The speakers are at the bottom of the system, below the wrist rest. The mouse track pad has a wide aspect ratio to match that of the screen. The left and right selector buttons sport a silver finish making it easier to press. The track pad allows you to scroll horizontally and vertically through documents by swiping two fingers up or down across the surface of the track pad. You can also zoom in or zoom out of pictures by making pinching or stretching movement with your fingers. The Asus Eee PC 900 uses the same Intel Celeron 900MHz CPU as the old 701, but with the backing of 1GB of DDR 400 RAM, which is twice as much as its predecessor. The amount of storage on the Eee PC 900 depends on whether it is a Linux version or Windows XP as an operating system. The Linux model comes with a 20GB of storage whereas the Windows XP model has just 12GB. However, the SD card reader accepts SDHC cards which allows up to 32GB of additional storage. The Asus Eee PC 900 supports flash memory cards, such as Multimedia Card, SDHC Memory Card and SD Memory Card. Both versions of the Eee PC 900 use Samsung flash memory chips rather than an actual off-the-shelf hard disk drive.

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  1. ASUS Eee PC 900 review

    Reviewer: ZDNet
    17 April 2008
    Overall 9
    8.7
     

    The ASUS Eee PC 900 is an excellent update to the Eee PC 701. The keyboard is still difficult to use, but the addition of a larger, higher-resolution screen, a multi-touch touchpad and more storage gives it the edge over its mini-notebook rivals. Read more

  2. Asus Eee PC 900 Ultra Mobile PC

    Reviewer: HotHardware
    17 June 2008

    Perhaps the biggest concern with regard to the Eee PC 900 is price.  In comparison to the 700 series, the Eee PC 900's $549 price tag is easily justified - the unit has a bigger screen, more memory, and much more storage.  But at that price, the Eee PC must compete with much higher performing, larger machines, that also offer more storage and integrated optical drives.  Currently, there are a host of 14.1" to 15.4" notebooks with more memory and storage available at... Read more

  3. ASUS Eee PC 900: Is Bigger Better?

    Reviewer: Tom's Guide
    3 June 2008

    Increasing the screen size does more than let you see a whole Web page; it changes the emphasis of the ASUS Eee PC 900 from portability to compromise. Read more

  4. Asus Eee PC 900

    Reviewer: Wired
    1 October 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    Asus' long-awaited 9-inch (well, 8.9-inch) version of its groundbreaking Eee PC 4G arrives with all the familiar trappings installed. But this time it's a little bigger — in more ways than one. Not only is the screen bumped up from seven inches to nine, the RAM is doubled (from 512 MB to 1 GB), the solid state storage system jumps from 4 GB to 20 GB, and the price takes a leap, hitting the $550 mark. Two inches may not sound like much, but in this case, the modest... Read more

  5. Asus Eee PC 900

    Reviewer: Mobile computer
    17 April 2008
    Overall 8
    8.3
     

    The Eee PC 701 may not have been perfect, but this first mass market, ultra-cheap ultra-portable ticked all the right boxes for a lot of people. And we mean a lot – the Eee PC proved so successful that Asus had problems meeting demand, so it was a foregone conclusion that it would produce an updated model to capitalise on its success. So, five months after the Eee PC 701’s launch, Asus has come up with version two – the Eee PC 900. Superficially, the Eee PC 900 is... Read more

  1. GREAT LITTLE MACHINE

    Reviewer: Edwyn, J&R
    20 November 2008
    Overall 4
    4.0
     

    the 16 gb was the lousy 900 model right from the get go. Asus dumped it after it received tons of complaints. went to the 12gb ssd smaller but twice as fast. I replaced my 16 with a aftermarket 8gb and it is fast as anything.The tect dept at Asus NOW says the 16gb is realy for Linux and XP or anything else runs best with the smaller 12g or the slugest 20gb. Live and learn. but this baby does do what is was made for. PORTABLE UNIT WITH OUT THE FRILS.. good unit would buy... Read more

  2. No Suprises!!

    Reviewer: PriceGrabber
    12 September 2008
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    This machine is great for the things it is designed for. It is small, lightweight and great for an "on-the-go" person. Screen resolution of 1024X600 allows for a full page to load without having to scroll across the page to see it in its entirety. The Zoom in and out with a pinch method on the touchpad is a feature that is not seen on many full sized laptops and reminds me of the pinch feature on the ipod touch. Webcam is OK @1.3 megapixels and a big improvement over the... Read more

  3. Reviewer: PC World
    27 July 2009
    Overall 8
    8.0
     

    I bought this in conjunction with a Western Digital 400 gig USB Drive as a way to always keep my important documents by my side when I'm away from... Read more

  4. Little in size, but little in performance.

    Reviewer: RG, Amazon
    12 December 2009
    Overall 6
    6.0
     

    I absolutely love the portability of the netbook. I can carry it in my purse! However, once I get to Starbucks and sit down to do something as simple as go on facebook, if I open more than one window it will take forever to load. Sometimes there are messages about the virtual memory that cause internet explorer to shut down. I wish this product had more power and capability when it comes to browsing the web, considering that's what netbooks are made for.. Read more

  5. Asus Eee 900

    Reviewer: Epinions
    8 January 2010
    Overall 4
    4.0
     

    I bought my Asus 900 in march of 09 and it never gave me any trouble.Was light and easy to handle and did what I needed for basic web surfing and checking email.It worked well until the battery charger died and I called Asus only to find out the charger has a 6 mo warranty and a new one will cost me $20.I dont know if this is normal for other netbooks but Im cautious of getting another one if I have to replace the battery every 6 mos.Had I known about this website maybe... Read more

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