Digital Home Thoughts: Asus Eee PC 900 Reviewed!

"The Eee PC 900 is an exciting little laptop on the surface but, when you break it down to the basics, it isn’t all that dissimilar to the original Eee PC – and that throws the whole thing into a state of confusion. What has the Eee PC 900 got going for it? Well, there’s more memory, more storage capacity and a larger screen. That’s it really and, while the trackpad is nice, it doesn’t anything fundamentally important to the Eee PC. The key though is in the screen – it’s that which is the real deal clincher here and the extra screenage is a really important addition, making the Eee so much easier to use and so much more appealing. There’s also the matter of the processor to bear in mind – Asus has said it will be taking advantage of the new Atom CPUs when they become available. That’ll bring more speed and less power consumption to the Eee immediately. That means that if you’re really hungry for battery power and performance then you may be better off waiting, grabbing an Eee further down the line when Atom is unleashed later this year."




Asus has corrected what was one of my only gripes with the original Eee. Unfortunately, they meddled with some other specs that ended up increasing the price, namely adding a much more storage. The new 900 model is still a great deal at $549, but percentage-wise, this is a lot more expensive than the $349 I paid for the current model. I'd have liked to seen a $399 model identical to the original except for the addition of the larger screen, or even just the same size screen, but with a higher resolution.