ASUS Eee PC 900 20G (8.9 Inch Display, 900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB Solid State Drive, Linux, 4 Cell Battery) Pearl White | 
| Brand: Asus
List Price: $549.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 107
Color: Pearl White
Media: Personal Computers
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Linux
CPU Manufacturer: Intel
CPU Speed: 900
CPU Type: Intel Celeron
Processors: 1
System Memory: 1000
Memory Type: DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Drive Size: 20
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Modem: None
Display Size: 8.9
Clothing Size: 8.9" screen
Size: 8.9" screen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 8.9 x 0.8
nv:Condition: New
Operating Systems: LINUX
Platform: Notebook PC
PS/2 Keyboard Connectors: N/A
PS/2 Mouse Connectors: N/A
Serial Communication Ports: N/A
Parallel Ports: N/A
USB Ports: 3
FireWire Ports: N/A
Fast Infrared Ports (FIR): N/A
LAN Ports: 1
Modem Ports: N/A
Audio Out Jacks: 1
Line In Jacks: N/A
Microphone Jacks: 1
VGA Ports: 1
S-Video Connectors: N/A
DVI Video: N/A
Port Replicator/Connector: N/A
Processor Brand: Intel
Processor Class: Mobile CPU
Memory Type: DDR2
Memory Size: 1GB
MPN: 90OA09AA2112111U305Q
Model: Eee PC 900 20G-Pearl
UPC: 884840249429
EAN: 0884840249429
ASIN: B00191PKJK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Compact notebook for students and road warriors with full QWERTY keyboard, 8.9-inch screen, and integrated webcam | | • | Powered by 900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU and pre-installed Linux operating system (compatible with Windows XP) | | • | 20 GB solid-state flash memory drive; 1 GB RAM; 10/100 Fast Ethernet; 54g Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) | | • | Over 40 built-in applications for learn, work and play; up to 3.5-hour battery life | | • | Connectivity: three USB 2.0; VGA output; microphone and headphone; Secure Digital card reader |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The newest generation of its popular Eee PC line, the Asus Eee PC 900 provides the power of a full-sized laptop in a compact body with a larger 8.9-inch screen. Even with the larger size of the Eee PC 900 when compared to the original Eee PC, the new model still weighs under 2 pounds--perfect for students toting to school or road warriors packing away to Wi-Fi hotspots. And because it uses flash memory instead of a hard drive (with 20 GB of storage), the Eee PC 900 is optimal for weathering rough handling and sharing space in overstuffed bags. 
The Asus Eee PC 900's 8.9-inch screen is easier on the eyes, and the integrated webcam makes video chats a snap. | Other features include a 1.3-megapixel webcam integrated into the bezel above the LCD, a Secure Digital memory card slot, Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11b/g), multiple USB ports, and a VGA output for connecting to a monitor. It comes preinstalled with the Linux operating system, and it's also compatible with the Microsoft Windows XP operating system. For the students and professionals, the Eee PC comes with a powerful selection of software to maximize personal productivity--over 40 built-in applications. The Open Office suite of software enables the user to open, edit and create documents, presentations, spreadsheets and databases that are compatible with Microsoft Office. For journalists, photographers and other professionals who need to use a computer in the field to create, to communicate and to collaborate with other colleagues, the Eee PC's combination of power, extreme portability and rugged build makes it the ideal computing solution. 
No technical manual required with the specially designed, user-friendly, and intuitive graphic interface.. |  | It's also a great choice for young students, with a built-in Dictionary that's great for homework, and it includes two modes of intuitive graphic user interface design to accommodate both experienced and inexperienced PC users. The Eee PC also handles your digital images, movies, and music as well as Internet radio. Nicely light at just 35 ounces, the Eee PC 900 has an 8.9-inch wide TFT LCD with a 1024 x 600-pixel resolution (WXGA)--making it more comfortable on eyes than its predecessor. Under the hood is a 900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU with integrated Intel graphics processor, 1 GB of RAM (not expandable), and 20 GB of flash memory solid-state drive (SSD). The SSD provides quiet performance and helps save energy, while its shock-proof solid state design helps to guard against data loss or shock-related damage if the laptop is dropped. In addition to its wireless LAN, it also offers wired Fast Ethernet connectivity and a 56K modem. The Eee PC includes software for Web browsing (Firefox), e-mail, OpenOffice 2.0 for creating and editing word processing documents and spreadsheets, and a suite of other productivity software to help keep you on track. You get three USB 2.0 ports, a VGA output for connecting to external monitors, headphone and microphone jacks, and a Secure Digital (SD) memory card slot. The rechargeable battery provides up to 3.5 hours of battery life (depending on usage). It's backed by a 1 year warranty for parts and labor. Specifications
- Internal memory: 20 GB solid state disk
- Memory expansion: Slot for MMC/SD(SDHC) cards
- RAM: 1 GB DDR2
- Processor: 900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU
- Operating system: Linux (supports Windows XP)
- LCD: 8.9 inches, 1024 x 600 pixels
- Networking: 54g Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), 10/100 Fast Ethernet
- Peripheral connectivity: Three USB 2.0
- External video: One VGA
- External audio: One headphone and one microphone port
- Webcamera: Yes, 1.3 megapixels
- Battery life: up to 3.5 hours
- Weight: 2 pounds (32 ounces)
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.7 x 1.33 inches
Product Description
The new Eee PC 900 offers you more options for your mobile computing needs. Incorporating a shockproof design and weighing 2.18 pounds, you will find it "Easy to learn, work and play" - making it your best outdoor companion anywhere, anytime. The large 8.9? screen size allows for more screen space - making it more comfortable on the eyes reading and editing documents when viewing a single A4 page without the need to scroll left or right. On the top of this screen is the 1.3 Megapixel Webcamera that works synchronously with the 802.11b/g wireless to provide web conferencing anywhere, anytime for easier web communications and increased work efficiency. Another great feature is the built-in 20GB Solid State Disk (SSD) which offers 15 seconds boot times that also makes for a quiet, energy saving, shock proof design, which is ideal for reporters, wildlife photographers and other like-minded outdoor enthusiasts. On the Eee PC 900L 40 applications are pre-installed such as the Linux Operating System, OpenOffice Productivity Suite, Firefox browser, media player and more. Lastly the special FingerGlide makes operating the Eee PC easy and convenient through simple finger movements on the touch pad that allows for scrolling horizontally and vertically through documents by swiping two fingers up or down across the surface of the trackpad, or zoom in or zoom out of pictures by making pinching or stretching movement with your fingers. With all of these features the Asus Eee PC makes for a fantastic purchase as a well-equipped second PC or a Web access tool, so beat the crowds, and get yours today before they sell out! Intel UMA Display Card 1.3 Megapixel Webcamera WiFi 802.11b/g Wireless 10/100Mbps LAN Hi-Definition Audio Speaker and Microphone Memory Card Slot - MultiMedia Card (MMC), Secure Digital (SD) Card, SDHC Connections - 3 x USB, VGA, , A/C charger, Headphone, Microphone, RJ-45 (LAN) Approximate Unit Dimensions - 8.85
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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
 I Really Wanted To Like This Thing, But... June 19, 2008
George
109 out of 132 found this review helpful
I love the idea of the Asus Eee PC. I've long wanted a nearly full-featured laptop in this size.
So after reading so many positive reviews for this I decided to go ahead and get one. Sadly, after a mere two days playing with it, I have an RMA to get a refund.
So what's my gripe with it?
Several things. Firstly, though this machine has "20GB" of storage, its 20GB is spanning two storage devices, it's not a single drive. The formatted capacity here is 3.74GB for the main faster SSD that the OS runs from, and 15GB for the slower secondary storage.
I purchased this version and installed XP Pro on it (since the XP version only comes with 12GB). 4GB is simply too small. After installing and updating XP, there was just no room left to install any apps I wanted, even after cleaning up the drive.
Secondly, the touch pad and buttons. The touch pad is WAY too sensitive and finicky, frankly it's just terrible. Even knowing this and trying to carefully tap click, it would way too often instead perform an extremely fast double click, and it would often repeatedly/consecutively do this. This gets extremely irritating very fast. Updating the touch pad driver had no effect for me.
As for the touch pad buttons, they are way too stiff. Perhaps they wear down after a lot of use, but I'd go insane before ever finding out.
Lastly, and the least excusable, is the battery life. For a device like this it's simply inexcusably awful. This is with the 5800mAh battery: with wireless OFF (FN + F2) and the screen dimmed down to its second most dark setting (which is really unacceptably dark for all but the very best-lit environments), this thing barely lasted over 2 hours. One more battery cycle to confirm this pathetic performance and I was ready to box it up and send it back.
I can forgive a lot of things regarding a tiny laptop, the small screen, small keyboards that are tricky to type on, etc. That is totally excusable.
But what a tiny laptop with a small screen, no optical drive, and a solid state hard drive should absolutely excel at is battery life, and this fails horribly. Less than 2.5hrs with a darkened screen and disabled wifi is just inexcusable.
If you're still really intent on a micro laptop, I still wouldn't recommend the 900, I'd highly recommend you just wait a few weeks for the Eee PC 901. It features the new highly efficient Intel Atom which uses far less energy and therefore improves battery life (hopefully Intel will develop a new efficient chipset to go along with it).
I still love the idea of an Eee PC and look forward to what Asus and other companies will have to offer over the coming year or so. If this had a minimum 8GB primary SSD, a far better touch pad and buttons, and the battery lasted 4+ hours with wifi enabled and the brightness halfway up, I'd love it.
 Asus EEE PC 20G = Perfection May 14, 2008
A. E. Golder (MD,USA)
99 out of 119 found this review helpful
I had the EEE PC 4G and once I found out the 20G 900 was coming out, back to the store it went!! If you are on the fence between this and the 4G 701 for $399, I would say the extra $150 for this one is money well spent as you get a bigger screen, which is awesome, allows you to view a web page without having to scroll left or right, 5X the storage, 20 Gigs compared to only 4 Gigs on the EEE PC 701 and twice the ram. Same form factor, and definitely is a head turner. Only caveat is Linux was just not for me, so I slapped on Windows XP very easily using the instructions provided in the user manual and the driver disk provided by ASUS.
The Eee is great and it came with the 5800mah battery May 19, 2008
Christopher Pichner (Mpls, MN USA)
69 out of 72 found this review helpful
I have to say even though I have only had the Eee 900 for a few days I love it! I plan on coming back and giving updates as I have them but out of the gates it works as advertised. One thing amazon does not say is that it comes with the bigger 5800mah battery which is great. I haven't done an actual timed battery test but we can surf for about three hours on a charge. Also I tested out video skype(which comes installed) and that works well too. For the more advanced users you can enable a full desktop mode for KDE Linux which as a more familiar windows feel. It takes some work but once you get it installed its easy to switch from the standard tabbed interface to the full desktop interface when you need more flexibility. If you are looking for a very portable laptop with good battery life and a great screen this would be a great choice.
*Update*
Having had the Eee for a while I have to admit that it is difficult to touch type on. I find myself making a large number of typing errors, but given the overall size of this laptop I didn't assume this would be like a full size keyboard. If you are planning to use this as a primary laptop just keep in mind this is a small keyboard. Go to your local retailer and see if they have one of the older models as a display and give it a try. That should give you an idea of what it is like to type on the 900.
*Update* (July 7th 2008)
The battery life seems to be about 2 hours, that is with wifi enabled and 90% of the time spent surfing the net (email, Firefox etc). We realized early on that you cant really charge up the battery with the Eee turned on so every night we shut it down and charge it over night, it is always ready to go 1st thing in the morning, but I think it takes about 4 hours to charge the battery from 10% to 100%. My wife uses it as her primary email and internet machine, it is used at least 5 days a week draining the battery almost everyday. We have yet to see any decrease in the life of the battery
The best laptop I've ever touched May 21, 2008
Igor Mendoza (Shakopee , MN Usa)
44 out of 44 found this review helpful
I just got this 900 Asus laptop and love everything about it.All the talk about the keyboard size is lame. After 30 minutes of typing I don't even notice the difference in size from a regular keyboard. Linux works great- especially after unlocking full desktop mode(which takes only a couple of minutes)It works much faster than my Dell laptop with windows on it that has twice the memory and faster processor. And like somebody mentioned above- I don't have to worry about viruses wiht linux( it's been known to have only 20 written viruses for the OS verses millions for windows)And I got almost 3 hours battery life on my first test drive, downloading music,listening to music and surfing the net at the same time.
I recommend it to anybody.
 Great Coffee Cruiser - Needs an internal Cell phone May 18, 2008
MT (Vegas)
37 out of 64 found this review helpful
Tis an amazing system, the larger screen is a delight. The Linux operating system is good and always works, great Coffee Cruiser... The native Linux operating system is fast and makes this computer less susceptible to drive by viruses now it is reported that 1 in a 1000 web pages are poisoned...
This computer is not a Desktop replacement, but it is lightweight and everything else for your mobile computing needs. This and the smaller unit are expensive and should be price for less, but presume there will be more competition for the consumer with adjusted pricing in the near future. I am guessing, but feel the falling dollar value can be blamed for 25% of the current price...
The new unit with the larger screen should have come to market at the $399 price and the older Asus EEE should have dropped to the $199 price point.
The first released Asus EEE unit was a fabulous success with Linux as its operating system, but add Microsoft XP to the unit and watch the system slow down and become almost non-usable with all the malware. This is a take with you system, and if you do not spend an hour each and every day keeping the system virus and advertisement free any windows XP system is going to be a problem... This is a wireless system, completely open to every predator in every library, public WiFi and school setting.
Only area I feel has been neglected at the current price level, where is the bluetooth & internat Cell phone that needs to be part of this $599 EEE PC 900... The size is approaching and above full laptops, and other systems are ready scheduled to arrive on market near or at the $400 price...
I love it the easy, safety and speed of the Linux operating system, and enjoy its amazing ability to locate a wireless signal and be web surfing while my on-line messenger and e-mail is ready almost in the blink of an eye...
Overall it is a very expensive small form system, maybe I stepped up to the counter a bit early to secure the best Coffee Cruiser for my after tax dollars...
The hardware Asus decided upon makes it easy to install almost any Linux operating system you enjoy using.
MT
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