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ASUS Eee PC 901 8.9-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB Solid State Drive, 20 GB Eee Storage, Linux, 6 Cell Battery) Pearl White
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Sharekeyboard throws monkey wrench into day-to-day use
(2 out of 5) by G. Wernette on Nov 22, 2009Since I took Typing class in school, I'm unable to be productive on the 901. It's back-assward key arrangement doubles the time it takes to create documents, slows down chat applications, and wipes out entire paragraphs with one slip of the finger. All because Asus decided it would be a good idea to swap the Shift and Page Up keys, my typing education works against me.
Asus won't produce a replacement board with the letters correctly arranged. Instead, they fixed that issue on later netbooks, but I don't feel I should have to purchase another computer for the sake of bad design. I wish I could swap this 901 for one of the 1001s that have a correct keyboard.
Asus won't produce a replacement board with the letters correctly arranged. Instead, they fixed that issue on later netbooks, but I don't feel I should have to purchase another computer for the sake of bad design. I wish I could swap this 901 for one of the 1001s that have a correct keyboard.
Eee PC
(5 out of 5) by Steven Barnhart on Aug 29, 2009Do yourself a favor and buy a real laptop. The key board is to small the Lenix OS is so poor it will make the simplest tasks very aggravating. You will be on the phone to technical support in the Philippines day after day. To install a simple dictionary function to Open Office on this system will take 17 steps! Buy it and you will regret it. The one good thing is the battery does last 6 hours +-.
Your PC away from home
(4 out of 5) by Daniel Nastase on Jul 9, 2009 (New York, NY)I am very satisfied with this netbook. For the money I paid and for its hardware characteristics it is a very good tool.
I give it only 4 stars because of the Xandros OS:
- the partition setup choice for the union file system is not the best: you either have to get rid of it or tweak it. Otherwise you can't install any of the upgrades
- the repositories are old and incomplete
I give it only 4 stars because of the Xandros OS:
- the partition setup choice for the union file system is not the best: you either have to get rid of it or tweak it. Otherwise you can't install any of the upgrades
- the repositories are old and incomplete
Terrible element of keyboard design
(2 out of 5) by Irl D. Cramer on Jul 7, 2009 (California)Any ASUS machine with this keyboard design poses a really bad problem. I have no comment on other elements of this machine, but the keyboard design, to me, defeated the machine. You'll notice that the up arrow key is just below the enter key. On most keyboards, the shift key is below the enter key so if you miss, nothing bad happens. On this machine, it was fairly often the case that when I tried for enter, I got the up arrow and it threw me into a different part of the document. It was unbearable. Avoid this machine if you value your sanity.
Good little computer for travel
(5 out of 5) by S. Sentell on Jun 28, 2009 (USA)We just took this computer on a trip (which is the main reason we bought it). It was a good size to toss in the backpack. Like that it was a solid state drive that will hopefully handle rougher treatment. Also like that it is running Linux and may have less to worry about logging on to all those public networks. It was a good value too!