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ASUS Eee PC 901 8.9-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 12 GB Solid State Drive, 20 GB Eee Storage, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Pearl White
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I stream my music from home so when I am in wifi I get all my music.
(5 out of 5) by Thefunk on Jul 21, 2008 (Chicago Illinois)I bought this the other day and have had the whole weekend to mess around with it. Here is what you have to know:
The 12 gigabytes of SSD are actually a fast 4 gigabyte SSD and a slower 8 gigabyte SSD. This is important because if you are going to put windows Vista on it you should reconsider your options. The keyboard is tiny! I find typing with three fingers on each hand is easiest. Don't expect 60 words per minute unless you have serious skills. It indeed does come with MS Works and another free office suite.. I removed all the bloatware and put firefox on. This baby cranks when you jack it up to high performance mode (1.8 GHz overclock).
Battery life is awesome even with an upgrade to 2 gigs of ram.
The 12 gigabytes of SSD are actually a fast 4 gigabyte SSD and a slower 8 gigabyte SSD. This is important because if you are going to put windows Vista on it you should reconsider your options. The keyboard is tiny! I find typing with three fingers on each hand is easiest. Don't expect 60 words per minute unless you have serious skills. It indeed does come with MS Works and another free office suite.. I removed all the bloatware and put firefox on. This baby cranks when you jack it up to high performance mode (1.8 GHz overclock).
Battery life is awesome even with an upgrade to 2 gigs of ram.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Very Small - Just Right for Mobility
(5 out of 5) by Ross C. Okelly on Jul 21, 2008 (USA)Pros: Small, great Battery life, easy to use, plays SD video great(AVI, DIVX) screen looks great ... Got it last Friday and had it all going within an hour and painlessly patched OS and BIOS updates in 3 hours
Cons : keyboard is cramped, no PCMCIA = No real problem
Thoughts: got this for the train and for travel, it meets the requirements very well - a little smaller than I expected (a good thing) - sits very neatly on my lap, overall very very happy (ps am getting about 6 - 6 1/2 of battery time on this puppy (Nice)
Cons : keyboard is cramped, no PCMCIA = No real problem
Thoughts: got this for the train and for travel, it meets the requirements very well - a little smaller than I expected (a good thing) - sits very neatly on my lap, overall very very happy (ps am getting about 6 - 6 1/2 of battery time on this puppy (Nice)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Perfect (or close enough).
(5 out of 5) by FatherOf4 on Sep 18, 2008We just got our ASUS 901 XP. I won't repeat much of what everybody else has said. It's a small PC that's slow and cute and well-built. If that's what you want, then it's perfect!
Two things to note. You *will* have to deal with the small C-drive. Minimally this means:
-- Change the TMP and TEMP environment variables to point to a directory on the D-drive
-- Change Internet Explorer to use the D-drive for its temporary files.
-- Change your email program to store email on the D-drive (unless you just use webmail).
-- Download any tool that lets you analyze disk space on a drive and shows you where it's used up. One easy free one is Treesize Free at [...]. You *will* need this.
Second, there's been some confusion about what resolution is supported by the external VGA port. We have a Dell 24" monitor. I plugged it in, and the ASUS EEE 901 immediately, automatically started running it at 1920x1200. And it looks beautiful. So, external resolution is not a problem.
Two things to note. You *will* have to deal with the small C-drive. Minimally this means:
-- Change the TMP and TEMP environment variables to point to a directory on the D-drive
-- Change Internet Explorer to use the D-drive for its temporary files.
-- Change your email program to store email on the D-drive (unless you just use webmail).
-- Download any tool that lets you analyze disk space on a drive and shows you where it's used up. One easy free one is Treesize Free at [...]. You *will* need this.
Second, there's been some confusion about what resolution is supported by the external VGA port. We have a Dell 24" monitor. I plugged it in, and the ASUS EEE 901 immediately, automatically started running it at 1920x1200. And it looks beautiful. So, external resolution is not a problem.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Sad To Return
(3 out of 5) by Claude A. Dill III on Aug 9, 2008 (Concord NC)Received the Eee 901 last week and was estatic till I learned that you could not use a Verizon USB card/modem for internet connection. I am not a pro here, but how did I miss this info before buying????
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
The Best Notebook I've Ever Had
(5 out of 5) by Arik R. Johnson on Aug 8, 2008 (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA)I've had my Eee PC 901 12G for about two weeks now and it's the best notebook PC I've ever had. I decided two years ago that the next notebook I bought would have an SSD, be cheap and be very small, so this was really the only option.
My only quip is that ASUS put the WinXP OS on the 4GB C: drive with too many other things and that leaves too little room for updates and the like that the OS wants to install there. I made the initial mistake of putting Outlook 2003, Office 2000 and Firefox 3 on C: and finally scrapped them, uninstalled and reinstalled to D: where there was almost 8 GB of unused space (thus the 12GB total).
Since they are the three primary apps I'm using the system is rock solid and I can't comment on its use for games and so on. I don't miss the DVD drive as I can install software from a share on my desktop and the light weight and long battery life mean it's become just as primary a PC as my desktop was.
I think, if the battery lasts or a replacement is cheap enough, I'll be using this little box for years on the road and elsewhere. It's inexpensive enough that, even if I'm not, I'll have felt as though I got my value out of it.
My only quip is that ASUS put the WinXP OS on the 4GB C: drive with too many other things and that leaves too little room for updates and the like that the OS wants to install there. I made the initial mistake of putting Outlook 2003, Office 2000 and Firefox 3 on C: and finally scrapped them, uninstalled and reinstalled to D: where there was almost 8 GB of unused space (thus the 12GB total).
Since they are the three primary apps I'm using the system is rock solid and I can't comment on its use for games and so on. I don't miss the DVD drive as I can install software from a share on my desktop and the light weight and long battery life mean it's become just as primary a PC as my desktop was.
I think, if the battery lasts or a replacement is cheap enough, I'll be using this little box for years on the road and elsewhere. It's inexpensive enough that, even if I'm not, I'll have felt as though I got my value out of it.