Soon to have a Eee PC 900

After several almost and a lot of thinking I decided to buy the Acer Aspire One, the blue one, 150x model. Suddently no one has it and I have to wait for at least 3 weeks, 3 weeks + that I don't have. So I decided to get the cheapest alternative. A shop had a last Asus Eee PC 900, the 4+12GB version, with Windows XP and shop installed 2GB of RAM.
It isn't my first choise, due to the smaller size of storage space and that the Aspire looks much better to me, but a man has to do what a man has to do.
It will be in my hands some time next week, perhaps Thursday.
Good thing about it, cheaper than the Aspire and ready to be delivered. Some people say the Celeron is actualy a more powerful CPU than the Atom inside the Aspire, don't know, but I hope if it isn't, it isn't too much slower.
The GPU inside the 900 is a previous model than the Aspire, as far as I know. My guess is it can't handle HD video either (I have some external HDDs).
The keyboard is smaller and more hard to type, at least that's what people say since I have never used it. I tried the Aspire for a min and I found its keyboard good enough.
I don't even know how good the screen of the 900 is, but at least it is the same size and resolution as the Aspire.

I already bought a 8GB USB drive and an external USB (and USB powered) slim DVD Recorder by LG. Good looking drive.

I know that I may sound negative against the 900, but I am not, just trying to be objective about it. From what I read you better disable the pagefile in it or else you will greatly reduce the life of the storage drives and that they are slower in writing data which puts more reduced performance. I just hope it won't suck.

I plan on using it for regular Openoffice work, music, videos and games. Music-mp3s mostly, videos all sort of encoded formats and games...games from much older games that should work on the 900, to perhaps a bit newer that might work on it. Resolution limits shouldn't be a problem since after a while I will plug it in my 24" LG monitor, but not sure about the speed of it and at least some modern strategy games. For example Europa Universalis Rome, GalCiv 2, winSPMBT. And perhaps an Atari ST emulator like STEAM. (not the Valve's product).

I will post a review here when I get it.


BTW, one question for anyone that might know, does the Windows version come with a recovery disc of Windows? A partition that I can copy to a DVD, or something else? Or something worse?

 

I would of waited or gotten an MSI Wind U100. It has a much better keyboard and processor. But hey, this is a netbook. The whole idea is to get the cheapest available machine. The Asus is great too, congrats and enjoy!

 

Here you can get it at 20 percent more than the 900 and in pink. If you want another colour the price goes up to 50 percent more than the 900. Plus it is a 10" one and that is too large for my taste.
But mainly the price.
Thank you for your comment.

 

My 901 came with a disc that had the drivers and two ghost files, one for the 4GB ssd, and one for the 8GB. Each ghost file restores either ssd to factory settings.

 

That's great news, I hope mine has them too. Thank you.

 

I've bought myself the Ace Aspire One - the blue one a few weeks ago, and I had the chance to compare all of the three netbooks: Acer Aspire One, MSI Wind U100 and Asus EEE 901. After working on them for a while I decided that all three of them are pretty close on performance, but the Acer Aspire One is made firmly and looks the best of them all

 

I got the 901 and love it. The only drawback is the ssd, it's really slow. So I ordered a 5400 rpm 1.8" hard drive - should be perfect after I get it.

 

Umm... I wonder if ssd is slower than hhd?

 

Depends on the SSD, nearly always SSD reads faster than HDD but sometimes they have not so good write speeds. However, I guess the latest ones are getting better. The technology is more or less in its infancy, so it will take a while until they get optimum performance out of the SSDs.

 

The SSD in the EEE has horrible write speeds and when it does write the whole system freezes just to let the SSD do its' work.