Comments on: ASUS Stops Taking Orders For Eee PC 900

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:12:37 +0000

I bought a eee 900 for 369 euros. A white one, because the vendor didn’t have black. It was a impulse buy, probably caused by the fact I was very happy 11 years ago with the Toshiba Libretto. When it dawned that I had the 4400 versus 5800 battery, I was disappointed by Asus. Always built systems with their hardware – thick pcb boards – and advised other people to do the same.
Now I have a light weight notebook with a lousy battery, hence paperweight. Working in the IT sector for the government I will advise people to stay away from Asus and Gigabyte (owned by Asus). I’m in Europe and Asus did not even offer a replacement battery…
I think this was a fatal move made by Asus Inc and a waste of my money.

By: Richard K

Richard K — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:27:17 +0000

In North America the 900 comes with a $100 rebate from ASUS during the month of July as they try to clear out the stock to make way for the 901.

I already have a 900 with XP at home and the only major complaint is the small keyboard. My daughter really wants to be able to type notes during class.

Trying to decide whether to get my two kids (new university students starting in the fall) a 900 at the more attractive $550 with $100 rebate price or wait until the fall and get them each a Wind (which has a larger keyboard, battery and Atom processor).

I do like the reliability aspects of a SDD over a hard drive. But the Wind runs cooler than the 900 (which gets a little warm). Tough choices.

By: Si

Si — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:45:13 +0000

i see toysrus are knockin out the 900 in white, black, xp and linux flavours for £269….

plus have stock

By: kamukamo

kamukamo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:57:55 +0000

I bought the 900 first week of June 08 and was as happy as a clam , til I brought it along at the airport. Anticipating a long flight I made sure I had it full charged – and lo and behold, the sucker died in less than hours. I thought this was just its way of gettin into gear, perhaps 2nd and 3rd charge would get its juice running… but then ..kaput! 2 freaking hours for an ultraportable – plug it in one of my buddy with a 701 advised. Its a freakin portable thats why i bought it in the first place. There was a BIOS upgrade that says its supposed to give the 900 more battery life, I updated but have yet to find out if there was any significant changes?? anybody got those 3rd party monstrous humped 10800mah batteries? how long do those really last? I thought SSD’s main point is its solid state – therefore less power needed?

By: knobcottage

knobcottage — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:22:53 +0000

I run the linux 900. I am not entirely happy with it. The novelty has work off and the reality set in. Dual boots Xandros and win XP but the win XP on the second drive is sooooo slow. Shame. Thought I could do more wiwth it. Xandros is real fast and if the repos stay there and the community survives then it’ll be okay.
Glider_Guider I do have copies of the kmserver and kicker. There’s loads of the m out there!

By: Glider_Guider

Glider_Guider — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:16:30 +0000

I love my ASUS Eee PC 900 (Linux) but it appears that ASUS has removed ksmserver and kicker from their download site so I can’t enable the “advanced” mode. Has anyone else run into this?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:23:31 +0000

My eee PC 900 came with a bad spacebar… I had to remove the keyboard and squeeze the spacebar till it popped into place…. Also the SDHC card reader has horrible problems, unless you run eeeCTL and set the voltage to HIGH…. They call it an SDHC card reader, which is a STANDARD, however they dont display the SDHC logo, which means they aren’t compliant…. hence 99% of the SDHC cards out there don’t work…..
It works ok with eeeCTL set to high voltage, but the battery life suffers and I’ve still had at least one write error with it set that way….
Now that i’ve got it setup, put some scotch double stick tape under the keyboard to make it more solid (it used to make a loose sound as the metal on the back of the keyboard slapped against the shielding over the motherboard) fixed the spacebar, and run eeectl, it’s a pretty cool laptop. I also got the PDPair case and it’s sweet. I also have the HP 2133 which has a better keyboard and better speakers, and the Fuji u810 which is soooo small…. but I like the PC 900 the best out of the 3…..

By: anne

anne — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:43:12 +0000

anyone else’s eee 900 get really hot, and is the fan louder than the 701?

By: turretgun

turretgun — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:47:43 +0000

The new eee pc 901 logo is very ugly, looks so cheap, i’ll rather get 900 not 901! they should fire designer inchief if they have one!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:17:30 +0000

june 3rd for taiwan market