Asus eee 900

[Noger]

cyberface said:

And lastly, there are rumours that the units shipped to reviewers had 5800 mAh batteries, but the ones being sold to customers have 4400 mAh batteries. This would be somewhat irritating (1.5 hour battery life with the big new screen? no thanks) so we will see....

Might be something to do with the current wordwide laptop battery crisis (and people worry about a bit of global warming eh ) ?

[mft]

LukeBird said:

I'll be interested to hear how you get on with the new one, looks like it could be the ideal size between a 'proper' laptop and the original eee

Have you tried the keyboard on the Eee? Apparently, the 900's is the same as the 701's, and I found it was definitely a weak spot, having played with a 701 quite a few times.


The HP 2133 is interesting me, as it nearly has a full size keyboard - just a few % off:

[cyberface]

Noger said:

cyberface said:

And lastly, there are rumours that the units shipped to reviewers had 5800 mAh batteries, but the ones being sold to customers have 4400 mAh batteries. This would be somewhat irritating (1.5 hour battery life with the big new screen? no thanks) so we will see....

Might be something to do with the current wordwide laptop battery crisis (and people worry about a bit of global warming eh ) ?

fk global warming - the pollution caused by battery production and disposal outweighs any potential 'global warming' (to which I'm scientifically sceptical, and I'm not uneducated) effects...

What I *can* confirm is that my Eee 701, ready for its new owner tomorrow, has a 5200 mAh battery. My brand new 900, sitting here charging up, has a weedy 4400 mAh battery. So I'm expecting 1.5 hours battery life, which is utterly inadequate for a travel computer. The battery cases are identical in size and shape, so an old 701 battery will power a 900, etc. but I'd rather wait for the 5800 mAh battery than buy another 5200 mAh 701 battery. Regardless, a bit of a disappointment.

Looks like I'll be chasing the supplier for the rumoured free battery upgrade, or buying a spare battery

The 900 looks gorgeous though - my 701 is black and businesslike, the 900 (only one I could source) is white - but it's a pearlescent white that puts Apple's white Macbooks to shame. It does *not* look like a £289 computer, by any stretch of the imagination...

As to other aspects - same keyboard (identical) but bigger screen, different speakers, bigger trackpad and the rest's the same. Haven't played with the 900 yet because I've been sick as a dog all day, and City Link only got it to me late afternoon.

Having seen the pearlescence of the case though, and the size of the screen and trackpad (which allegedly does multitouch, using the Synaptics driver)... I'm probably going to Hackintosh it as soon as possible. The vertical resolution will be a problem for OS X setup just like it was on the 701. But external monitor sorts that, then you can hack the UI after it's built. It will be a *very* interesting Apple experience with 1024 horizontal and the Dock on the left... the 701 was just too small for OS X, but great with Xubuntu... the 900 *may* just be acceptable with OS X. If not, back to eeeXubuntu, which rocks.

[LukeBird]

A Hackintosh....

Jobs'll be after you cyberface!

Glad you have your new toy, be interested to see how it goes

[sgrimshaw]

Exigeowner said:

Then the hard bit for me how do I get the DVD onto a memory card ?

Try here http://www.dvdtox.com

1. 1 DVD Ripper allows you to select an output profile and it does the rest.

[ceebmoj]

Hi there,

do any real shops have these yet so I can go and have a look and play with one as I would really like to have a go at tipping and using the office app before committing to one.

Blake

[mcflurry]

ceebmoj said:

Hi there,

do any real shops have these yet so I can go and have a look and play with one as I would really like to have a go at tipping and using the office app before committing to one.

Blake

On Saturday my local Toysrus had the 701 in store for £219, and the 900 for an extra £100

I was undecided as to which model, until an ex-hackintoshed one became available

[ceebmoj]

did thay have both the linux and xp ones avaloble or just xp?

[mcflurry]

ceebmoj said:

did thay have both the linux and xp ones avaloble or just xp?

Linux ones

[ceebmoj]

went in to my local toys r us to day and no joy no 900s I will have a ring round and see if I can find one and have aplay.

blake

[Noger]

After looking closely at the 2133 I discounted it because of the uncertaintly over the CPU, don't want to buy one with a C7-M only to find it will get refreshed with the Atom or Issiah in a few months.

Now very seriously looking at the new eee 901 - with bluetooth and shiny new Atom.

Only question is XP or Linux ? I don't think the Vista is going to be great on the Atom tbh.

What I really want is the Fujitsu P1620. But sodding Fujitsu are just so rubbish about supplying the things (available on their website, but no sign of it in the online shop). They announced it was available in the EU in Feb, the gits.

But it did get me thinking, the Fuji will be around £1500 - do I REALLY like touch screens enough to pay an extra grand over something with the same features and of the same size.

[gopher]

Quick Question if you don't mind.

my Mrs has bought a 900 and is very pleased with it however she's trying to get her HP all-in-one working with it. She's downloaded the drivers and started the install which says it thinks her distro is debian 4 which I think is okay as Xandros appears to be Debian based. However it then asks "what Version" and gives lots of options including 3 named "etch".

The "unknown" option does not work as there is a large number of missing dependencies so does anyone know what version of debian is xandros based on? Any help much appreciated.

Cheers

Paul