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Author Topic: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900  (Read 4786 times)

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New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« on: November 26, 2008, 01:44:06 PM »
I recently purchased this from newegg.com.

My first impressions of the laptop are pretty good so far, though it's only been two days.

It has a very small foot print, about half the size of a traditional laptop, so it's ultra portable and makes it a great laptop to travel with without having to pay upwards of a thousand dollars for it. The only down side to such a small laptop is the small keyboard, but it's something that I can get used to.

So far, so good. As of right now, I think it was worth the $350 that I spent on it.
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2008, 02:29:35 PM »
I've been wanting one of those (but one of the Linux ones, not the XP OEMs) since I first heard about them last year.

I have a really great laptop already (a Dell XPS M1330 that's less than a year old), so I have no practical need for an eeePC, but that doesn't matter.

Want.
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2008, 08:16:56 PM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on November 26, 2008, 02:29:35 PM
I've been wanting one of those (but one of the Linux ones, not the XP OEMs) since I first heard about them last year.

I have a really great laptop already (a Dell XPS M1330 that's less than a year old), so I have no practical need for an eeePC, but that doesn't matter.

Want.

Speaking of Linux-based laptops... I remember seeing a thread around here that mentioned something about a laptop that ran a flavor of Linux that boasted that it could boot up in under 10 seconds. Do you remember what flavor of Linux that was?
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2008, 10:05:44 PM »
Amazon was teasing with the $400 eeePC for under $200.  I doubt it will happen, but they did tease it via emale.
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2008, 01:43:40 PM »
Quote from: Chris on November 26, 2008, 08:16:56 PM
Speaking of Linux-based laptops... I remember seeing a thread around here that mentioned something about a laptop that ran a flavor of Linux that boasted that it could boot up in under 10 seconds. Do you remember what flavor of Linux that was?

Nope, I don't recall that.

I'm running a bastardized Slackware 12-ish installation on my Dell XPS laptop that boots up in under a minute, but that's about as fast as I've ever seen for a linux distro booting on a laptop.
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2008, 01:52:39 PM »
There are some that boot a simple linux flavor from the ROM for quick media access, simple web browsing, stuff like that.  Maybe that's what you're thinking of.  I think they were Asus systems too.
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2008, 02:36:00 PM »
Ah, right, I've heard of those.

Biz, don't you have a laptop that does that?
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2008, 11:14:25 PM »
My desktop does.  yes.
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2009, 01:56:38 AM »
Just as a follow up on this topic, Asus has leaked some information on a new and improved netbook that they hopefully plan on releasing  soon:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/08/asus_eee_t91/
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2009, 10:21:54 AM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on December 01, 2008, 02:36:00 PM
Ah, right, I've heard of those.

Biz, don't you have a laptop that does that?

My Toshiba lappy has a media player app that uses a modified Linux install to play DVDs, etc without having to boot Doze.
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2009, 10:22:22 PM »
For some reason lately I've been getting "wow, it's so small" because of this thing. :roll:
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2009, 02:36:52 PM »
Quote from: Chris on February 05, 2009, 10:22:22 PM
For some reason lately I've been getting "wow, it's so small" because of this thing. :roll:

Not usually what a guy wants to hear.  :w:
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Re: New Laptop: Asus eee PC 900
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2009, 02:42:54 PM »
Quote from: Chris on February 05, 2009, 10:22:22 PM
For some reason lately I've been getting "wow, it's so small" because of this thing. :roll:

You're not taking steroids, are you?
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