ASUS Eee PC 901 8.9-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB Solid State Drive, 20 GB Eee Storage, Linux, 6 Cell Battery) Fine Ebony

ASUS Eee PC 901 8.9-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB Solid State Drive, 20 GB Eee Storage, Linux, 6 Cell Battery) Fine Ebony Features

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It has held up great despite some hard transportation and a few hot days forgotten on the floorboard of the car. It is plenty powerful, light, great battery life (4.5-6 Hr, depending on task), and a superb screen. The laptop arrived in good condition and fast (thanks Amazon) and came with proper documentation, a storage sleeve, and restore disks (No cd drive to put them in though. It is an extremely poor example of such a fine software system.

The good:This laptop is awesome. I ordered this laptop a year ago. Its small, easy to carry, and goes through airport security quicker than I can get through the metal detector.The bad:The included version of Linux is beyond useless, buggy, and incomplete. The sleek black finish, although pretty, smudges very easy, but they do give you an "eyeglass cleaning cloth" that works great.The summary:Minus one star for the crappy OS. I ordered the 2GB memory upgrade and some extra SD storage, and have all my music, games, videos, SNES/NES emulator games, and documents on varying drives and devices.

it fails to update properly with security updates, which tend to break things instead of fix them. Replace the OS with Ubuntu OS (google for instructions on how to do it with a flash drive, its easy as pie), and I recommend a good case. Bootable flash drive would have been better). It was quickly replaced by the Ubuntu Linux OS, which fully supports the EEE, and will install with a flash drive, no cd required. All work great.

No stuttering on video or audio, no major glitches, and its quiet. The speakers are tinny and quiet on most high-end audio/video tasks, and I recommend headphones. I frequently lend this laptop to people for short times, getting nothing but praise for it.Recommended accessories: CaseCrown Netbook Double Memory Foam Pouch Case with Front PocketOCZ 2GB PC2-5400 667MHz DDR2 Value SoDIMM Module (OCZ2MV6672G)Transcend 16 GB Class 6 SDHC Flash Memory Card TS16GSDHC6E [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging]

Thus you are limited. The eeepc is an average netbook computer. The screen, keyboard, and memory are small. For some dumb reason Asus decided to divide the 20 GB solid state drive into two drives, one being faster than the other. With the 6 cell battery and the solid state hard drive it does go almost all day on a charge.

Since I took Typing class in school, I'm unable to be productive on the 901. Asus won't produce a replacement board with the letters correctly arranged. It's back-assward key arrangement doubles the time it takes to create documents, slows down chat applications, and wipes out entire paragraphs with one slip of the finger. All because Asus decided it would be a good idea to swap the Shift and Page Up keys, my typing education works against me. Instead, they fixed that issue on later netbooks, but I don't feel I should have to purchase another computer for the sake of bad design. I wish I could swap this 901 for one of the 1001s that have a correct keyboard.

Do yourself a favor and buy a real laptop. To install a simple dictionary function to Open Office on this system will take 17 steps. The key board is to small the Lenix OS is so poor it will make the simplest tasks very aggravating. You will be on the phone to technical support in the Philippines day after day. Buy it and you will regret it. The one good thing is the battery does last 6 hours +-.

I am very satisfied with this netbook. For the money I paid and for its hardware characteristics it is a very good tool.I give it only 4 stars because of the Xandros OS: - the partition setup choice for the union file system is not the best: you either have to get rid of it or tweak it. Otherwise you can't install any of the upgrades- the repositories are old and incomplete