So … did you install this touch screen ? … if so , did it go ok ?
I got this last time and love it. I’m so very glad I upgraded the hardware because it’s mush faster. To save everyone else time here are some links:
UNetbootin to boot from a thumb drive
ASUS Comparison Chart to other Eee PCs
Wikipedia Page on Eee PCs
ASUS Car Adapter $49.99 but I have seen knock offs for $10 on ebay
ASUS USB-BT21 USB 2.0 Mini Bluetooth Dongle $19.99
Distros:[list]Nearly all are on the eeeuser wiki. Just keep scrolling
[]CrunchEee
[]Moblin -still in Beta
[]Jolicloud -private Alpha but invitation possible?
[] Google Chrome (the OS) was announced and scheduled to be out by the end of this year
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Hardware upgrades:
Solid State Drive (Mini PCIe SATA)[list][]Super Talent 16GB $53
[]Super Talent 32GB $89
[*]Super Talent 64GB $149[/list]
Memory 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM (which can only be up to 2GB)
[list][*]Neweggs entire line up $25-$35
The speed doesn’t matter because they are downgraded to DDR2-400 on this model anyways but 533 and 667 are supported. For CAS latency I went with the Kingston HyperX[/list]
how much more rugged is the ssd than a hd?
has anyone tried this?
10400mAh Replacement Lithium Battery Pack for Asus Eee 7/8/9-Series Laptops (A22-P701H Compatible)
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15973
how long will the ssd last using a non journaling file system like ext2?
do people not post price stamps anymore or do they get deleted by moderators?
it makes it hard to compare to previously offered EEE’s here…
Asus Eee PC 900 Netbook with 1.6GHz Atom Processor
$169.99+ $5 shipping
i wanted to compare this one to the 20 gig version offered here before. was it like $180 or something?
I bought one of these as my first Woot and at first I was a bit indifferent to it. It was a screaming deal, but I wasn’t a fan of the OS it came with and the keyboard was a bit small. It would also crash every time I upgraded. I called the company and they told me my hard drive was too small so I could never upgrade. I expressed some scepticism to the woman on the phone, but then saw it only had about 100 megs free from the factory. I quickly got used to returning the computer to factory settings.
After two days I was able to use the keyboard almost as well as a full. Currently I’m not to the point where I can transcribe an entire class, but I’m getting there.
I bike two miles to school and having this in my pack is a huge weight and space saver, especially when my pack is usually about 40-50 lbs.
Oh right, so I wasn’t in love with this at first. I got used to the keyboard but the OS never endeared itself to me, partially because it was just awkward to use, and also because it insulted me to not be able to upgrade the damn thing. So I just installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix. World of difference, this computer is now amazing. Best Ubuntu I’ve ever used, more features then from the factory, and it constantly has 700-800 megs free, so I can upgrade and even save things when I forget my SD card.
You will need an SD card if you want to save anything. I use a 2 gb SD, but all I use this for is class.
man i really wish i had the money for this netbook. I’m on dialysis 3 times a week bored out of my mind. i’ve been trying to find a netbook deal like this for sometime, the one time the good woot deal happens i don’t have the cash. I feel like dialyis is going to be super boring and tiring for ever. Oh well thanks for reading my rant.
Also setup this same netbook for a friend who’s in the hospital, it’s a great netbook for web browsing and basic tasks. Even good for some OS tinkering and a little hardware tinkering.
This will work great if you switch out the OS – I used EEEbuntu – and disable the terrible Dansguardian software that comes pre-installed, and that prohibits access to sites such as dealnews.com because of alleged “Japanese pornography.” The original OS also has a problem connecting with password-protected wireless networks. So prepare to invest a few hours tuning this baby up and you’ll have a nice system. If you troll through the Aug 17 Woot comment thread (the last time they sold this baby) you’ll find some helpful posts on how to do all of this.
My son has been wanting a laptop but maybe this is a cheaper option? He wants one for:
Facebook
E-mail
Watching Youtube fart videos 
Itunes for his Ipod/Itouch(maybe he can store his songs on a flash drive???)
Would this netbook work for his above applications?
Well, I went for it. My first foray into anything other than Widows. What is the difference between Easy Peasy and eeebuntu NBR? Is one “better” than the other? Or is there another good choice for this netbook?
it gets hot around the keyboard not on bottom becouse it uses keyboard as heatsink
a whole lot more rugged your eee will break before you can break the ssd were the hdd is sensitive when it is reading or writing
it is defiantly not glued to the screen it is on the bottom under an easy access panel were you can remove two screws and and replace it with bigger mini pci-e ssd
not necessarily gunna increase speed use flashpoint to help with speed because most pci-e ssds are mlc and there are drivers on asus web cite
On a whim I downloaded eeebuntu onto a USB stick following the instructions on www.eeebuntu.org. You can boot eeebuntu from the stick without installing on the ssd! Once I realized the superiority, I spent the 30 mins loading it natively, and haven’t regretted it.
As others say, the 4GB drive sux. But upgrading the HW ($50 for SSD, $30 for 2GB ram) starts putting you in striking range of low end HP (and other) netbooks, which are much better built.
Yes. I have one that I bought from Woot that I upgraded both the RAM (to 3Gb) and the SSD (to 32 Gb) and it screams. You can get those upgrades for less than $100 if you shop around.
Mine now runs Windows 7. Boots in less than a minute, and works great as an e-mail and surfing machine.
The pre-installed OS on these is pretty poor. It’s set up to protect you from corrupting it by having the OS on one partition and having any changes to that OS written to a different disk partition. That means that you can always wipe out your changes and recover, but it also means that if you try to install the patches, the disk runs out of space. Not good.
Recommend wiping the SSD and installing the Ubuntu netbook remix. A bit more RAM wouldn’t hurt, either.
Yes, there are drivers for Windows XP (eee actually sells these with XP). Windows 7 works well also.
If you’re pricing SSD upgrades, make sure you’re looking at Mini PCI-E drives. That’s what this model uses. I installed a Super Talent FPM32GRSE in mine.
For those with questions on SSD performance and reliability, there’s a really good series of articles at AnandTech that goes into this in amazing detail.
I wanted to order 3 laptop computers. but I ordered just one by mistake
What should I do?