Jkk, master of all Eee PCs, has put up a video review of the Eee 900A, one of the newest Atom powered Eees. Swing by his site to watch the whole video and listen to Jkk’s thoughts on the netbook.

Aving has just posted a report from the Asus World 2008 conference about the Asus N10 netbook/laptop we covered earlier. The N10 looks simply wonderful and there is no mistaking that this is a high-end piece of equipment. What is probably the best thing about this device is that it has an Nvidia GeForce 9300GS graphics card. Try finding that on another netbook! Other previously unknown specifications include a 320GB harddrive, 2GB of RAM, LED backlit 10″ screen and an Intel N270 (Atom) processor. Add this to the previously known features (HDMI, Altec Lansing speakers, fingerprint reader) and you have one powerful machine. And it looks great too..my new favorite netbook. Let’s just hope the battery life is good. More pictures over at Aving.net.

Chippy writes: Techticker reports that it will be officially announced on the 13th (Sat?) and will have a price of $1140 and a 6-cell battery good enough for 6+hours.  This is Atom breaking out of its cage and Intel and notebook manufacturers definitely won’t be happy to see it but its definately going to happen. Users are realising that they prefer good-value, small form-factor and long battery life more than anything. It really wont suprise me to see the average size on notebooks come right down with users being happy with 10-12″ models with long battery life as a result of the netbook craze. If Atom is good enough for that then Intel and traditional laptop sales will suffer.

This new model is approaching the thin line between netbooks and notebooks. I guess thats why Asus chose not to release it under the EEE brand. Or perhaps they realized people are getting confused having so many EEE models around. Whatever the reason was, this new model sure has some unique features: there is a new glossy black and silver case which looks great, a 10 inch 1024×768 1024×600 screen, Altec Lansing speakers, a fingerprint reader, 1.3 megapixel webcam, and an HDMI out. Thats a pretty impressive list of features for a device that is supposedly only going to cost 400 euro. No mention of processor speed or type, but it will probably be an Atom. Blogeee speculates that it might even be dual-core. At least thats what I understand from my limited French ;)

via Blogeee.net (click link for more pictures)

There are a lot of people that prefer the casing of the 900 over the 901 but yet most people seem to want the Atom processor. ASUS have responded with the 900A. Its the 900 casing with an Atom-based device inside. This will please the people that know where they stand with the Eee PC models but lord help the Saturday salespeople!

JKK has some thoughts on it over at Eee central. JKKMobile.com and I’ve already added it to the database so we’ll track news on this one as it goes through. It deserves a little database love anyway as it’s a sub-1KG device!

As JKK says, this could mean that the device is moving towards availability in the U.S.

I haven’t heard anything from ASUS in Germany yet but I’ve sent them a message to see if we can have a status update. Remember that the R50 is the smaller of the two tablets that ASUS will be launching and it will run on the Silverthorne processor with SSD and 3G included. I wonder if we’ll see any Eee-influenced change of branding or pricing? I doubt it.

See the specifications and previous news pages for the R70 and R50 by clicking on the images below.

R70 and R50 from ASUS.

JKK knows the Eee PC’s like the back of his hand so if you’re interested in the 901 at all, head on over to his site. He’s got one with him on holiday (!) and plans to start testing and reporting. His first words are:

Battery life is goood.. looks like easy 5 hours on my use.
Eee 901 has the best battery life compared to other netbooks

The question is, is it much better than the Eee PC 900 16G that’s going for $399 on Amazon.com?

Details on the 901 here.

There are two choices open to you when you are confronted with a slate style UMPC. You can scratch your head and say, “there don’t be no keyboard here.” Or you can ask yourself, “how well can I use this despite the absence of a keyboard?” I asked myself the latter question when first confronted with the R2. This wasn’t the review unit, the R2E, I had for two weeks recently but the original R2H that was shown as one of the very first ultra mobile PC devices nearly three years ago. Not having a keyboard seems like a big compromise for any computer because it is the second most used part of any computer, after the mouse. Not having a keyboard bars you from doing most things you would normally do with your computer. And what use is a ultra mobile PC that does not even allow you to complete you daily computer routine? If all you want from your ultra mobile PC purchase is that it allows you to do what you already do on computers in a conveniently portable package than you probably won’t be excited by the prospect of a slate style UMPC. I however want a ultra mobile PC to go beyond my normal needs and perform different tasks. I therefore was excited by the R2H. [Read on…]

AnandTech published some strip-down pics of the Asus Eee PC 901 earlier today and JKK has put them under the microscope to try and work out if there are any new features. Unfortunately it looks like the SSD drive is still split into two partitions making XP a pain to manage but on the other hand, there’s a few really nice surprises in there. Pop over to JKKMobile for the raw, naked details.