Probably the internet’s most popular deal-a-day website Woot.com seems to be quite found of the Asus Eee 900 [Portal page]. They have offered it several times in past and today you can find it on not just one, but two of their sites.
On Woot.com today you’ll find the Asus Eee 900 featuring the 900 MHz Celeron CPU, 512MB of RAM, 8.9 inch 1024×600 resolution screen, 4GB of SSD storage and Asus’ custom Xandros Linux for Eee PCs.
On Sellout.Woot.com you’ll find a slightly better version of the Eee 900 which has identical specs except it runs Windows XP, includes a webcam, and has double the SSD storage (8GB). Uh-oh looks like this one is already sold out!
Both units are refurbished but can be had for the very reasonable price of $150 and $180 respectively. If you are interested, buy quick! Once they sell out or the day is over, they are gone! (note: Sorry international friends, Woot and Sellout.Woot only ship in the US)
Welcome to this week’s netbook roundup. In this space every Monday I’ll highlight netbook news items that might not need their own individual posts but may still be interesting.
Meet Asus Eee PC 1002H — Jkk shows us the new Eee 1002H which has a slightly faster CPU than the 1002HA, (1.6GHz vs. 1.66) which probably won’t display any noticeable increase in performance. They also put a net chiclet style keyboard on the 1002H. Anything to release a new SKU, right?
Touching Windows 7 — Another video pointed out by the media master, jkk. This one shows how multi-touch support is coming along in Windows 7. It is looking a lot more impressive than what we’ve seen from Vista. Hopefully some of the upcoming capacitive touchscreen netbooks will be able to power these kinds of smooth interactions.
Samsung Netbook Offers Full-sized Keyboard — It looks like in addition to the N110 and N310, Samsung will also be coming out with the N120 which will provide a full sized laptop keyboard while retaining the standard 10.1 inch screen size. This seems counter-intuitive to the very well received keyboard on the Samsung NC10, and may be another blur to consumers who already might have trouble differentiating the difference between the N110 and N310.
It’s the polar opposite of what you usually see on the portal. A mobile PC built around a huge keyboard with a tiny screen tacked on to the side. Obviously this is not quite your mobile productivity box (unless you want a kneck injury) but it’s an interesting option for the home. The video below was shot a few weeks ago at CeBIT in Hannover. After reviewing it, i’m quite sure that the RF ports you see will be for wireless HDMI antennas.
The big question now is what to call this category of devices. Sofasurfer?
Welcome to this week’s netbook roundup. In this space every Monday I’ll highlight netbook news items that might not need their own individual posts but may still be interesting.
Rumor: Verizon and HP Readying Subsidized Netbooks Cheap netbooks due to subsidizes from cell phone carriers are fairly common outside the US, but it seems like HP might be teaming up with Verizon to offer a discount on a netbook if the consumer wants to start a Verizon contract. If this comes to fruition, we’ll probably see a USB WWAN card offered with the netbook, but I think most of us are hoping for a more elegant internal solution.
Just a few weeks ago, Woot featured the Asus Eee 701 netbook on their Yahoo branded site, shopping.woot.com. Today they are back with more netbooks. The Asus Eee 900 is available from shopping.woot.com today for just $179, available in black or white.
Head over to shopping.woot.com soon if you want to buy one, this deal will only be available through the end of the day or until they sell out!
I thought their description of the product was funny, here is an excerpt:
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Welcome to this week’s netbook roundup. In this space every Monday I’ll highlight netbook news items that might not need their own individual posts but may still be interesting.
9 Cell Acer Aspire One battery good for nearly 9 hours If you are looking for an ugly, but effective super-battery, one has become available for the Acer Aspire One. These are third party batteries, but could give you one hour of run-time per cell (that’s 9 hours, for the math challenged).
Eee PC 701 with a multitouch display Video A short video from eee-pc.de that shows an Asus Eee 701 with a capacitive multi-touch capable screen. Windows 7 is on the 701 in the video providing the software for the multi-touch demo.
MSI Netbook Lasts 1.3 Days with Single Charge (On Saturn) Kevin C. Tofel of JkOnTheRun jokes about the endurance of the MSI Wind U115 [Portal page], but it really does last quite long. Apparently eee-pc.de has tested the U115 and was able to run it for 13.25 hours on a single charge, which is extremely impressive.
RoBe:Do netbook-powered autonomous robots Click through for a cool video of an Eee PC powered robot making and delivering popcorn to its human owner, all initiated through twitter!
Welcome to this week’s netbook roundup. In this space every Monday I’ll highlight netbook news items that might not need their own individual posts but may still be interesting.
Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Review — Laptop Mag reviews the Dell Mini 10 [Portal page]. “Dell’s first 10-inch netbook has a compact chassis, good keyboard, and a crisp 10-inch display, but we wish it offered better battery life for the price”.
There wasn’t much in the press conference about the Seashell and there’s not much in the press release either.
So we’re looking at a 10″ display obviously and 1.1KG making it a very light 10″er. Notice the news about the docking bar and the inclusion of Draft-N Wifi and 3G. This is clearly going to be an Atom-based device, but which one?
Probably the internet’s most popular deal-a-day website Woot.com seems to be quite found of the Asus Eee 900 [Portal page]. They have offered it several times in past and today you can find it on not just one, but two of their sites.
