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One thing that hasn’t changed is the processor inside the Eee. It’s the same Intel Celeron 900MHz CPU on a 915GM motherboard. That’s where the Eee trumps the Via C7-M HP’s Mini-Note, which otherwise has a far better keyboard, screen quality and much more storage—but not a much higher price tag.
The extra memory gives the Eee 900 slightly better performance but despite scoring higher than usual for a PC this size on our benchmarks, performance in general doesn’t feel particularly responsive under Windows. There’s a natural limit to how powerful an application you’ll want to run on a small machine like this, because of the keyboard and screen size. We had no problem with the majority of applications, including streaming video in Windows Media Player, but we couldn’t get the VLC media player to play WMV or MOV video files, even locally, without freezing, pixelating or crashing.
The 900MHz Celeron processor inside the Eee 900 gives it a performance advantage over machines like the HP Mini-Note, which uses a low-power Via chip.
Another area where performance is disappointing is battery life. Increasing the screen size means a much bigger draw on the battery and ASUS’ own estimated battery life is half an hour less than for the Eee 701; just three hours. In use, setting Windows for maximum battery life, turning on Wi-Fi and setting screen brightness to full we got only 90 minutes of use for a mix of surfing, playing music, looking at photos and creating documents. We saw similar times for watching video files. Reduce the screen brightness and you can get this up to two hours, which is still very disappointing.
The power brick is small and easy to carry and the battery charges quickly, but that’s no comfort if you’re nowhere near a power outlet. In many countries Aus is shipping a smaller 4400mAh battery such as Asus A42-A3 Battery, Asus A42-A4 Battery, Asus A42-L5 Battery, Asus A42-M6 Battery, Asus A42-U5F Battery, Asus A42-V1 Battery, Asus A42-V6 Battery, Asus A42-W1 Battery, Asus A42-W3 Battery, Asus ACGACCBATTL8400 Battery, Asus BA-04 Battery; the larger 5100 mAh battery would give another half hour of use, and it’s worth checking which battery you get before you buy. Even so, you need the double-height extended battery to get anything approaching a reasonable battery life.
The 4400mAh battery gives the Eee 900 as little as 90 minutes of battery life.
The larger screen lowers the battery life and puts up the price of the new Eee PC to around $550. That means it puts it into competition with cheap laptops that may be less portable, but give you a bigger screen, much larger storage and a longer battery life. The Eee 900 PC is still small and attractive but it’s not quite as portable and it’s not as obviously a bargain at the price.
The ASUS Eee 900 PC is still small and as easy to carry as a book; but the shorter battery life may mean you don’t want to carry it as much.
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