EeePC 900: specifications versions of Windows and Linux
ASUS has announced the availability, price and characteristics of the EeePC 900.
Almost all manufacturers plunged into the breach. The announcements come one after another and look past the commercial success of the EeePC first name, or EeePC 701. The successor was expected but we did not have further technical details. Today it is done:
The EeePC 900 guard so to speak dimensions of its big brother and has a screen 8.9 “, but with a maximum resolution of 800×480 increased to 1024×600. This will bring comfort, especially for web browsing.
The processor is the same, a Celeron-M ULV 353, consume little, and clocked at 900Mhz (against 633Mhz for the Eee first generation).
The RAM is doubled: from 512 to 1GB of DDR2.
The graphic display is managed by an Intel chip UMA.
The integrated webcam changing from 0.3 to 1.3 Mpx.
A more powerful battery, which should offer more than three hours of battery life.
We found three USB ports, Ethernet port, Wi-Fi, the reader multicartes …
In exclusive photographs of the EeePC 900
This version will be equipped with the option of a Windows XP Special ultra-portable or distribution GNU / Linux Xandros. The price will not change, but if space. There will be 4GB available directly on the motherboard of the computer, which will be added 8 gigabytes of flash memory for the version XP, and 16 GB version for GNU / Linux. It is therefore 12 GB of storage with Windows 20 against with Xandros.
The EeePC 900 weigh less than 1kg and is announced for late May in France. It will be marketed for 399 € (same price for XP and Linux versions).