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Asus Eee PC 900 – Batteries, Intel Atom

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Asus Eee PC 900 DigiTimes has a couple of articles up about the Asus Eee PC 900 battery life and a bit more information about when the Intel Atom-based devices will be available.

First up – Hong Kong customers of the Eee PC 900s are finding that they are getting 4-cell 4400mAh batteries instead of the 4-cell 5800mAh batteries available with some sample Eee PC 900s issued to reviewers. Asustek said it would be introducing the 5800mAh battery in later devices and that it was a mistake that review samples had the higher capacity batteries, however it is investigating replacing the 4400mAh batteries.

DigiTimes also reported that Asustek has ordered a substantial number of Intel Atom CPUs, along with Acer and Dell (which could end up in Dell’s netbook/ultraportable) and that HP has ordered a smaller number of VIA C7-M for its Mini-Note:

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Asus Eee PC 10-inch Model

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PC World is reporting that in addition to the 9-inch Asus Eee PC 900 that will soon be available, there will be a 10-inch Asus Eee PC available later this year. The Eee PC 900 was just launched in Taiwan today, when the announcement by … Read more

Asus Eee PC 900 Reviews – Windows XP

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Yesterday, a couple of sites posted reviews of the Windows XP versions of the Asus Eee PC 900 (we’ve posted a few links to reviews in the past week of the Linux version of the 9-inch Asus Eee PC – you can find them here). … Read more

Asus Eee PC 900 in US – May 12, $549

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Crave is reporting that the 9-inch Asus Eee PC 900 will be available in the United States (and presumably Canada) on May 12, 2008. It’ll retail starting at $549 (for comparison, the 7-inch Asus Eee PC initially launched for around $150 less). Even though this … Read more