Asus Eee PC 900 Netbook with 1.6GHz Atom Processor

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900A (Atom) with webcam and non-refurbished. That makes it quite a good deal. It does have the slow and small SSD which will cost about $50 to replace.

Oops this one is a stripped down version with NO WEBCAM. Another case of Ben pulling random incorrect specs out of someplace. Still a decent price though.

Decent enough size and price, only problem is the minuscule hard drive.

It WOULD be a decent price if it came with a usable SSD.

I purchased one of these s-l-o-w machines from Buy.com and it's a total waste of money. I bought 70 netbooks for low income students, so I didn't open the box when I received it, which was so not smart. When I did open the boxes, I loaded antivirus software on them all, but I noticed that the Asus was much slower than all of the others that I had purchased. I seriously loaded software on 2 others and the Asus was still not completed. I got on the web and it took 5 minutes for a page to load, if it loaded at all. IE kept crashing and programs just shut down for no reason. Finally, I simply put the computer back in the box and it's just sitting in a corner. I had to purchase another computer so that all of the children that I planned to help would have one. I learned a huge lesson from this expensive experience.

Yeah, thoroughly test the platform before plunking down $14,000 dollars of some low income kids' charity money.

4gb is plenty useful if you know how.

#5 Are you sure this is what you bought? Can you run IE on Linux?

#8, well, you could (wine), but I don't know why anyone would ever want to. You're probably right, #5 is most likely talking about another model of EeePC.

I have this one (it was $165 total) and replaced SSD.

Remember:

1) You can replace SSD with the fast SATA version. Then it flys

2) With BIOS update even the slow SSD works better

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