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Posted at 11:00 AM on Monday 08/17/09 by
Ben
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Woot.com has the Asus Eee PC 900 Netbook with 1.6GHz Atom Processor for $170 + $5 shipping = $175 shipped. It sports an 8.9" SVGA screen, with 1GB DDR2, 4GB SSD, 4 cell, running Linux .
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    bsg75 - Posted 11:16 am PDT 08/17/09 (686 Posts)  Report Spam

    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.

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    bsg75 - Posted 11:18 am PDT 08/17/09 (686 Posts)  Report Spam

    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.

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    gassyjoe - Posted 11:19 am PDT 08/17/09 (2518 Posts)  Report Spam

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

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    techsupport - Posted 11:20 am PDT 08/17/09 (5129 Posts)  Report Spam

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

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    Rubleaux - Posted 11:39 am PDT 08/17/09 (17 Posts)  Report Spam

    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.

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    techsupport - Posted 11:51 am PDT 08/17/09 (5129 Posts)  Report Spam

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

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    doomed - Posted 12:04 pm PDT 08/17/09 (1232 Posts)  Report Spam

    4gb is plenty useful if you know how.

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    Kyser_Soze - Posted 12:07 pm PDT 08/17/09 (731 Posts)  Report Spam

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

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    Chaosed0 - Posted 1:52 pm PDT 08/17/09 (90 Posts)  Report Spam

    #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.

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    BigPuppy - Posted 7:14 pm PDT 08/17/09 (637 Posts)  Report Spam

    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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