Well I will go check the version. I'd out it's used, since everything was packed normally, although I was amazed by the fact that it inmediately dropped me on the today screen and it didn't had to load jaws. and the battery was half filled about 57 percent. I still connected it to the charger and waited the 4 hours as stated in the manual.
the "version" page of the info dialog says "version 4.20 (created in 14053). copyright 1996-2003 Microsoft corporation. all rights reserved"
the memory is reported as 64 megs, but taking 32 for the OS leaves me with 32 which is the memory of the 400 model. I will definately contact my dealer about it.

O I forgotten, is there an alterrnative for the "windows mobile device center," it's a piece of ****, verry inaccessible. and it eats my memory, ram that is. I use vista. is there a way of installing active sync instead? and sorry for my prafanity.

yeah, i don't understand why i should have to pay 70 dollars for a wireless card. seriously, you can go buy PCI or USB wireless adapters for like 40 bucks, or less than that - more like 20. so why are thesse wireless cf cards so expensive? i use a pac mate, but for wireless i use this here netbook which is even smaller than that.

I must admit it is a little ridiculous that you even need a CF card, mainstream PDAs and many phones even come with wireless connectivity built in as standard. Their expense is likely due to the limited demand for them, making them a "specialist" item. Not specialist as in for us lot, just a niche product.

Yep, by the way, people are underestimating my netbook. The minute I tell them its a small small laptop they're like wow, it must be pretty crappy. I love this thing. Especially considering it doesn't have the crap microsoft calls windows vista installed on it, making 2 gb of ram virtually like 1 gbn on xp. This, by the way, can be upgraded to have 2 gb of ram, without killing the warranty! so can the hard drive.

Did I mention it costs about 320 dollars?

My Asus triple E 901 gives about 4 hours or so with wireless enabled. That said you get a lot more functionality, and can probably get a spare battery or two quite easily for a much lower price.

It is noticeably smaller than a desktop keyboard I admit. I find though I've adapted quite nicely, after being used to laptop keyboards as well.

I wouldn't recommend one as a primary computer though, they just aren't quite as good at keeping up. The flash drive based ones are a very viable alternative to notetakers though for portability. Just be sure to get one with the intel Atom processor, these give better battery life I gather.

I wouldn't recommend one as a primary computer though, they just aren't quite as good at keeping up. The flash drive based ones are a very viable alternative to notetakers though for portability. Just be sure to get one with the intel Atom processor, these give better battery life I gather.

I quite strongly disagree. My netbook has replaced my hp laptop. You say its hard to keep up? How exactly? Its a powerhouse. My 900 ha gets about 5 hours with wireless on. The 904 ha has the six cell, though, so might get more.

Just don't go with the acer. People have had issues with it, and when I went to look at it it felt noticably worse built than the asus.
Asus isn't well known, but they make mid to high end motherboards, same with laptops that you can usually only buy online.
I bought my netbook at staples.

Erm...I really don't mean to be offensive here, but I'll probably come across as such.
The asus netbooks are fast. They're just as powerful as any other laptop out there. Unless your running some quad core system, or have some duel core system with 4 gb ram, they perform just as quickly as any other computer. It doesn't matter if you use a computer with a 1.1 ghz processor or 1.6, but seriously, it does the exact same thing, at the exact same speed. I mean yeah, your quad core desktop - this actually is equal to a duel core - might beat it. BUt for what 99.99 percent of people do it works good and I know of lots of people that use these as they're primary computer, including me. Honestly, this little netbook packs more punch than a lot of modern laptops. Is it going to play the most modern mainstream game? of course not! It takes like 10 seconds for the browser to start. That's too long? I'm just confused.
So...your saying 160 gb isn't enough? For being on the go it most certainly is. Also, if its not enough, upgrade it. Its quite easy to do, and it doesn't void the warranty. Not to mention that the laptops that come out now might have 320 gb drives, but they come with that crap ms calls windows vista on them.
Need I mention that this netbook is like 320 bucks compared with 999 dollars for a regular one, which probably would perform the same anyway?

Yeah, that's what I meant.
I know of someone who has a core 2 duo as well with xp. Sure, the netbook, being a single core, got "thrashed" as he put it by the sony in some ways, but, heres the big thing, not in others. BUt, using an ssd, I can understand why your getting such poor performance. Those ssd's are crap - at least the ones asus put into they're netbooks. You can get much better performing ones for about the price of an 80 gb hard drive.

Hrm, and I can throw mine into a bag too and not worry about damaging the hard drive. Honestly I don't know where to start on this, since hard drives have been in laptops for years and hardly ever fail. hd's can take a beating - sure, with ssd's, you get maybe 5 percent less chance of losing data - then again, if you have a netbook, your not going to throw it around - I'm not directing this at you, but many people on forums touted that ssd was so much better because you can throw your computer. Honestly, who is going to throw a computer. But I digress...

I love this netbook. The hd can take a good thrashing - as they have in the past and will in the future. Sure, its not fool proof, but your not going to drop your netbook, or maybe you are - I can see where having that would sure come in handy, but I've used laptops in school for the last 4 years or so, have dropped a few by accident, but nothings really gone wrong.

I heard sandisc is coming out with a new 32 gb model of ssd. It would cost around the price of a new 60 gb hard drive - I might actually switch over, mainly to play around with. SSd's are quickly catching up to hd's. Its going to be awesome when we actually can get equal performance between ssd and hd. Actually some ssd's are starting to go a bit faster than main hd.

Honestly though, that's why your netbook is so slow right now. The ssd can read ok, but when it comes to writing data it would die (lag badly). I can't imagine using jaws with an ssd - at least, not the one they put in the netbook. And as far as I know on some models of the eee, you can't replace it. Its sautered right onto the motherboard. That's why opening a web browser takes so long. If it was getting too much input at once, it would seem like speech would crash.

Sorry for the misunderstanding earlier - I thought you were using a hard drive based netbook.

Edit:
I don't regret buying the netbook with the hd. But, once ssd's come out and are comporable, I'm going to be buying one of those. They're supposidly no heat at all, a bit better battery. Right now though, at least for most people who want performance, the hard drive is the only way to go. I think there's a 500 gb ssd for around 500 dollars that's way faster than this hard drive. Mind you, prices are dropping quickly. I imagine next year you'll be able to buy an ssd for the same price as a hard drive now.

Oh wait, one more thing. Misconception? How do you figure that. The atom performs just as well as any duo core in most ways, if you have the hard drive model. Comparing a netbook with an ssd to a hard drive - equipt laptop is rediculous, at least the ssd they put in these netbooks. They used it to save money, and obviously it also performs worse than a comporable hd.

hi all,
hmm this thred is getting interesting. well I don't drop big tech things like laptops or notetakers, well, except my old kajetek (A notetaker specific to poland) that was an ainchent one, from the 90's, however, unlike the freedom scientific's braille lite for instance, it's still popular, ba, the firmware is constantly updated, recently it gained some more navigatable menus, instead of the kind of "press n to create a new file, press s to open settings, press k to delete" thingy, you can press p cord and get a programs menu like in windows.
I still have it but I put it aside.
back to the pac mate, ccoolness, I've learned that the card was a "socket Go wi-fi! p500"  there even was a web address on the card, then the links said by them selves, and I had the drivers and their "companian" software, which I installed since it didn't seem to pop any dialogs up after I inserted the card even no "enter driver name" field.
well the program turned out to be slowing down my PM, and it wasn't that accessible either. it was usable but not accessible. right after I removed it, bang! "found new network, "home" what do you want to do?" I said "connect"  but my security blocked it. my wireless network relies on a list of mac addresses of all the laptops in our familly. these are only allowed through. temporarly I turned that off, and using the network card button in the advanced connections page, connected. it all works smoothly but I won't leave it open like that. how can I get the mac address of my wireless card?
except that all is working fine the only incofortable thing is one of the keys, the letter s to be specific, looks like something got to it and at first it's kinda heavy to press and then all is fine, if I leave it unused (Idle) for some time a few minutes it'll have these few presses heavy again.