Have an Asus triple E 901. The drawback again with the SSD is they have two drives, one 4gb with windows and another 8gb. Install all software on the 8gb drive, you can actually save space if you install office home and student after removing both Works and openOffice. However windows updates cause real problems with the very limited space.

Small note though, the 901 does come with an SD card slot. You could quite happily drop an 8gb SD card for storing your files in.

Another question is how paranoid about damage are you? I was always terrified with my laptop about the hard drive being damaged, I have always kept it in a special padded laptop bag while I carry it around. The SSD netbook I'm quite happy carrying around just in its included sleeve.

Battery life is good, performance is generally good. Use the triple E utility to turn off the wireless when you don't need it, as well as bluetooth, and I always keep the webcam off for those few extra minutes. The super hybrid engine has four options - auto, power save, high and super performance. Forget auto, though this is the default when it boots. Power save is fine for if you're just listening to music or books. High performance is best when you're really working on it, and you can still get easily 3 or 4 hours out of it with the wireless off. It does tend to run warm though. Super performance I only use when on the mains and doing stuff that really bogs it down, it runs ridiculously hot.

Heat is a problem on high performance still, but if you can try to let some air under it as much as you can. The more air you let under it the less it uses its fan and the more battery you save like that.

I would also recommend a USB optical drive, because without that you won't be able to install office if you need to. You don't need tot ake it with you, just use it for specific installs and so on.

Sound quality is good, and you have all the effects available through the realtech utility, but for some reason it doesn't seem to give me stereo in audio games. Works fine in media player, but lone wolf is just flat mono as far as I can tell as was top speed 2. No idea why.

Well like I said stereo is a no, so playing GMA games is very hard to impossible. It has the performance to run audio games though, so if you cna find ones without stereo it's fine. Muds might be tricky with the tiny keyboard.

The iso file thing is true.

The drives are as separate partitions, I wouldn't have said the windows updates were an issue if it was one 12gb drive. As it comes you have below 1gb free, and updates really do make trouble... but then my AV complained if I didn't install them.

If you aren't concerned about the fragility of a hard drive you're probably fine going with the HDD model, which might be a better option. I would only recommend the SSD for people like me who are paranoid about the fragility.

Standby mode works well with Jaws, and it lets you bring it back up in only a couple of seconds. You also don't lose your processor performance options this way. You'll probably have to shut down to swap battery, but if you need to move between rooms a lot then standby is very useful indeed. Set it to auto standby when the lid shuts and you can then just go.

Well the internal sound quality is very nice stereo aside, good for music especially if you set the equaliser in the realtech utility to your tastes.

Hope it all goes well.

Very nice.

Well as I said, the netbook actually does have stereo... it just doesn't seem to work in audio games. I had mentioned it works fine in media player, but oddly not in Lone Wolf or Top Speed 2. Might be some kind of glitch with the direct sound drivers or something, I don't know.

I have the EEPC1000. It's the linux model. I installed easypeasy (custom ubuntu for the eee) on it. Stereo sound works fine in audiogames for me under wine. I'm considering putting windows on it as a) the file system on the OS' ssd is corupt somehow and b) not having windows available to me means I miss out on a lot of fun, and I'll admit htat orca can sometimes be slow (+ linux access is far from perfect - I'd need sighted help to fsck and diagnose anyway).  I think most netbooks ship with Intel HD Audio which can support stereo quite nicely.

Well, I went out today and got my netbook. I just found out it wasn't quite the one I wanted, but with what I spent, we'll see how it works.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp … 8079342133

It is the same as the rest of the newer ones, but no bluetooth, and intel 900 MHz processor versus Atom 1.6 GHz. We'll see over the next couple days if that is going to hurt or not. My gf actually found it searching for me last night to see if I could beat newegg's price. It's the 8.9", 160 GB HDD 1 GB RAM (2 GB stick ordered tonight) and all that. First thing I did, after installing screen reader is killed the webcam. If I need it, I can turn it on when the time comes. I plan on installing VIPMud on it later to see how that'll work on mudding on this thing. I am definitely going to have to get used to the super tiny keyboard, but it's ultra small portability is what I was aiming for versus a 10" model.

I can't seem to update this thing, it seems that possibly the older Asus updates don't like JAWS? I also can't seem to find any power settings aside from Windows "standard" settings where you can choose laptop, desktop, always on, and so on. There was some power utility that was in my startup folder, and the same in my program files folder under Asus, but JAWS for some reason either won't open or access it. So I guess that means no super hybrid engine thing for me.

I plan on dropping the cd into the other computer later/tomorrow to see what I can dig up on finding a manual and what not.

Also, any of you with the Asus netbooks running JAWS 9(or 10 too I guess?) have troubles where Alt + F4 doesn't actually close anything and acts like you didn't press any keys at all (or just like you hit one or the other)?

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Don't I feel kind of stupid now. I knew that the FN and control were switched around, making Cntrl the outermost key. But the "`" being on the top row... Yeah, I was totally hitting ALT F3 and not F4.  The American and British keyboards must be the same then. I never thought to do the Keyboard help because I figured that everything was "sort of" normal compared to a regular keyboard. Thanks for that tasty little tidbit of serious help.
If the 900 MHz version actually runs faster than the Atoms, maybe I won't fret yet. I figured it only having half the processor of the atom, performance would be noticeably slower, but guess not. I plan on getting an 8 cell replacement battery for this, so battery life has  just improved for me.

Now... just to get used to this damn ultra tiny keyboard.

Yeah, I found the PG up/down, Home/end keys real quick. I figure dthat those were "standard" laptop layout. Thanks though.

I guess for what I paid for this thing, I can't complain (too much). I mean, I saved over $40 versus the atom version on newegg.com (both this and that one were brand new), and newegg came out to be the best (trustable) price I could find anywhere.

I found that multitasking on this is NOTHING like multitasking on my laptop. 900 MHz versus C2D 2.2 GHz is definitely showing a difference. (Who wouldda thunk it?) I did manage to partition my hard drive (I had it for three days before I was pulling it apart to see how accessible things were). Now that I did that, I found it runs smoother a bit. I wish though that they had put in a whisper/quiet drive instead of the one that  they did. The whisper drives from Western Digital, Hitachi, and Samsung would have definitely helped with battery life, and durability. *shrug* Who knows maybe I'll end up taking the drive out of this and replacing it soon with a better version, and possibly a larger drive.

For those that have a hard drive version out there runing Windows, here is a suggestion (that I do with any and all PCs that I run and work on). Take the drive, and partition a space for pagefile. Tell Windows to not use the C: for pagefile, and switch it to the area you just partitioned. Believe it or not, just by doing that, you will speed up the computer a little (and with a max processing capability of 1.6 GHz, everything can help).

I still haven't gotten everything set up on this thing yet, but I am liking it thus far. Eventually, I'll have to throw on MS reader with the TTS engine so I can read the like hundred and change Star Wars books I have (along with all the other ones in .LIT format).