Asus Eee PC 904 Review

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hipokondriak's Review of Asus Eee PC 904 Laptop

26th May 2009

Overall Rating

2 stars
  • Value for money
    1 stars
  • Screen Quality
    4 stars
  • Ease of Use
    2.5 stars
  • Time Laptop Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Battery Life
    5 stars
Good Points

A nice size HDD and 1Gb DDR memory, which is useful.
An A/B/G wireless network card and onboard 10/100Mbit network port are good too.
A larger than normal keyboard - which is a good feature.
Long battery life from one full charge. I've had just under four hours use and it still showed one bar in the battery indicator.


Bad Points

This machine has absolutely terrible speakers (tinny and lack bass response), a smaller than average screen with a black bezel with the speakers inset either side of the screen.
The basic Linux OS is pretty good but it needs to have the "full OS" hack installed by default.


General Comments

ASUS 3EPC 904 80Gb/1Gb Notebook. After having the 900HA for 8 months and it broke, this was the replacement item.

Vedict: What a wasted opportunity. This machine could be a winner but the manufacturer missed the target by a mile.

If this was my first take on ASUS Netbooks, then I would be sadly mistaken about their overall quality. It is a poor second cousin to the brilliant 900HA/20Gb SSD/1GB machine that it replaced.

A brilliant concept, but to me, it appears that ASUS have created a hybrid machine that fits into no category. It could have the 1.6 Ghz processor, but instead it has the 900Mhz jobby. It could have the larger 10cm screen, but no - they fitted the 8.6cm.

Ultimately, it is a replacement machine and I will treat it as such.

Will I keep it or replace it, the verdict is open right now, but I am giving the Dell Notebook the once over...

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