LATEST NEWS: The full review of the 900HA, the successor of the 900, can be found at www.youtube.com . ========================================= Review of the Asus EEE PC 900 mini-notebook from my dining room table. The Ubuntu-EEE screenshots you see in the video are actually from the Ubuntu-EEE Live CD. I did install and thoroughly test Ubuntu-EEE for my review, but had already installed Windows 2000 when I realized I had completely forgotten to record any screenshots of the Ubuntu installation. I can be such a n00b sometimes… To install Windows 2000, you’ll have to create a new installation disc with the nLite utility available at www.nliteos.com . You’ll need to include the latest Windows 2000 Service Pack and the drivers from the EEE PC 900′s Windows XP driver disc, otherwise the Windows 2000 installation will fail to start. One of the best tweaks you can perform under Windows is to move the swap file from the primary to the secondary solid-state drive. You’ll have more room for your applications, and there will be fewer read accesses to the primary drive. A correction. One of the sample clips was mistakenly credited as “The Next Great Canadian Prime Minister. The title is actually “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister”, which you can find at www.cbc.ca .

An unboxing of the awesome new Toshiba NB200 mini notebook. Apparently we can’t call ‘em ‘netbooks’ anymore. Perfect size for travelling, I really like the USB ‘sleep and charge’ . Also a useable keyboard, a fantastic bit of kit. The exact model is the NB200-11L £289 ex VAT. Some of the specs: CPU – 1.60 GHz Intel® Atom® Processor Technology N270 – Front side bus: 533MHz – Intel® GMA 950 graphics chipset – 512K L2 cache OPERATING SYSTEMS AVAILABLE – Genuine Windows XP Home Edition. HARD DISK DRIVE – 160 GB HDD with 3D sensor for HDD protection RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY – MEMORY (RAM) 1GB DDR2 800MHz SCREEN – 10.1 WSVGA TruBrite with LED backlight (1024×600) COMMUNICATION AND CONNECTIVITY – VGA web camera with embedded microphone – Wireless LAN 802.11 (b/g) with diversity antenna – Fast Ethernet LAN SECURITY & MANAGEABILITY – PC synchronisation via SyncToy 2.0 – Computrace embedded in Bios – Kensington Lock BATTERY LIFE – 6 cell: up to 9 hours PORTS – 3x USB 2.0 (USB Sleep-and-Charge) – RGB, RJ45, DC-in – Headphone, microphone Royalty free music provided by www.partnersinrhyme.com