ASUS EEEPC 900 HA

After a long time of working with windows and needing a new computer I moved to the Mac side for the computing world. I mainly did this because I hated dealing with Vista even knowing I really liked the way XP worked. So instead of keeping XP or moved to Vista I decided to move to a whole new OS the Mac. I found it easy to do almost everything I used to do on my old PC onto the Mac. Well except programming which I ended up using boot camp. How ever I came up to a small problem when they realized the windows 7 beta. After hearing about it much from Leo Laporte and my podcasts I decided that I wanted to test it out but did not want to put a beta OS on my Mac with boot camp also cause I just recently had hard drive problems. So it left me with one problem how do I run windows 7 beta?

After much talking to friends listening to people and reading about computers I decided to get myself a Netbook. I wanted to do this because I thought it would be nice having a smaller computer to play with also because I decided it would be nice trying to run a beta that was supposed to be made for the small Netbook type computers. But then as many of you have noticed there are a tone of Netbooks out there ones from Dell, Hp, Acer, Asus, and so on so which do you go for? I decided I would get whatever one I found that was cheap but that could also run the windows 7 beta.

After much looking I found the Asus EEE PC 900 HA on eBay for $300.00 plus tax. This computer has a 160gig hard drive, 1 gig of ram, 1.6mgz processor, an 8.9” screen with a built in mic and camera, and wireless card. Down side is there is no CD drive and the keyboard is small but I can work with those two things. This computer had all I needed for my indented use and then some. Many of the store built Asus computers usually have a 4-8gig solid state hard drive, which is nice but at the same time I could not use that because I needed at least 9 gigs for windows 7 and I also decided that I would like more in a hard drive then just a small 8 gig computer. This computer also has nice power saving tools that you can set to turn of anything that’s not being used a time. Many computers do that but this tool just makes it a lot easier to do that with.

Overall I am really happy with getting the Asus Netbook to use as a test tool and all. Finding it on eBay was also nice and the computer came with in a day of me ordering it. As I use it I get a lot of people asking about the computer and where I got it from which I see as a push to a smaller computer. Even with its small keyboard that takes some use getting used to the computer is a great and cheap computer for the basic computing use. Not recommended for people that want more then a world and emailing computer.

Now the fun thing installing a OS without a CD drive……..
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