Arrived today, and I am pleasantly surprised. This is a fast little 'book, right out of the box.

The box was clearly opened once already, but the netbook is clean - both physically and digitally. Just a couple of small scuffs on its spine, but they are very minor and I haven't tried rubbing them out yet.

No private info on Xandros installation, and it booted into a startup "Enter your name" screen, so it appears to have been reimaged.

I am getting EasyPeasy 1.1 on a USB stick right now so I can try a different version of the OS. Asus desktop system works well enough, but it is not customizable enough for my tastes.

If anyone gets a new SSD to work, please let us all know what and how you did it.

MalAndrew wrote:12:35 PM Fedex delivered my eeepc

12:45 netbook booted and verified that alls good.

12:50 swapped 4gb ssd for new 16gb ssd (arrived via ebay and USPS this morning.

1:00 started XP install

2:20 Completed XP install

2:25 installed asus drivers

2:40 Logged into woot and posted this comment using my new eeepc

great!! what 16gb ssd did you buy that worked for you, might i ask?

Amdusias wrote:16gig SSD doesn't detect in mine. 2G ram does though. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix to the 4G drive and still have room for some storage. Bummed about the DOA 16G SSD drive though. Maybe swap it back with New Egg and try again. It isn't even detected in the BIOS as being there but the original works like a champ.

Check the info at runcore.com. There seems to be 2 types of pci-e ssd drives, PATA and SATA. That website references a bios upgrade required for sata version. I don't know if pata version is "plug-n-play" with present bios rev. Maybe you got the sata drive requiring the bios upgrade?

Was delivered today but I got home too late to pick it up from the package room in my building. Have to sit on top of that knowledge until Monday, when I will finally get to check out it's condition. Will post further discoveries.

Ordered 3 of these netbooks. They arrived in a sealed shipping box. Upon opening the box I found that all three netbook boxes had been opened, the box seals broken. The netbooks were haphazardly placed inside of the boxes and flopping around in the box. This had to have happened BEFORE shipping. These were purchased as REFURBISHED netbooks NOT OPEN BOX items. There appears to be fraud going on here!

eroot wrote:great!! what 16gb ssd did you buy that worked for you, might i ask?

I got a supertalent SATA ssd (FPM16GRSE). Lee is correct about the bios upgrade being needed in order to enable SATA support, but you'll want to do that anyways.

MalAndrew wrote:I got a supertalent SATA ssd (FPM16GRSE). Lee is correct about the bios upgrade being needed in order to enable SATA support, but you'll want to do that anyways.

excellent, thank you. i have grabbed the 900-ASUS-1006.zip file from support.asus.com in preparation of the items arrival.

yes i think the term "refurbished" may not have been entirely accurate here.

I didn't realize that 'refurbished' meant there would be crusty spaghetti sauce on the edge of the touch pad and nasty guppy on the keys. One of the instruction pages also had grease and guppy all over it. I know you can't expect the best with refurb but c'mon Woot, a simple once over would have found this guppy.

jmsmits wrote:Great. Shop there and stop complaining. Good riddance to ya.


Sorry - just had to comment.

No problem. You can keep your comments to yourself, and I'll keep mine to myself.

Sorry - just had to comment.

eroot wrote:excellent, thank you. i have grabbed the 900-ASUS-1006.zip file from support.asus.com in preparation of the items arrival.

yes i think the term "refurbished" may not have been entirely accurate here.

You'll also need to download the flash utility from asus.

Got mine today too. Was worried about hslee's comments, but mine arrived like some of the other posters.

Box was a bit messed up, and obviously opened. But the device itself was completely clean. Not a physical mark on the device, and the HDD was freshly wiped.

I'm currently putting easy peasy on it as I type this. The included os was functional, but I wanted something with a bit more speed and features.

jmsmits wrote:Great. Shop there and stop complaining. Good riddance to ya.

Me, I checked the policies before I bought. I knew it was going to take at least a week. I'm not saying it doesn't suck, but I knew this. It's like those people who complain about certain TV and radio shows. Here's a clue folks: TURN IT OFF!!! Nobody's forcing you to shop on Woot. If you don't like the shipping policies (there are no options to go brown or express), then don't shop here.

Sorry - just had to comment.

howard stern called...he wants his rant back...

MalAndrew wrote:You'll also need to download the flash utility from asus.

ah, i was wondering about that. i was reading one just had to rename the unzipped rom file 900.ROM and place it on a fat16 SDHC card and press alt-F2 on boot during post and it would read the SDHC card and install it.

which flash utility do i need?

thanks!

My netbook arrived on Saturday 4/25/2009.

It was refurbished and nicely packed including a protective film over the screen.

I am very happy with this purchase and it does just what I wanted it to do; surf the net.

For a cost < $200 it is a very good deal.

Another good Woot experience for me.

I thought this came with a webcam. The one I received does not have one. Did woot send me the wrong one?

drloiselle wrote:I thought this came with a webcam. The one I received does not have one. Did woot send me the wrong one?

Nope... sorry... the one over at Sellout had the webcam, but this one is an odd model that doesn't. Most of the other 900s do have one, but I think people have suspected that this one's the Target model, which didn't have a webcam. On the plus side though, you won't have to be paranoid about a webcam looking at you all the time... (This is something I would worry about, but I'm probably just weird about things like that).

eroot wrote:ah, i was wondering about that. i was reading one just had to rename the unzipped rom file 900.ROM and place it on a fat16 SDHC card and press alt-F2 on boot during post and it would read the SDHC card and install it.

which flash utility do i need?

thanks!

I was the one that had the DOA unit with the bad checksum on the bios. the unit locked up on the error and wanted the 900.ROM file to be reloaded from a USB drive. This might be the way the computer behaves with faulty bios, going into some auto-recovery sequence. I was able to install Bios 1006
by renaming the new bios file to 900.ROM.

I see that the base Linux OS has a bios updating utlity. Select the Settings tab and then open Add/Remove files to find Bios Updater.
Normal

Mine arrived and was well packaged and clean. Some of you posted you replaced the SSD. I bought the super talent 16 GB SSD, but everything I read says you can't replace the SSD on this machine. What am I missing? For those of you that did the replace, was soldering required or did you just pop it in?

Mine came in nice and neat with all packaging material. The seal was broken but I doubt they were gonna spend more money on new seals.

People that are dissing the Linux must live in a huge closet together cuase this is by far the easiest linux I've seen. A menu tab at top to choose from internet/games/etc and each page has HUGE icons. The little 3 year old from the Microsoft commercial would say this looks like a kids toy.


I the Super Talent 32gb SSD has gone up in price twice in the past week so I'm gonna hold out of upgrading for now.

The touch screen add-on I'm gonna do will be a nice touch.

et1011 wrote:Mine arrived and was well packaged and clean. Some of you posted you replaced the SSD. I bought the super talent 16 GB SSD, but everything I read says you can't replace the SSD on this machine. What am I missing? For those of you that did the replace, was soldering required or did you just pop it in?

I just opened the bottom panel and the ram and SSD are replace able. I read that once you replace the stock SSD you need to disable it in the bios. It'll still show up as storage but of course its not there. Thats what I read, I havent confirmed it myself.

rangerscott wrote:Mine came in nice and neat with all packaging material. The seal was broken but I doubt they were gonna spend more money on new seals.

People that are dissing the Linux must live in a huge closet together cuase this is by far the easiest linux I've seen. A menu tab at top to choose from internet/games/etc and each page has HUGE icons. The little 3 year old from the Microsoft commercial would say this looks like a kids toy.


I the Super Talent 32gb SSD has gone up in price twice in the past week so I'm gonna hold out of upgrading for now.

The touch screen add-on I'm gonna do will be a nice touch.

the "simple" gui to common apps can be disabled for a more "linuxy" experience.

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:getkde

I want to add 2 gigs of ram. What one do I add?

MDT010 wrote:Nope... sorry... the one over at Sellout had the webcam, but this one is an odd model that doesn't. Most of the other 900s do have one, but I think people have suspected that this one's the Target model, which didn't have a webcam. On the plus side though, you won't have to be paranoid about a webcam looking at you all the time... (This is something I would worry about, but I'm probably just weird about things like that).

You can also buy a compatible webcam and install it yourself. Don't ask me which model, check eeeuser.com.

rangerscott wrote:The touch screen add-on I'm gonna do will be a nice touch.

Touch screen? where can I find information about this?

HSLee wrote:Check the info at runcore.com. There seems to be 2 types of pci-e ssd drives, PATA and SATA. That website references a bios upgrade required for sata version. I don't know if pata version is "plug-n-play" with present bios rev. Maybe you got the sata drive requiring the bios upgrade?

BOOM! HSLee For The Win. You are, in every sense of the word, in my most humble opinion.."Da Man" unless you are female....in which case you are in fact, still "Da Man".

BIOS 1006 worked like a champ. Make sure you use a 1G drive formatted FAT or FAT 16 as the updater (which is built-in) won't play ball with FAT 32 or a large thumb. At the bios screen simply hit [ALT]+[F2] and it starts detecting the thumb. I renamed the bios file to 900.ROM by the way.

The drive just pops in. the old one is held by two screws...use them to hold the new one in.

Next I loaded Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix via a thumbdrive image.

I also swapped out to 2G of ram. I will be using this to run emulators. Stella for Atari 2600 runs nice on here. Adventure anyone?

Amdusias wrote:BOOM! HSLee For The Win. You are, in every sense of the word, in my most humble opinion.."Da Man" unless you are female....in which case you are in fact, still "Da Man".

BIOS 1006 worked like a champ. Make sure you use a 1G drive formatted FAT or FAT 16 as the updater (which is built-in) won't play ball with FAT 32 or a large thumb. At the bios screen simply hit [ALT]+[F2] and it starts detecting the thumb. I renamed the bios file to 900.ROM by the way.

The drive just pops in. the old one is held by two screws...use them to hold the new one in.

Next I loaded Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix via a thumbdrive image.

I also swapped out to 2G of ram. I will be using this to run emulators. Stella for Atari 2600 runs nice on here. Adventure anyone?

actually in the default xandros linux that is installed there is a perl script called biosupdate.pl which i think is in /usr/sbin

/usr/sbin/biosupdate.pl --install http://update.eeepc.asus.com/bios/900-ASUS-1006.zip

in case one doesn't have a flash card or doesn't want to be arsed with formatting one.

still good news on the SATA pcie mini 8)


i should also add the above command is going to need the existing "hidden" partitions to still be in place, so if you deleted them to make more space that likely won't work. same goes for installing XP on it if you deleted all of the hidden partitions for it's installation.

Anyone else's Eee still trapped in Hutchins, TX? Anybody in Massachusetts and/or other parts of New England gotten theirs yet? Mine says it'll be delivered tomorrow, but it's been in Hutchins since Friday or Saturday...

MDT010 wrote:Anyone else's Eee still trapped in Hutchins, TX? Anybody in Massachusetts and/or other parts of New England gotten theirs yet? Mine says it'll be delivered tomorrow, but it's been in Hutchins since Friday or Saturday...

yeah, mine is still "in hutchins" supposed to be in wisconsin by tomorrow though... we'll see if that happens.

edit - optimistic though... i don't want to sound like i'm complaining. i'm really excited for this thing to get here. i've been looking for a machine to run strictly as a linux environment for some time, and this should be perfect... assuming i'm not one of the unlucky few to get one loosely packed and covered in spaghetti sauce...

olsenm wrote:yeah, mine is still "in hutchins" supposed to be in wisconsin by tomorrow though... we'll see if that happens.

edit - optimistic though... i don't want to sound like i'm complaining. i'm really excited for this thing to get here. i've been looking for a machine to run strictly as a linux environment for some time, and this should be perfect... assuming i'm not one of the unlucky few to get one loosely packed and covered in spaghetti sauce...

I'm in New Jersey and mine has been listed as 'left FedEx facility' since the 23rd, which strikes me as odd. It didn't leave from Hutchings, though, it left from Irving, Tx.

I don't wanna complain, I know that crummy shipping is sort of part of the deal at Woot, but if the item remains 'In Transit' for another day or two I'm gonna have to start assuming it got lost along the way.

I checked the ones I received. Besides being poorly packaged, they are NOT the specifications advertised. The ones I received only have 2GB SSD drives in them. One will not charge it's battery. Another has no sound. There was definate fraud in this sale. Anyone want to get together for a lawsuit?

Mine's supposed to be here tomorrow, according to FedEx tracking.

I've been reading this thread and laughing at all the people bragging they've successfully ditched Linux in favor of Windows. This is like buying a house and replacing the solid hardwood floors with Pergo. They're so proud of themselves, too. I facepalm to see it.

dwasifar wrote:Mine's supposed to be here tomorrow, according to FedEx tracking.

I've been reading this thread and laughing at all the people bragging they've successfully ditched Linux in favor of Windows. This is like buying a house and replacing the solid hardwood floors with Pergo. They're so proud of themselves, too. I facepalm to see it.

well if you've read at all on the process of installing XP on these, it is non-trivial.

personally i have run slackware on my home machines since 3.3 in 1996, and currently run a modified slack on the eee pc 900 i already have.

now, purposely installing ubuntu on something... well. i'd laugh at that.

each to their own.

it is nice to feel superior when one can, hmm?

bstux wrote:Touch screen? where can I find information about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8-BbOWVgXg


http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2008/07/asus-eee-pc-900-with-touch-screen.html

MDT010 wrote:Anyone else's Eee still trapped in Hutchins, TX? Anybody in Massachusetts and/or other parts of New England gotten theirs yet? Mine says it'll be delivered tomorrow, but it's been in Hutchins since Friday or Saturday...

I'm in Connecticut, and it left Irving, TX on Friday at 10:41pm. I think it's safe to assume this thing isn't getting on a plane, so figure on 20 hours to get from metro Dallas to Springfield or Newark. 8 hours a day driving gets it to the Northeast sort center by tomorrow or Wednesday, another day to truck it to Hartford, so my delivery date of Wednesday is likely more like Friday.

I've gotten my hand slapped in this thread for offending the Lord Woot and St. $5 Shipping, so I will limit my comment to "You get what you pay for."

Hopefully the one I get at least works...

eroot wrote:well if you've read at all on the process of installing XP on these, it is non-trivial.

I'm sure it is. But replacing hardwood with Pergo would be a big job too. The question is not, how hard is it, but rather, why would you want to do it?

Mine was stuck in Tx for days...

It's in Conn now...

Will fly into Bangor Maine bout 6 am and be 'out for deli' tomorrow!!

WOOT!

I have not recived my pc yet

there is no doubt that woot droped the ball here...

they bought a- lot of computers that are not what they thought they were...

While some wooters seem to be happy most seemed to get a non referbished peice of guppy...

I hope woot goes good on this bad deal...

dwasifar wrote:I'm sure it is. But replacing hardwood with Pergo would be a big job too. The question is not, how hard is it, but rather, why would you want to do it?

touche`

"On FedEx vehicle for delivery"

i ordered three, one for my company, one for me to be used as a gift for a friends birthday, and one for a co-workers personal use.

i nervously await their arrival. i will report on their condition.

Mine arrived today just before I was about to leave for the office. It was pretty obviously a return but in good shape nonetheless.

I'm still undecided about RAM and SD upgrades. I'm going to see how well I like it as is and go from there.