I’d ordered the 700 for my daughter to take on her travels, so she could keep in touch. But demand appeared to be making it difficult to get supplies even for major companies in th UK. After waiting about a month, I read about the 900 supposedly available early May. I hope it isn’t delayed as I’ve now cancelled the 700 order, which was to late for my daughters trip abroad anyway. And hope to acquire a 900 soon? for me to play with test out until my daughter is of on her travels again.
With the 900 having the ram doubled to 1Mb, the disk more than doubled to 20Gb (12GB if you insist on XP), the web cam up from 300k to 1.3Mega pixels, and an increase in screen size to 9" screen, I am really interested in it as a travelling computer. Especially as airlines are trimming baggage allowance, probably so than can squeeze more money out of you if you are over the allowance.
The slight increase in weight, and reduced battery time appear to be the only negatives over the 700. Oh and with the cost around 50% higher it’s now in the cheap laptop range. So you’ve got to trade it off on all the extra’s, the weight and small keyboard against a laptop/notebook which weighs about 2.5 times more, probably needs extra memory, especially if it’s got Vista loaded, and is unlikely to have a webcam, and possibly doesn’t have WiFi either.
Harris Chester