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By using my new Asus EeePC 901 Go while traveling through India for around a month, I noticed several things:

• The EeePC is great!
• The screen is a little bit to dark
• The workmanship could be improved
• Conclusion

The EeePC is great!

It’s (for my purpose) the perfect travel companion with a good tradeoff between size/weight and performance. The battery runs for a long time (5-6 hours).

The screen is a little bit to dark

When using the EeePC outside on sunny days, the screen is a little hard to read because even with 100% brightness, it’s still pretty dark.

The workmanship could be improved

One thing that bothers me is the poor workmanship of the EeePC case. My EeePC is only one month old and I always transport it carefully in a suitable notebook bag. Nevertheless, the case already looks very “used”.

There are some kinds of “micro cracks” in all four corners of the lid cover. I think the glue between the (transparent) top of the lid cover and the (white) main part of the lid did loose a bit and that creates this “micro cracked look”.

Furthermore, the hotkey bar stained the inner side of the lid.

But these small quality problems do not really change my opinion about the EeePC. It’s just a recommendation what could be further improved…

Conclusion

Buying the Asus EeePC 901 Go was one of the best acquisitions in my life!

It’s size, weight, performance, battery life and connections (LAN/WLAN/UMTS) make it the best companion for people who need “real” access to internet (not some kind of semi-internet-access like e.g. an iPhone offers) while travelling around.

I love it!

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For the mobile internet access in Germany, I can recommend these two UMTS providers:

	BASE offers an UMTS flatrate for 17.50€
	Simyo offers a prepaid UMTS solution, 24ct/MB or 10€ for 1GB

I'm using an UMTS card of these providers in the my Asus EeePC 901Go and it works great. Pretty fast and reliable. If you want to order a new UMTS card anyway, please support me by using one of these links. For every order, I get some refund to pay my server bill. Thanks.

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Tags: EeePC, Gadget

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