Asus EeePC 900 owners get free longer lasting batter

Companies make mistakes and some companies are even capable of doing the right thing.  After reports came in that some EeePC 900 owners in Hong Kong received models with lower capacity batteries, Asus has chalked it all up to a simple mistake and will be sending owners a complimentary larger capacity battery.

Granted, I can’t read the statement on Asus’s Hong Kong site but Engadget says the company thanks its customers for their business and they will be soon be sending out 5800mAh replacement batteries.  No word on how long those batteries will last time wise, though.

I’m also left wondering on what batteries Asus sent out with the EeePC 900s in the first place.  Hopefully, the company will have these problems addressed by the time the device ships to the US next month.

If you must have the EeePC 900 then sure buy one of the first models but it may pay to wait as later models may be endowed with Intel’s Atom processor which is probably a bit better than the Celeron Asus is using in these early units.

To each their own, I think I’m just going to wait, provided the ones with Atom processors actually make it to market; they are slightly more than just rumor right now but do make sense.

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• Asus working to release Atom based EeePC 900 with more features in June
• 9-inch EeePC named EeePC 900 and gets detailed specs
• Forget the EeePC 900, here’s the 10-inch Atom-based EeePC
• Forget the Asus EeePC 901, here’s model 1001
• Asus EeePC 900 on sale now with Windows XP or Linux