I had another play with an Asus Eee PC in an airport over the weekend. At £215 it took all my will power to stop me reaching for the plastic, but I'm so glad I did as it seems the 9" model is finally here!

The 901 will be infinitely more usable with its half-decent 1024 x 600 display.  Ppre-order prices seem to be around £330 but will hopefully fall when the unit starts to ship later this month. Although the new ultra mobile machine uses the same Celeron M processor, we hear it will run at 900MHz, compared to the 630MHz of of the old 701 model...

Other specs are pretty much the same with regard to the built in 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, 1.3MP webcam and USB/VGA/Ethernet ports.

www.asus.com.tw