Hands-on with the Asus Eee PC 904

Asus has delivered what it says will be its last Eee PC portable for a while (other Eee-branded products are on the way, though) – the Eee PC 904. Essentially an Eee PC 900 in the Eee PC 1000's body, the idea is that it offers a large, comfortable keyboard at a commendably low price. We'll publish our review shortly, but in the meantime, here's a short video that shows the Eee PC 904 alongside the 1000.

The Eee PC 904 doesn't get the Eee PC 1000's 10in screen and instead has the same 8.9in panel as the 900 and 901. It has a big 6600mAh battery though, along with an 80Gb hard disk, making it an interesting alternative to the still-available 900. It has the old Intel Celeron-M 900MHz processor rather than the new 1.6GHz Atom N270, but performance tests of the two chips haven't show a huge performance difference.

With a suggested retail price of £269 inc VAT, the Eee PC 904 compares favourably to the £299 901 and £349 1000. Its SRP is even lower that the selling price of the obsolete (at least for Asus) Eee PC 900, although it remains to be seen what price Asus vendors actually sell the 904 at.

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