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The Box and its Contents

The Eee PC 901 is shipped in a pretty small box - far smaller than your typical laptop. The marketing blurbage is kept to a minimum, and mainly consists of a nice cover shot of a white Eee PC 901 sitting on a couple of magazines on a small table, with a coffee cup near by.

The label is simply "Easy. Excellent. Exciting Eee PC"

The back has little more beyond Asus contact information, however there is a label on the side giving the serial number and a description of the machine - ie short form specifications. In our case it said:

• Fine Ebony
• XP
• 12GB SSD
• 1GB DDR2
• Intel ATOM
• WiFi 802.11b/g/n
• 1.3M Camera
• Bluetooth
• 10/100 Ethernet
• YoStore
• Sleeve

Sadly, our pre-release review sample was missing the manual, driver DVD and recovery disk for XP, however I verified with Asus that the retail units shipped to North America will include a printed copy of the manual, a driver/utility DVD and an XP recovery disk.

Asus also told us that the Eee PC 901 as configured above will have an MSRP of $599US

The sleeve fits nicely on the Eee PC, and the power supply is surprisingly small.

I was able to download a PDF of the manual from the global Asus site, and it is well written, and reasonably informative - it should be more than enough for buyers to begin to use their Eee PC. I was pleased to see that it even covered how to restore the SSD to the default factory configuration from the restore disk in case of disaster.

Here is an Eee PC 701 beside the Eee PC 901