And that brings us neatly to the question of price, which is our biggest issue with this new Eee PC. At £329 it's edging more into the realms of standard laptops; you can pick up a brand new, dual core Dell Inspiron specced up to the nines for exactly the same price - a machine you legitimately could use as a primary notebook, whereas arguably the EeePC 900 isn't designed for that.

Price is a massive issue

At the £220 price mark the 701 was pretty much a no-brainer, it was cheap and did everything you could want. Now with the 900 you actually have to make a decision, weigh up whether you want a serious laptop you can use for everything but gaming or do you want something that is significantly smaller, yet with far less grunt for the same price?

There's also the fairly reliable rumour that an Intel Atom-powered version of the 900, replacing the geriatric Celeron CPU, could be making an appearance at this year's Computex show. This ought to provide a bit more oomph and certainly an improvement on battery life too. Combined with our other reservations and despite the beautiful new screen this makes the latest Eee less of a rush-out-and-buy gadget and more of a wait-and-see one.