Asus Eee PC 900 US Launch

The Asus Eee PC 900 will finally launch in the US come May 12th next month. Prices start from $549 upwards, which is $50 more expensive than the half grand figure being tossed about. Still, what can $50 get you these days? Not much, apparently. Do you prefer the 9″ model over the $399 7″ predecessor? On paper, you do get a larger screen size at a higher resolution (1,024 x 600 to boot), double the RAM at 1GB, and 12GB of solid state disk storage for the Windows XP model. The Linux version will feature 20GB of solid state disk storage, but I wish the SSDs inside would be reversed instead since Windows XP applications take way more space.