Hercules eCafe EC-900 netbook now shipping in Europe
The first Hercules eCafe netbook was a bit underhwelming, to put it mildly. Sure, the Hercules eCafe EC-800 it was one of the few tiny laptops on the market with an 8 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display. But it also featured a pokey 500MHz AMD Geode CPU. Noe Hercules is back with a new model that offers a faster processor in a package just as small.
The Hercules eCafe EC-900 has an 8.9 inch screen, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 1.8″ 60GB hard drive. It also sports 3 USB ports, an SDHC card reader, a VGA port, 802.11b/g WiFi, and a 6-cell battery. The EC-900’s speakers are located just below the display, which at least in theory, could give make this netbook sound louder, if not necessarily better than similar models.
While Hercules doesn’t have any information about the eCafe EC-900 on its web page at the moment, you can read more about it at several French web sites including Blogeee and Generation MP3. Or you can visit the Pioneer Australia web site, since that company sells a virtually identical netbook as the Pioneer DreamBook Lite IL3, which is likely made by the same ODM.
Source: Liliputing
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12 August 2009
This ecafe 900 xp model is a nice unit but does get very HOT and my unit failed in just 2 days
But please note if your machine Fails like mine, even after 2 days all they would offer is a Repair!
10 days collect and return – they also discourage contacting ur retailer and say they will not except the item back.
I guess as most good retailers will Refund or Replace within 30 days. and ecafe is not be keen to do that.
I had a Refund and purchased a Zoostorm
Also the battery take a mamouth ammount of time to charge wheather using it or not around 5 hrs for a full charge.
If there customer servive was better – i would have had a replacment – this was the main reason for refund.
davetech
12 August 2009
Hmm, interesting…this will be informative for our visitors. Thanks
21 February 2010
I bought my Hercules Ecafe about 7 months ago
and the battery is no longer charging, so I need a new battery I can not find one on the Internet and trying to find any information from Hercules is impossible. There doesn,t seem to be any customer service Department. Help would be much appreciated.
Thank You
Patricia
25 February 2010
Did you try here: http://ts.hercules.com/eng/