That's the compromise that the reviews were complaining about. It's instant-on, but there is only 16G of space. Well, if you paid $100 more, then you'd have 80G of space and it'd be instant-on. Or, you could have 500GB of space, but it wouldn't be instant-on anymore.
The less something costs, the more compromises there are. That's all I'm saying.
Yeah, the 901 was a nice machine. Great screen, working wifi, and very light. I "replaced it" with a newer Eee PC last year, but the newer model was more expensive, had the same CPU, was heavier, and had a much shittier screen. Worst laptop ever.
I replaced that with a Thinkpad X220, and it blows both of them away. (But it cost twice as much.)
Uh? The two last machines I bought were under $500 and they're working pretty well. Price and quality aren't always correlated.