Asus Confirms Specs, Price of Eee PC 904 and 1000 261
Ken E. writes "Asus seems to have completed its Eee PC laptop line-up, at least for the time being. The Taiwanese manufacturer has now confirmed both specifications and UK pricing of the Eee PC 904 and Eee PC 1000 — its two latest models. The Eee PC 904 is essentially an Eee PC 900 in an Eee PC 1000 chassis (big keyboard, 8.9in screen, Celeron-M 900MHz, Windows XP) and will cost £269 inc VAT. The Eee PC 1000 will cost £349 inc VAT for an Intel Atom (1.6GHz) chip, 10in screen, 80Gb HDD and Windows XP. Looks like those early Eee PC 900 adopters (£329 inc VAT, initially) have been stiffed. Still, that's progress, I guess ..."
How much do those MS Windows licences cost? (Score:3, Informative)
The world is full of idiots. (Score:5, Informative)
If you buy electronics, the price WILL GO DOWN in the future. This is not being "stiffed." This is reality. Stop whining. The fact that internet whiners got lucky ONE TIME with the iPhone is a freak occurrence. Do not expect your whining to every pay off for any of the millions of other electronic devices sold every day.
Re:Perfect (Score:2, Informative)
Re:erm, who actually wants one? (Score:5, Informative)
I think the niche that Eee PC is trying to fill is for people who don't want the size and weight associated with the 13" screen. The Eee PC models have screens that range from 7" to 10", in weights from 2 - 3 pounds.
There are other options for palmtops and ultraportables, but they all seem to be quite a bit more expensive than the Eee PC models. I'm sure the competitors are justified in what they are charging - perhaps Eee PC has found the sweet spot of price and performance.
Re:Progress? Conspiracy! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Enough with the "I got ripped off!" whining (Score:3, Informative)
I have a 17" LCD that sits, alone, on my desk... plugs nicely right into the 701, and poof, 1280x1024. :)
Re:Perfect (Score:3, Informative)
I'm sure the 40Gb SSD is much more expensive than the 80Gb HDD.
SSD is a premium. No sound, less heat, faster boots, longer battery life.
In US dollars (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:They may be paying for portability (Score:2, Informative)
DVI-I instead (Score:5, Informative)
No, with DVI-I. While it's bulkier (and more sturdy), thanks to carrying the VGA signal as well it doesn't have HDMI's (sometimes show-stopping) disadvantage of being unable to drive the still most common projectors with analog inputs.
Re:Enough with the "I got ripped off!" whining (Score:3, Informative)
That's just pitiful. IMO, even 12" screens ought to be higher-res than that nowadays (mine is 1400x1050).
Re:Why are the prices for Linux machines higher? (Score:3, Informative)
With the 901 at least, the Linux model has 20GB of flash, while the WinXP model has 12GB.
Re:In US dollars (Score:3, Informative)
Newegg has the Eee PC 901 for $599
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=Eee+PC+901&x=0&y=0 [newegg.com]
No need to guess.
Re:erm, who actually wants one? (Score:2, Informative)
I recently took my OLPC on a trip to Japan, and it worked very well. I could read the New York Times on the browser, get my gmail, and ssh into my workstation to keep jobs going. And it was solid enough that I didn't worry about throwing it into my luggage. The downside is that it is a bit heavier than the eee.
duke out
Why are these things more than 200$? (Score:1, Informative)
We can get an Intel D945GCLF Little Falls Mainboard [logicsupply.com] with a built-in Atom 1.6 GHz for 80$, 512MB RAM for around 15$. An external brand-name keyboard [logitech.com] is only worth 15$, a 9" screen is probably only 50$ (if we go LVDS or whatever direct connections are called), a battery shouldn't be more than 20$ and we can buy 4GB CompactFlash cards for less than 20$.
Since these are all retail prices, my question is: where's the 200$ laptop?
Re:Enough with the "I got ripped off!" whining (Score:1, Informative)
Meh. My 19" monitor does 1600x1200 but i'm running it at 1280x1024 'cause I can't _READ_ anything at that resolution. Not to mention yours is a widescreen resolution roughly equivalent, anyway.
Re:Where's my $200 laptop (Score:3, Informative)
It's Linux only because it runs on a 400MHz non-x86 CPU.
7" display. 2GB storage. SD. WiFi. 3 USB2 ports. VGA out. 3hr battery. 625g.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/07/09/elonex_unveils_second_scc/
Re:Enough with the "I got ripped off!" whining (Score:4, Informative)
I do understand what you mean. I feel kind of the same way about iPhones: they're a cool toy, but 99% of the people who think they need one really don't. Still, that doesn't change the fact that some really do, and in the case of the Eee and other UMPCs, I'm finding that I'm in that 1%. I'm not going to trot out my resume to prove my geek cred, but suffice it to say that I know a bit about computing and that the Eee hits the sweet spot for me.
If nothing else, a tiny little SSH terminal that also supports apt-get is a sysadmin's dream come true. It's almost as portable (for me) as the series of Palms that I'd previously run through, has a much larger keyboard than any phone I've seen, and has a huge Free software library on tap. Those aren't big advantages for the general public, but dang, I like it.
I think there is a huge market for a device that sits somewhere between a fully functional (but small) laptop and a cell phone, but I guarantee that said device will boast the form factor of neither.
I'm not so sure. PDAs were neat, but generally too small to get serious work done. While I wouldn't want to use the Eee as my primary programming machine (and that's the main reason I mentioned for my once-a-month eMac usage), I've needed to use it that way for short periods. Maybe I'm just not creative enough, but I can't imagine something as generally useful fitting in a package too much smaller.