Asus Eee PC 900 Press Launch Highlights

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This morning, ASUS held a press launch for their latest ultraportable, the Eee PC 900. It is the newer version of the original 701 series, sporting wider screen and higher resolution. It also stands with higher disk capacity, 20GB and 12GB for Linux and Windows versions respectively. Both versions will have base SSD capacity of 4GB and the extra volumes are Flash Drives. Other advantages of the Eee PC 900 over the 701 are the FingerGlide touchpad, higher RAM capacity and the 1.3 MP camera.

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AsusTek, Microsoft, Intel Execs.

During an interview with Ethan Hung, one of the Execs, he announced that there will be several versions of Eee PC 900 coming up this year, including the multi-touchscreen version, longer-lasting battery version and the Intel Atom in June, which I believe will be quite expensive. [ Read ]

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Black Asus Eee PC 900. Rare.

Hung also said that while Microsoft

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7 Responses to “ Asus Eee PC 900 Press Launch Highlights ”

  1. Igor said:

    May 13, 08 at 1:22 pm

    Nice reporting, thank you!

    I can understand MS is trying to undermine the linux production on the low cost market, but their methods are wrong (I’m referring to the hardware limitations they are trying to impose for a license, if you look at them even the eee pc 900 will be not eligible when Asus starts to sell it with Atom processors).

    Works really can’t stand a chance against openoffice for productivity.

  2. Aldrin Cantos said:

    May 13, 08 at 11:52 pm

    @Igor, you have a good point. And notice the 8GB price for the XP license?

  3. Igor said:

    May 14, 08 at 5:18 am

    Yepp :)
    It is not so intelligent from them, because the persons willing to have xp on the eee pc to play games will just buy the linux version and install an xp license they have… or don’t have :)
    imho, the stock Linux does serve a basic use well. I showed the eee to older relatives that never used a computer before, no problems.

    Cheers

  4. Igor said:

    May 14, 08 at 5:21 am

    Oh, and I just remembered, MS changed the limitations on hardware for an xp live license, now the atom CPU is an exception, they will allow it…
    (sorry for flooding)

  5. A. Cantos said:

    May 15, 08 at 8:17 am

    Thanks for your comments. And oh, I don’t mind flodding :) . But hate spamming.

  6. Igor said:

    May 17, 08 at 7:35 pm

    You’re welcome!
    I have implemented a useful method on my blog to drive a majority of spammers out, feel free to drop me an email and I’ll send it to you.

    Best wishes

  7. rauy said:

    Jul 15, 08 at 2:15 pm

    MS is not helping the umpc’s imho. What Redmond is doing is just riding on the popularity wave of such as the Eee PC and does not contribute to the concept of umpc computing.
    True, they’ve slashed off some $ on XP Home but have not made tweaks like other Linux distros out there(Mandriva for instance) have made.
    Instead of having umpc’s get larger screens and consequently higher price, why don’t the folks at MS make their OS more tailored the modest hardwares of this type of devices? Perhaps resize dialogue boxes and stop that alert balloon bugging us that it the screen real estate on our Eees/MSI’s/Aspire Ones is not up to its tastes?
    well?

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