Jonathan Tsang, president for sales and marketing at Asustek Computer, has revealed that the company will announce the price tag for its Eee PC on October 16. He also noted that prices for the product in the retail market will not be lower than US$200 with the price tag of US$199 only available for contract purchases. Asustek, on June 5, unveiled its ultra low-cost notebook, the Eee PC, at Computex Taipei 2007. The company highlighted that the Eee PC will carry a suggested retail price of US$199 at that time.
Eee PC will officially hit the Taiwan market on October 16 with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek. The company will begin offering the product through Best Buy and Newegg in the US by the end of this month, while availability in the China market may arrive by the end of the year, the company added.
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News source: DigiTimes
Eee PC will officially hit the Taiwan market on October 16 with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek. The company will begin offering the product through Best Buy and Newegg in the US by the end of this month, while availability in the China market may arrive by the end of the year, the company added.
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At the same time, they're functioning systems, but yea, as you put, very cheap. ^_^
These systems are great for this purpose. You have to admit, coding websites and reading PDFs does not even require a Sempron or Celeron chip and 2 GB of mem as is the min requirement for most OSes. I'm paying for way more than I need. And with the smaller manufacturing processes now, these systems are much smaller and same price as a refurb laptop from a few years ago.
Maybe not much of a demand. But I'm buying it.
Edit: BTW - NCIX.com is carrying it in the Canada. Since the Admin forgot about us ... its okay
Last edited by DrunkenMaster on 12 Oct 2007 - 16:45
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Here: http://event.asus.com/eeepc/en/701.htm
Specification
Model Eee PC 701
Display 7"
CPU & Chipset Intel Mobile CPU & chipset
Operating System Linux System/ Hardware Compatible with Windows XP
Communication 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
WLAN WiFi 802.11b/g
Memory 512MB, DDR2
Storage 4GB S.S.D. (Solid-State Disk)
Web-Cam 0.3 Mega Pixel Video camera
Audio Hi-Definition audio CODEC, Built-in stereo speaker, Built-in microphone
Battery Life 3 hrs (4 cells)
Dimension & Weight 22.5 x 16.4 x 2.15~3.5 cm, <1 kg
Interesting product. It might sell really well.
Doesn't anyone else see it as wrong how these big companies are trying to compete with an open-source project that's not interested in corporate greed? Why don't these guys just try and contribute to the already-existing project?
I think it makes a nice alternative for the 'Western' & SE Asian market. This thing has a bit more juice and features in it and it ain't neon green with a wind up cord on it. I'm not dissing the OLPC - its a fantastic idea - but I think underpowered for what I need (and probably 'Western' markets too).
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