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Asustek Eee PC goes on sale in Taiwan

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 17 October 2007 - 12:19 · 9 comments & 8591 views

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Asustek Computer's low-cost Eee PC notebook has gone on sale in Taiwan with pricing at online retailers at around NT$11,655 (US$35. This is much higher than the price of US$199 Asustek originally promoted for the portable PC, but this was to be as expected as Asustek recently admitted that the lower price would only be available for bulk purchases of a model with lower specifications, and which is intended for emerging markets.

The model now on sale in Taiwan features a 7-inch LCD display, 4GB solid state storage, 512MB DDR2 RAM and runs on an Intel mobile processor. Weight is given as 920g. The devices also features three USB 2.0 ports, Wi-Fi b/g connectivity, a VGA output, two audio jacks, Secure Digital (SD) card reader (which according to earlier reports also supports SDHC cards), webcam, speakers, and LAN and modem ports. Battery life is listed as 3.5 hours.

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News source: DigiTimes

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#1 Electronic Punk on 17 Oct 2007 - 12:32
Might wanna disable smileys :p
#2 gtho on 17 Oct 2007 - 12:44
^ haha, I thought it was intentional
#3 Digix on 17 Oct 2007 - 13:41
$35 ftw haha

i'll be picking one of these up round xmas, selling for $599 NZD here in nz so quite good

celeron
4GB flash space
512 ram
300kpxl webcam and the rest for that price, just awesome.
#4 dogmatix on 17 Oct 2007 - 17:42
For that kind of money I will stick to the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.

When Oh when will we see a decent deal on laptop technology?

#5 Albert on 18 Oct 2007 - 02:39
personally, this is a freaking shameless & inferior imitation of the real deal at http://www.laptop.org
#6 Joseph21 on 18 Oct 2007 - 04:32
the OLPC looks like something jobs designed before making all look like the ipod
#7 nonick on 18 Oct 2007 - 11:07
(1 reply) #8 jazzyfan on 18 Oct 2007 - 22:23
$35 for that laptop- that's a steal.

Knowing my luck, it's a typo.
#8.1 XP1 on 19 Oct 2007 - 20:55
Quote - (jazzyfan said @ #
$35 for that laptop- that's a steal.

Knowing my luck, it's a typo.
Maybe, according to Google:
11,655 Taiwan dollars = 357.43554 U.S. dollars

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