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- MikeCerm, on 03/05/2008, -1/+112It's official, the resolution is 1024 x 600 pixels!!! The only question that remains is how close they stay to the $399 price of the original. For $399, it's the perfect travel companion when you don't want to carry around the laptop you already have. If they go up to $599, as is rumored, they might have a tougher time. For that price, you can easily find a "normal" laptop, with a lot more power.
- cave, on 03/05/2008, -1/+72No, I'm a fan of it.
*ducks* - cranium, on 03/05/2008, -12/+48Sorry ASUS, but it's not worth $499. I can get a regular notebook for that with a larger screen and more features. It's not that I don't want one.
- pathy, on 03/05/2008, -1/+29The Eees are a LOT more portable than those laptops - That's the point of them. A cheap ultra-portable.
- cawpin, on 03/05/2008, -2/+20Actually, the difference is MORE when the capacity is that low.
- Linh, on 03/05/2008, -2/+20Great, now tell us what you upgraded inside already, and the pricing across the board.
- pathy, on 03/05/2008, -0/+18It's a failure by your standards. The battery is small to save weight - it's already the heaviest component on the laptop by far.
It's much more portable than any other laptop I've tried, and if battery life is a concern you can either carry around another battery - which is likewise small - or the charger, which is only slightly bigger than a Nokia charger. - dafragsta, on 03/05/2008, -2/+19I bet it fits in a standard manila envelope too! I also bet it doesn't cost $2K
- borez, on 03/05/2008, -2/+17I'm a dedicated Applehead, but at that price £200 English...I'm totally getting one of American mates to send me one just for knocking about town with.
- Linh, on 03/05/2008, -0/+15$599 is for the 12GB version. Asus has so many versions of the 7" version that no doubt there will be something close to 399, more likely a 499 starting price (gotta have some differential).
- se1zure, on 03/05/2008, -2/+17the difference is 4 gigs no matter what.
- Jayayess1190, on 03/05/2008, -1/+16Anybody know if it is fanless?
- thailand1972, on 03/05/2008, -0/+14So you consider the 8" difference to be "slightly longer"?
- Sornos, on 03/05/2008, -0/+13Way too predictable man. Effort for not using uuiU.
- invidious, on 03/05/2008, -1/+13ASUS, please release a $199 version of the Eee; they'll take off like a prom dress.
- exernet, on 03/05/2008, -2/+12I see a lot of comments comparing the Eee to other laptops in its price range rather than it's size/weight range. You guys are comparing cinder blocks to wood blocks. Yes you can buy a mediocre laptop for $500-$600, but can you hold it with one hand?
- pastubbs, on 03/05/2008, -2/+11At 599 you can get HP's hot new UMPC 2133
- adikt, on 03/05/2008, -0/+9When I bought my first 286 I remember thinking to myself, "What am I going to do with all that space on the 20 megabyte HD."
- barc0001, on 03/05/2008, -0/+8I've got one of the current 7" 4G units. If you haven't used one, I do not believe you can truly appreciate what the unit's compactness brings to the table. It fits in my *pocket* for crying out loud. Show me a $499 notebook with an 80GB hard drive that does that and I'll buy it. Most of the ones that size cost upwards of $2000. It's light, it's fast booting, and I can take it everywhere without even really noticing the weight. I just toss it in my messenger bag and it weighs less than a book.
- z0mbie2099, on 03/05/2008, -6/+14want, want!
- Cryoniq, on 03/05/2008, -5/+13ha ha.. Anyone else noticed that they keyboard's "windows" key also known as super key in Linux has a symbol of a small house used for some menu buttons under kde etc instead of the windows logo.. lol lol.. finaly!
I so want a eee pc.. :) - SeaBass22, on 03/05/2008, -3/+11I'd go w/an 8gb 9"er for $499. Difference b/w 8 and 12 gigs isn't really much when the capacity is that low.
- inactive, on 03/05/2008, -1/+8I want one, and this might be what it takes for me to finally buy it. Think i would put ubuntu on it, would be great for travel. I think i would just carry it with me everywhere i went.
- shazbotter, on 03/05/2008, -2/+9The resolution is already significantly better than on the 7" one. Anyways, I don't think many people would be using the EEE pc as a primary computer.
- Shootfast, on 03/05/2008, -3/+10Nah, there's heaps of EeePC fans on digg :D
- cdigioia, on 03/05/2008, -0/+7since your mom
- zeebo, on 03/05/2008, -1/+8Are there are any other hardware specs available besides the screen? It would be awesome if game companies would start paying attention to linux as a result of this. Might not be up for Team Fortress 2, but WoW might run, and older games are a near certainty. I wonder if Quake Live is going to have linux support.
- Kingoftherings, on 03/05/2008, -1/+8Looks like an awesome notebook. I really wouldn't mind having one of these for on-the-go computing.
- TBBucs, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6From the title, I was expecting organic pixels.
- invidious, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Are you thinking of the OLPC or the Classmate PC?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_Per_Child
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC - pathy, on 03/05/2008, -1/+7The Eee has a fan, although you can disable it without any problems.
- MeneerR, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Dude, i dont know why the trolls are voting you down.
What is wrong with paying for Windows when we are not using it:
- the statistics get skewed that makes my platform of choice less supported. That hurts ME.
- the money is spent on lobbying the politicians I wish would be DEAD.
- the money is spent on lawyers which I do no want to support.
- if itś cheapers to buy microsoft than to not buy it then kapitalism is officially gone in the IT industry.
- when I buy a windows computer to not use the liscence, i will be harder next time to get a computer without a windows liscense. I need to support the companies that support ME.
- when I buy a windows computer, I often loose my warrenty when I remove windows.
- when I buy a windows computer I have no garantuee the hardware will work.
Should we continue?
Dear ms-whoring-trolls. Please ***** off. You buy what you want to buy, we buy what we want to ***** buy. And you do not have the right to tell us this-should-be-a-good-deal-for-us. It is not. Period.
I wont pay for Windows no more. I havent used it in years. Im not saying it sucks. Im not saying Vista sucks. I havent even tried it. I just dont care. I dont like Microsoft, i like freedom. That works for me. Stop judging us. - se1zure, on 03/05/2008, -1/+7since i started masturbating.
ZING! - Tenoq, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Well thank you, Captain Obvious.
Do you think, perhaps, that if it were cheaper, more people would be willing to buy it also? :p - mdude85, on 03/05/2008, -2/+8This thing will be a deal killer for a lot of people if it goes a penny above $399.
- deMonkey, on 03/05/2008, -0/+6Yeah, a larger screen, more weight, more space required to store it, and a hard drive that's much more likely to fail from being transported: exactly the reasons people that buy an eeePC DON'T want a full notebook.
Here's my 7" next to a 15.4" budget Toshiba for comparison.
http://www.tweak3d.net/forums/imagehosting/347a028 ...
Sure the 15.4" has a dual core and an 80GB hard drive, but who the hell needs either for most mobile computing? It also weighs 4x as much. - se1zure, on 03/05/2008, -2/+8yes.
if you can't, see : http://www.goldsgym.com/ - chubbstar, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6frankly when i first saw the 7" eee i thought "resolution is too small otherwise i might get one"... but now that its just right i feel like 599 is way too expensive. id rather just throw down an extra 150 and get a way more powerful lappy.
- iofthestorm, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5Yeah, I'd like to see a Silverthorne or Diamondville, whichever one is the dual core variant, inside this thing. That would make it unbelievably awesome.
- akula89, on 03/05/2008, -1/+6no. go panhandle on the street you pathetic bum.
- iofthestorm, on 03/05/2008, -2/+7You're right, but he means with a low capacity who really cares about 4 gigs? You aren't getting one for the hard drive space anyway, and I'll probably get an SDHC for mine to boost the capacity a lot anyway.
- viciv, on 03/05/2008, -2/+7the more expensive, the less people're willing to buy it
- ubergeek09, on 03/05/2008, -0/+5Asus knows this. It's worth the money because it's TINY. it's very portable and that is it's purpose.
- gudnbluts, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4"a $499 notebook with 80gb drive + the usual stuff and either 12 or 14" screen isnt *THAT* much bigger."
Only someone who hasn't seen one in real life would say that. Your bottom range laptop is at least twice the size and three times the weight. - inactive, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4You complete idiot - thats a completely different product.
- goldfenix, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4As someone with an XO-1, allow me to assure people who see jeexbit's comment that the XO-1 is NOT a good replacement laptop for 99% of the population. The keys are too small for anybody older than 12 and it is impossible to do a number of rather useful laptop features. (Outputting to a monitor, printing, anything above basic document writing, etc)
Now, I love the XO-1, but EEE and XO-1 are very much competitors, they have radically different uses and really shouldn't be compared. - Linh, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4The EeePC was never suppose to be 199. That was the price of the parts for the OLPC. It got upped and upped.
This is the commercial rendition, which Asus has to profit on. - LinuxGalore, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4You can buy touchscreen EEE kits on ebay very cheap.
- inactive, on 03/05/2008, -2/+6Crying out for a touchscreen model.
- orph3us, on 03/05/2008, -0/+4maybe this one will be $299 in 6 months, i doubt 199, but the 7 incher probably will drop to that much
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