Monday, March 10th 2008
ASUS CEO Jerry Shen Talks About Eee PC 900
Laptop Magazine scored an hour-long interview with ASUS CEO Jerry Shen, and while most of the details they got out of him were already unveiled at CeBIT this week, they did manage to squeeze some new info about the future Eee PC 900:
Sources:
Laptop Magazine, Eee PC Blog
- The US pricing for the Eee PC 900 will be around $499 at launch, with plans to drop the price within a few months
- While initial reports have suggested that the Windows XP model will sport a 8GB of flash memory and the Linux version will have 12GB, Shen says the Linux model might have as much as 20GB of storage
- ASUS is looking into offering a hard drive option, but any units the company releases between now and June will have SSD only
- ASUS is not abandoning its custom Xandros operating system
- Units with built-in WiMax and HSDPA could be released in Q3 2008
- Future models could use Intel's Diamondville processor
- More color options are coming in a few months
5 Comments on ASUS CEO Jerry Shen Talks About Eee PC 900
To be honest, if they made one with better media capabilities (one of intels GPU's with DVD/blu ray decoding?) these things would be quite interesting.
Blu-Ray would kind of be a waste, the screen resolution is way to small for the high-def features to show up. It would be like watching a Blu-Ray movie on a standard-def TV.
I assume the lowered storage space on the XP model is to make up for the cost of putting XP on the laptop. Personally, I would just buy the 12GB model and stick one of my own copies of XP on it if I wanted XP.
It sounds to me like the XP model is nothing more than the 8G model currently available with XP on it and $100 added to the price, not really worth it IMO.
What is this Intel Diamondville processor?