9” ASUS Eee PC Coming?

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The crew at the Eee Site claim that a new model of the ASUS Eee PC is on the way and it is bringing a 9” screen and 1GB of RAM with it.

It looks like the next generation Eee PC will sport a larger display, more RAM, and more storage space. No real big surprises there, but it's always nice to hear.
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Hmm, this is much better... a larger screen :)
 
Actually, I put WinXP on mine and it does pretty much everything I could do with a normal computer with less weight and a small screen.

But once you get over $500, it makes more sense to get a "real" laptop with a real HDD.
 
kirbyrj said:
Actually, I put WinXP on mine and it does pretty much everything I could do with a normal computer with less weight and a small screen.

But once you get over $500, it makes more sense to get a "real" laptop with a real HDD.
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yer. I picked this up cause it was £200 and it was nice and small (put archlinux on mine) and while bigger screen,storage,mem all nice it starts looking and behaving like a lower-spec lappy, something it wasn't ment for
 
Yeah I agree, it starts getting kinda expensive, I'd rather just buy a real laptop for the same price.
 
$600 or so for the 12gb one..

the 8gb will probably be cheaper..

plus, Europe pays out the ass for electronics, so that's another thing to put into consideration ...


either way, in for one when it's out.
 
tacosareveryyummy said:
I do like the larger screen. If it was sub $500 I would seriously consider it.
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+1. I was actually waiting to save up and buy an Eee. Now I'm glad I waited. I think I'm going to wait and see what the US pricing will be for this. I never put stock into what other places around the world are paying for the same things we get here because sometimes it turns out that we're paying less than what the conversion would suggest.
 
Well, the 8GB version of the current EEE goes for $499 USD, so I see a $599 minimum.

If it had one of the low voltage dual cores and a bigger battery, I'd be in for one at $599, but the one I have now (4G with 2GB memory upgrade and 16GB SDHC) works perfectly well.

I'd also like to see what resolution that new screen comes in at.
 
A bigger screen means nothing to me if the resolution is less than 1024 X 768.
 
kirbyrj said:
Well, the 8GB version of the current EEE goes for $499 USD, so I see a $599 minimum.

If it had one of the low voltage dual cores and a bigger battery, I'd be in for one at $599, but the one I have now (4G with 2GB memory upgrade and 16GB SDHC) works perfectly well.

I'd also like to see what resolution that new screen comes in at.
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Price drops!

They pay 299 pounds for the $299 Eee... so that estimate of 400 does not mean $600...
 
Blazestorm said:
Price drops!

They pay 299 pounds for the $299 Eee... so that estimate of 400 does not mean $600...
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I was referencing the $499 8GB current EEE.

Maybe when the newer one comes out you'll see a $499 8GB and a $599 12GB.
 
Hrm. When will it arrive and how much? I was just about to pull the trigger on a 4g.

1024*600 seems to be an appropriate resolution for the size of the screen.

Frankly, I could care less about more memory and a larger SSD (512mb is and 4gb are plenty for my needs) as long as both were made to be upgradable. (SDHC cards are cheap, and work well enough)
 
A 9" would be terrific, but like everybody else, the cost will probably kill it. It will still only ship with Linux and probably still only have that 900mhz CPU.
 
The HP is listed at 1366 x 768 which is usually reserved for HDTVs...

I'm hoping for atleast 1280 x 800 so I can play 1:1 HD rips... hopefully...
 
The EEE is ultra portable. However, in order for it to be successful, it can only be a little more expensive than a full laptop. On the one hand we get a very small/portable computer to easily take with us and do basic things. On the other hand, the hardware is very low end. Those two items tell me that I am not willing to pay much more than 450.00 US regardless of what goes in it. Storage is low, the screen is small, no optical, and it's tough to type fast on it (using an Eee 4G writing this).

Everyone will set their price. It is a novelty in a way, so a low price will ensure that people consider this over full laptops. Just yesterday I bought a Toshiba satellite at Best buy for 399.00 US. DVDrw, 1.8 ghz celeron, 1 gig memory. That is exactly the price I paid for my Eee.

I use mine mostly for testing the wireless I am deploying and for that it works great (had to load XP as 802.1x using peap/mschapV2 on Xandros did not work, even after fiddling with config files for a day).

Definitely a good secondary laptop/computer, but only if the price is kept reasonable.
 
Oh, and if you get the black one, the border around the screen is not an eye-sore since it is the same color as the rest of the laptop. What is it with the white device craze...
 
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