Eee PC Price No Lower Than $200

[HardOCP News]

Asustek’s President of Sales and Marketing says that the upcoming Eee PC will not be lower than $200. The company says it has already received contract orders of over one million units from countries in emerging markets.

Asustek, on June 5, unveiled its ultra low-cost notebook, the Eee PC, at Computex Taipei 2007. The company highlighted that the Eee PC will carry a suggested retail price of US$199 at that time. Eee PC will officially hit the Taiwan market on October 16 with the initial batch of shipments no larger than 10,000 units, said Asustek.

 

[Ockie]

Sounds like this PC will be better than the OLPC for only a few bucks more... now imagine the OLPC guys spend their R&D with asus, they could have pushed the price down tremendously... including the production costs with larger volume productions.

 

[pxc]

The company says it has already received contract orders of over one million units from countries in emerging markets.

I sense a Nicholas Negroponte fit coming up.

I guess $199 is the volume pricing then. There's no point to lowering the price since the XO "gadget" is only a few dollars less. Hopefully US retail prices on the lowest model is closer to $200 than $270 previously (and possibly inaccurately) posted on other sites.

 

[DanNeely]

I think the $200 v $270 comes down to which model you're looking at. The former for the one with the least ram and smallest SSD, the latter for ones with more reasonable capacities. The recent price rumors I saw recently had a $200-300 spread depending on specs.

 

[pxc]

I think the $200 v $270 comes down to which model you're looking at.

I remember where I saw the pricing now. It was on the NCIX preorder page. The range was ~$260 - $399, depending on the SSD size and a couple of included other things (512MB vs 256MB, camera, choice of color).