Sony Says Eee PC Signals "Race To the Bottom"

Alex Dekker writes "Sony's Mike Abary says in an interview, 'If [Asus's Eee PC] starts to do well, we are all in trouble.' Presumably by 'we' he means all the hardware manufacturers who sell over-priced, full-fat laptops. And he's not going to be too pleased when he sees the Linux-powered, sub-$200 Elonex One. Looks like what's bad for Sony may be good for the consumer." The CNet article mentions that a version of the Eee running XP is available in Japan now and will be coming to the US within weeks.

Comments

Re:About dang time...

[pizpot]

May I recommend an Acer 5920? Mine from The Source was 730 after price protection, and came just busting at the seams... 512M Geforce8600, 250G 5400rpm, 3G RAM, DVDRW, vidcam, mics, speakers with bass, 1280x800 15.4" wide, VGA/SVGA/HDMI out, 4 USB ports, sound out, wireless. Acer supplies vista and xp drivers. XP works nice. Ubuntu works nice. Doom3 games great in xp and linux. I am currently Dooming in linux (not wine) 800x600 HighQuality 4 x AA at 70 fps. Warcraft3 in wine with video cranked is very very smooth.

I hear Asus is good too but I don't see them in stores.

Re:About dang time...

[pizpot]

(acer specs cont...)

Acer Aspire 5920: 1.6G Core2Duo.

Dislike: glossy top, keyboard layout (all laptops), no vista install cds (called MS, Acer, Source)

Like: light grey inside color, speed, compatibility, using it

Re:When do we get these affordable laptops?

[MichaelSmith]

The eeePC is only in a "laptop" form factor because it's what's familiar and is what was useful for what Asustek intended for the device.

I am very happy with my eeePC. Last night I installed a build toolchain using this howto.

At work I connect it to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse and it occured to me that Asus could probably sell a version without screen, keyboard and touchpad for a third the price.