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Asus Confirms Specs, Price of Eee PC 904 and 1000
Ken E. writes "Asus seems to have completed its Eee PC laptop line-up, at least for the time being. The Taiwanese manufacturer has now confirmed both specifications and UK pricing of the Eee PC 904 and Eee PC 1000 — its two latest models. The Eee PC 904 is essentially an Eee PC 900 in an Eee PC 1000 chassis (big keyboard, 8.9in screen, Celeron-M 900MHz, Windows XP) and will cost £269 inc VAT. The Eee PC 1000 will cost £349 inc VAT for an Intel Atom (1.6GHz) chip, 10in screen, 80Gb HDD and Windows XP. Looks like those early Eee PC 900 adopters (£329 inc VAT, initially) have been stiffed. Still, that's progress, I guess ..."
Looks like those early Eee PC 900 adopters (£329 inc VAT, initially) have been stiffed.
An early adopter "stiffed"? A technology buyer getting more stuff for less money if they just wait? No way!
Next, you'll claim that man has gone to the moon, or that Linux >> Windows, or Bush is disliked. You so craaazy.
Every possible combination of screen size, chip, storage and memory have been packaged and named almost identically. Asus' plan to thoroughly confuse customers is complete.
The CEO saw the margins that these computers would make and said 'eeeeeeeeeeee'!
Looks like those early Eee PC 900 adopters (£329 inc VAT, initially) have been stiffed. Still, that's progress, I guess...
I know, right?
Like that first IBM PC clone I owned... Can you believe I (or rather, my parents) paid almost $2500 for a crappy ol' 8086 CPU with 256MB of RAM???
Bastards, just stickin' it to those of us who can't hold out for the $0.99 Walmart special on Quantum computers with a petabyte of memory and a sub-etha WLAN adapter! I say we sue!
I think that will have been 256KB of RAM, otherwise it would have cost a *LOT* more than $2500
Surely, as we see the trend of Eee PC prices going down with each new model, this will happen most definitely. We can be sure that Asus will release a cheaper and not-so-beefed-up model for the folks that are waiting for the $200 model.
Quick, buy technology product before it goes up in price!
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
So wait...I realize your last comment was sarcastic. At least I know Bush is disliked... If I take a bitwise right shift of Linux, I'll end up with Windows? Holy crap...makes me want to try a left bit shift...
$0?
(rimshot) that's about what they're worth! (/rimshot)
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Liar! I'm in Silver Spring, too. And it's overcast with occasional drizzle.
It's actually saying to take Linux, and shift it "windows" bit places to the left. I have no idea what that gets you.
Well, it's shifting the bits to the right rather than left. If we assume that the Linux OS disk image is a single unsigned integer of magnitude around 8^(5e8), then shift that number right by a similarly sized Windows integer, then we always get a final result of zero. (Which would make the original statement False.)
Ok, so it's a bit bogus. Be that as it may,
P = -342.27273 + 72.72727*Screen_Size - 0.45000*HDD_Capacity - 0.5000*SDD_Capacity + 4.00000*OS
where:
P = price (in £ with VAT)
Screen_Size is measured in inches
HDD_Capacity is in GB
SDD_Capacity is in GB
OS = 1 for Linux, 0 for XP
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Well, it's shifting the bits to the right rather than left.
Oops, my mistake.
If we assume that the Linux OS disk image is a single unsigned integer of magnitude around 8^(5e8), then shift that number right by a similarly sized Windows integer, then we always get a final result of zero. (Which would make the original statement False.)
I don't understand why we're not getting modded 'Funny' like the GP.
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Quick, buy technology product before it goes up in price!
I'm glad I did, just try finding a 368SX16 nowadays, or a Tseng ET1000 even. My grandchildren will be glad I acted when the market was just starting.
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Firstly: No, it's hypocritical.
Secondly: I think he was being ironical.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."