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Asus Confirms Specs, Price of Eee PC 904 and 1000

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-course-it's-in-pounds dept.

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 ..."

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  1. Stiffed? Wow. by Madball · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Perfect by InlawBiker · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Progress? Conspiracy! by jabuzz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that will have been 256KB of RAM, otherwise it would have cost a *LOT* more than $2500

  4. Re:Stiffed? Wow. by maxume · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quick, buy technology product before it goes up in price!

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  5. Re:Stiffed? Wow. by __aalruu9610 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  6. Re:How much do those MS Windows licences cost? by Toreo+asesino · · Score: 5, Funny

    You dropped this - http://www.instantrimshot.com/

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  7. Re:Stiffed? Wow. by mhall119 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  8. Re:Isn't it hypocrtical by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firstly: No, it's hypocritical.

    Secondly: I think he was being ironical.

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