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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. Where's my $200 laptop by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They keep on bringing up the price and specs on these laptops. When they initially announced the EEE, they said it was going to be a $200 laptop. I still have yet to see one for $200, and with the way they keep on upping the specs, I don't think they will ever get to the $200 price point.

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    1. Re:Where's my $200 laptop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The value of the dollar has turned to shit since they said that.

    2. Re:Where's my $200 laptop by coolsnowmen · · Score: 5, Insightful

      the world does not revolve around the US dollar.

      Maybe not revolve, but if the world is certainly not independent of it. If the US went into a true depression, do you think europe, japan, china, and the middle east would be completely immune?

      If so you better quote-a-source or flash-an-econ-degree because everything I see has every major foreign market tied in multiple ways to the US's.

      Or did you really just want to claim that all Americans are pompous?

  2. 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.

  3. Enough with the "I got ripped off!" whining by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looks like those early Eee PC 900 adopters (£329 inc VAT, initially) have been stiffed. Still, that's progress, I guess.

    No. They got a nice working computer for a price they found reasonable. Something better will come out for less money next year, and again the year after that.

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    1. Re:Enough with the "I got ripped off!" whining by Corf · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I have a 701. It cost me $399, and I received it on November 2 of last year.

      For the last six months, since I static-zapped my desktop, it's been my only personal computer.

      I'm typing this on it right now, from a plaza in Silver Spring, Maryland. It's a gorgeous day, the fountains are running.

      I am super happy with it.

      I don't feel "stiffed," I feel like I got in on something awesome before it was trendy.

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    2. Re:Enough with the "I got ripped off!" whining by RulerOf · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I needed a new computer after using the one my parents bought me a decade ago. So I bought a laptop. I promptly put it on my desk, plugged in a mouse, and have never moved it since!

      It was an excellent purchasing decision on my part, seeing as how, for $2000, I got a monstrous 15 inch screen, a 2 GHz Dual Core processor, and 2 gigs of ram!

      Nothing more than that is really necessary, even though for $2000 I could be sitting in front of dual 24" monitors, a quad core chip, 4 GB of RAM and terabytes of storage. Or maybe something with similar specifications, in a desktop form factor, and a much heavier wallet.

      You have no idea how many times I hear the same idiotic story and the bullshit excuses that go along with it. I don't understand people justifying their moronic purchases by using the wrong tool for the wrong job, and I never will.

      Let me see if I can put it in perspective for you. If you owned a box truck and a subcompact smart car, and were faced with the task of moving a house full of furniture, using that EEE every day in a fixed location is like strapping a couch to the top of your smart car after lugging it past the open rear door of your box truck.

      Now, I have to ask, because maybe there's just "something" I don't get: What the fuck is that EEE doing on your desk, serving as your main computer, when a nonportable PC (like your Mac) is much more appropriate and functional? Is there ANY reason, other than "Zomg, It's so cute and portable," to pass up a much more functional, and frankly better in every way given the task, device for something so horribly inappropriate?

      To quote Chris Rock:

      You can drive a car with your feet if you want to; it don't mean its a good fucking idea!

      On a side note, my friend sold his laptop and bought the first EEE because he said the enhanced portability would allow him to use it better and more often that what he had currently, even though I told him it was a waste of money.

      Two months ago, he bought a 15-inch Compaq laptop that was on sale for the same price he got the EEE for. It's a much more appropriate machine.

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  4. The world is full of idiots. by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you buy electronics, the price WILL GO DOWN in the future. This is not being "stiffed." This is reality. Stop whining. The fact that internet whiners got lucky ONE TIME with the iPhone is a freak occurrence. Do not expect your whining to every pay off for any of the millions of other electronic devices sold every day.

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    1. Re:The world is full of idiots. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I also own a 701. And for me, it has been a wonderful gateway into the World of Linux.
      Just over a week ago I installed my *brand* new PC as Ubuntu. My old PC has now been turned into a 2.25TB RAID5 FreeNAS server. With the 701 as my little screen in the living-room, or for when I go away.

      10yrs I stuck with Windows. Through thick & thin. I remembered trying Linux in the late 90s, and commented on how it would be the future. I still have my 'old' PC inside a VM. But, it doesn't get much use now.

      All of the above is thanks to the 'eee'.

  5. 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.

    1. Re:Perfect by djikster · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Currently, the price of the 40Gb SSD exceeds the price of the laptop :)

  6. 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

  7. arms race. by apodyopsis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have always decided to stay out of the arms race attended by PC HW and SW firms.

    Most of my HW is quite old, 7+ years apart from my early adoption of an Asus EEE. was I stiffed on the price? hell no - had it over half a year and makes a good wifi web station.

    I understand the commercial reasons behind the rapid depreciation in HW and SW - but as far as I'm concerned my PC hardware is a tool, like my car. I'm upgrade only when there is a compelling reason or something breaks. Is the arms race a good or bad thing? well it promotes innovation and new technologies so I cannot really argue against it.

    As long as I can still run an up to date distro on my hardware I'm a happy camper. An old PC will let me write SW, surf and do office tasks as well as a new one, and be just as net safe if I keep to a regular upgrade cycle.

  8. 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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  9. In US dollars by metamechanical · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of us on the other side of the pond, that's about $529.66 and $687.18 respectively, using yesterday's exchange rate (i.e., the first one I found)

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  10. DVI-I instead by D4C5CE · · Score: 5, Informative

    Drop VGA output and replace with HDMI output

    No, with DVI-I. While it's bulkier (and more sturdy), thanks to carrying the VGA signal as well it doesn't have HDMI's (sometimes show-stopping) disadvantage of being unable to drive the still most common projectors with analog inputs.

  11. This is off topic, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate it when people put half of their post in the title! I start reading what they have to say, but then realize that their sentence fragment makes no sense whatsoever...oh, I have to read that bit up there too in order to piece together your post. brilliant.