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mrsquirrel
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Expected soon: a 2-pound, $200 laptop
* Matthew Elliott
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Easy on the eyes, wallet: the Asus Eee PC 701
[img]http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20070816/Asus_Eee_701_270x202.jpg[/img
If the suspect $150 Swedish laptop I ordered last month fails to materialize, I'm putting those moneys toward another cheap Linux laptop, the Asus Eee PC 701. That's three E's, for easy to learn, easy to work, easy to play. If the Eee is easy to obtain, I'm game.
Take it for what it's worth, but according to a forum post on the Web site EeeUser.com, two Eee PC 701 models will make their way to the U.S. at the end of September priced at $269 and $369. Both models will feature a 7-inch display, 512MB of DDR2 memory, a four-cell battery, and a flash hard drive. The higher-end unit doubles the capacity of the solid state drive to 4GB, which previously was thought to be the smallest drive offered. You'll have your choice of a white or a black case, and you'll be able to upgrade to a larger 6-cell battery. Larger models with 8- or 9-inch screens are rumored to be in the works.
A third and cheaper $199 model (seen here with expected ship date of December 2007) with a smaller two-cell battery will be sold overseas. This site, AllAsus.com, is taking pre-orders but requires a $150 non-refundable deposit--a bit steep considering it's just $49 shy of the full price.
Other features gleaned from AllAsus.com for the Eee PC 701: built-in, low-res Webcam; 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; 10/100 Ethernet and 56K modem ports; and up to 16GB of flash storage. It estimates the 4-cell battery will run for 3 hours, and the dimensions are 8.9 inches wide by 6.5 deep while running between 0.8 and 1.4 inches thick and weighing slightly less than 2 pounds. While the Eee PC 701 will ship with a Linux OS, the system will be compatible with Windows XP should you want to install it yourself.
Perhaps our colleagues at the Crave UK site will get their hands on the $199 model soon; they spied news of the Eee PC last month and reported it will use an older 900MHz Pentium M CPU and ship with Open Office, Firefox and Skype. We hope our request for a review unit yields one of the two higher-end models that will be sold in the U.S.
Aside from the low price and solid state hard drive, what I find so appealing about the Eee PC is that its dimensions place it in the UMPC category but it serves up what looks to be a somewhat roomy keyboard that will make it ultimately more usable than a UMPC that forces you to use an onscreen keyboard or small thumb keyboard (while costing hundreds more). And while I'm not ready to make a Linux the operating system on my primary PC, I'm more than happy to run an alternate OS on a cheap, second system that will be used for nothing more than getting on the Internet.
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Expected soon: a 2-pound, $200 laptop
* Matthew Elliott
* 2 comments
Easy on the eyes, wallet: the Asus Eee PC 701
If the suspect $150 Swedish laptop I ordered last month fails to materialize, I'm putting those moneys toward another cheap Linux laptop, the Asus Eee PC 701. That's three E's, for easy to learn, easy to work, easy to play. If the Eee is easy to obtain, I'm game.
Take it for what it's worth, but according to a forum post on the Web site EeeUser.com, two Eee PC 701 models will make their way to the U.S. at the end of September priced at $269 and $369. Both models will feature a 7-inch display, 512MB of DDR2 memory, a four-cell battery, and a flash hard drive. The higher-end unit doubles the capacity of the solid state drive to 4GB, which previously was thought to be the smallest drive offered. You'll have your choice of a white or a black case, and you'll be able to upgrade to a larger 6-cell battery. Larger models with 8- or 9-inch screens are rumored to be in the works.
A third and cheaper $199 model (seen here with expected ship date of December 2007) with a smaller two-cell battery will be sold overseas. This site, AllAsus.com, is taking pre-orders but requires a $150 non-refundable deposit--a bit steep considering it's just $49 shy of the full price.
Other features gleaned from AllAsus.com for the Eee PC 701: built-in, low-res Webcam; 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; 10/100 Ethernet and 56K modem ports; and up to 16GB of flash storage. It estimates the 4-cell battery will run for 3 hours, and the dimensions are 8.9 inches wide by 6.5 deep while running between 0.8 and 1.4 inches thick and weighing slightly less than 2 pounds. While the Eee PC 701 will ship with a Linux OS, the system will be compatible with Windows XP should you want to install it yourself.
Perhaps our colleagues at the Crave UK site will get their hands on the $199 model soon; they spied news of the Eee PC last month and reported it will use an older 900MHz Pentium M CPU and ship with Open Office, Firefox and Skype. We hope our request for a review unit yields one of the two higher-end models that will be sold in the U.S.
Aside from the low price and solid state hard drive, what I find so appealing about the Eee PC is that its dimensions place it in the UMPC category but it serves up what looks to be a somewhat roomy keyboard that will make it ultimately more usable than a UMPC that forces you to use an onscreen keyboard or small thumb keyboard (while costing hundreds more). And while I'm not ready to make a Linux the operating system on my primary PC, I'm more than happy to run an alternate OS on a cheap, second system that will be used for nothing more than getting on the Internet. |
Looked the website even the $299 one is interesting but if they do release the $199 one I will be grabbing one of them. [img][/img] |
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rubric
Joined: 28 Oct 2006
Location: Pongdongfongyong
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Expected soon: a 2-pound, $200 laptop
* Matthew Elliott
* 2 comments
Easy on the eyes, wallet: the Asus Eee PC 701
[img]http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20070816/Asus_Eee_701_270x202.jpg[/img
If the suspect $150 Swedish laptop I ordered last month fails to materialize, I'm putting those moneys toward another cheap Linux laptop, the Asus Eee PC 701. That's three E's, for easy to learn, easy to work, easy to play. If the Eee is easy to obtain, I'm game.
Take it for what it's worth, but according to a forum post on the Web site EeeUser.com, two Eee PC 701 models will make their way to the U.S. at the end of September priced at $269 and $369. Both models will feature a 7-inch display, 512MB of DDR2 memory, a four-cell battery, and a flash hard drive. The higher-end unit doubles the capacity of the solid state drive to 4GB, which previously was thought to be the smallest drive offered. You'll have your choice of a white or a black case, and you'll be able to upgrade to a larger 6-cell battery. Larger models with 8- or 9-inch screens are rumored to be in the works.
A third and cheaper $199 model (seen here with expected ship date of December 2007) with a smaller two-cell battery will be sold overseas. This site, AllAsus.com, is taking pre-orders but requires a $150 non-refundable deposit--a bit steep considering it's just $49 shy of the full price.
Other features gleaned from AllAsus.com for the Eee PC 701: built-in, low-res Webcam; 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; 10/100 Ethernet and 56K modem ports; and up to 16GB of flash storage. It estimates the 4-cell battery will run for 3 hours, and the dimensions are 8.9 inches wide by 6.5 deep while running between 0.8 and 1.4 inches thick and weighing slightly less than 2 pounds. While the Eee PC 701 will ship with a Linux OS, the system will be compatible with Windows XP should you want to install it yourself.
Perhaps our colleagues at the Crave UK site will get their hands on the $199 model soon; they spied news of the Eee PC last month and reported it will use an older 900MHz Pentium M CPU and ship with Open Office, Firefox and Skype. We hope our request for a review unit yields one of the two higher-end models that will be sold in the U.S.
Aside from the low price and solid state hard drive, what I find so appealing about the Eee PC is that its dimensions place it in the UMPC category but it serves up what looks to be a somewhat roomy keyboard that will make it ultimately more usable than a UMPC that forces you to use an onscreen keyboard or small thumb keyboard (while costing hundreds more). And while I'm not ready to make a Linux the operating system on my primary PC, I'm more than happy to run an alternate OS on a cheap, second system that will be used for nothing more than getting on the Internet.
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Expected soon: a 2-pound, $200 laptop
* Matthew Elliott
* 2 comments
Easy on the eyes, wallet: the Asus Eee PC 701
If the suspect $150 Swedish laptop I ordered last month fails to materialize, I'm putting those moneys toward another cheap Linux laptop, the Asus Eee PC 701. That's three E's, for easy to learn, easy to work, easy to play. If the Eee is easy to obtain, I'm game.
Take it for what it's worth, but according to a forum post on the Web site EeeUser.com, two Eee PC 701 models will make their way to the U.S. at the end of September priced at $269 and $369. Both models will feature a 7-inch display, 512MB of DDR2 memory, a four-cell battery, and a flash hard drive. The higher-end unit doubles the capacity of the solid state drive to 4GB, which previously was thought to be the smallest drive offered. You'll have your choice of a white or a black case, and you'll be able to upgrade to a larger 6-cell battery. Larger models with 8- or 9-inch screens are rumored to be in the works.
A third and cheaper $199 model (seen here with expected ship date of December 2007) with a smaller two-cell battery will be sold overseas. This site, AllAsus.com, is taking pre-orders but requires a $150 non-refundable deposit--a bit steep considering it's just $49 shy of the full price.
Other features gleaned from AllAsus.com for the Eee PC 701: built-in, low-res Webcam; 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; 10/100 Ethernet and 56K modem ports; and up to 16GB of flash storage. It estimates the 4-cell battery will run for 3 hours, and the dimensions are 8.9 inches wide by 6.5 deep while running between 0.8 and 1.4 inches thick and weighing slightly less than 2 pounds. While the Eee PC 701 will ship with a Linux OS, the system will be compatible with Windows XP should you want to install it yourself.
Perhaps our colleagues at the Crave UK site will get their hands on the $199 model soon; they spied news of the Eee PC last month and reported it will use an older 900MHz Pentium M CPU and ship with Open Office, Firefox and Skype. We hope our request for a review unit yields one of the two higher-end models that will be sold in the U.S.
Aside from the low price and solid state hard drive, what I find so appealing about the Eee PC is that its dimensions place it in the UMPC category but it serves up what looks to be a somewhat roomy keyboard that will make it ultimately more usable than a UMPC that forces you to use an onscreen keyboard or small thumb keyboard (while costing hundreds more). And while I'm not ready to make a Linux the operating system on my primary PC, I'm more than happy to run an alternate OS on a cheap, second system that will be used for nothing more than getting on the Internet.
Looked the website even the $299 one is interesting but if they do release the $199 one I will be grabbing one of them.[img][/img] |
Did you just quote yourself?
Anyway, they look good. |
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RosieKnaack
Joined: 16 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject: I want one! |
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I think this is a really cool thing! I really like the idea of a tiny lightweight laptop, but the prices were a big deterrent. Do you know if documents created in Linux are compatible with MacOS X? I don't really know anything about Linux except that it's all open source DIY stuff....
does anyone have any idea when they'll be available in Korea? |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| I've been noticing ads for full fledged laptops for about $499. The biggest disincentive to carrying my laptop is its weight, and I got a pretty light Lifebook S series. I think for style hte "One laptop per child" laptop is better looking. I think they're going to make it available to us rich people. It might have a crap keyboard, however. |
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spliff
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:27 am Post subject: |
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Did you just quote yourself?
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mrsquirrel
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OneWayTraffic
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| There are a lot of UMPC type computers out there. I have a Raon Vega myself, though I didn't buy it exactly. There's always a trade off involved. Quite likely the screen resolution is 800x480 which isn't really good enough for the Internet these days and the storage limitation is huge. (Can you upgrade with SD cards/ or regular HDDs?) And yes, the keyboard will be likely a real chore compared to a full size one. Still at $300 who can complain? |
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kprrok
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Still at $300 who can complain? |
Let's see, the resolution isn't good enough for the internet, you say. Plus, you can't store much on the small hard drive, but you don't say how big it is.
My guess is also that the resolution wouldn't be too much fun for word processing or excel spreadsheets. Or for that matter, watching videos at a good size.
If you can't do any of these, why would you want the laptop? I'd definitely be complaining.
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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From photos it looks to be the size of a paper back but a lot thinner.
1.9lbs, possibly upgradeable ram, def takes memory cards,
If they do produce the 199 dollar one and it is upgradeable to 1gb or 2gb ram and flash drives it's a nice alternative to a media player or dictionary.
I've looked at some of the UMPC's and they are pricey and/or crap. Asus make one but it's over a 1000 dollars, Samsung's Q7 gets bad reviews, Nokias N770 is sold on auction korea for 300k+ Never even seen and N800 on there, they aren't even true pc's
so if it works out at under 300 dollars inc upgrades then it would make a fine ebook reader and web surfer for the table top |
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OneWayTraffic
Joined: 14 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| Still at $300 who can complain? |
Let's see, the resolution isn't good enough for the internet, you say. Plus, you can't store much on the small hard drive, but you don't say how big it is.
My guess is also that the resolution wouldn't be too much fun for word processing or excel spreadsheets. Or for that matter, watching videos at a good size.
If you can't do any of these, why would you want the laptop? I'd definitely be complaining.
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Well my Vega has the same 800*480 res and it's passable for Internet surfing, just not optimal. It's plenty for movies though, it's better resolution than any PMP and it's in the same size/weight package.
I checked the specs the SSDD is 4-16GB depending though the larger one will really up the price. YOu can expand with SD cards, and SSDD are a lot faster and more battery friendly than regular HDD.
As for doing serious work on them, it's a question of portability vs power. My Vega is pocketable and I use it for reading/reviewing lecture notes, and files I've been writing as well as veiw movies/mp3s and play games like Baldur's gate. It does these things just fine.
This PC is a step up in every way except it's bigger and heavier. Personally I'm certainly going to get another PC in the ultra small range since I spend hours on the subway every day, but I'll wait another generation or two first. |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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http://unicap-imaging.org/unicap_eeepc.htm
Update
For those too lazy to read - pictures
Upgradeable RAM and an extra mini-pci slot.
The nerds over on www.eeeuser.com are getting me all excited. Trying to figure out if the SSD (Solid State Disk) is fixed or removeable and replaceable with a 1.8in HDD.
I'm hooked on the idea of this machine now if it can be tinkered with.
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks a mite small. PDA or dictionary size. Too small I think for my uses. |
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mrsquirrel
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OneWayTraffic
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Looks a mite small. PDA or dictionary size. Too small I think for my uses. |
My portable PC is about the same size as a PSP and it's good for me. Baldur's gate on the subway, reading pdf files instead of printing them out(good for debating Junior), Planescape Torment, Internet (if I get a celluar modem), video viewing on the go.
It's all good. In my opinion in 5 years these things will be like mp3 players-you'll see them everywhere. The size is small enough so that you don't need to worry about the weight. I always chuck my second PC in my bag if I'm going out, though I spend a lot of time travelling. If you can get one at the right price give it a shot. There's a hell of a lot you can do with them if you like.
Don't throw out your laptop or desktop just yet though. It's a complementary device. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: |
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| OneWayTraffic wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Looks a mite small. PDA or dictionary size. Too small I think for my uses. |
My portable PC is about the same size as a PSP and it's good for me. Baldur's gate on the subway, reading pdf files instead of printing them out(good for debating Junior), Planescape Torment, Internet (if I get a celluar modem), video viewing on the go.
It's all good. In my opinion in 5 years these things will be like mp3 players-you'll see them everywhere. The size is small enough so that you don't need to worry about the weight. I always chuck my second PC in my bag if I'm going out, though I spend a lot of time travelling. If you can get one at the right price give it a shot. There's a hell of a lot you can do with them if you like.
Don't throw out your laptop or desktop just yet though. It's a complementary device. |
I still miss the Tandy 100.
http://www.pugo.org/media/collection/computer/trs80_100.jpg |
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