Netbooks strike again. Every computer maker is getting ready for 2009. Are they going to make them cheaper besides upgrading the components? During the quarterly earnings call, Asustek said it plans to drop the price of its Eee PCs in 2009.

We might see entry level Eee PCs to sell for as low as $200 which is remarkable. Asus sold 1.7 million Eee Pcs during the last quarter and they plan to ship another 1.8 million during the next quarter. Asus will cancel smaller netbooks too, in favor of the 10 inch versions.

A $200, 10 inch Eee PC… Is that possible in 2009?

Asus has another Eee PC ready for you. It’s the 10 inch Eee PC 1002HA. There’s nothing really particular here to see folks, although the features of the 1002HA might make you see it as a regular notebook. The netbook will sport a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD and a two-cell 4200 mAh battery. The Eee PC 1002HA will be arriving in Europe for €449, or about $565.

We talk the talk today about Asus and its future plans. They were unveiled by Asus’s CEO Jerry Shen and we have it all for you.

The most important think is that Asus is going to skip Vista. They are going to transition to Windows 7 straight from XP. Asus hopes to sell about 5 million Eees by the end of the year, and they are just 1 million short. The all-in-one Eee will arrive soon too and so will the Eee Stick. The last one will get an under $100 price and it will be offered both bundled and alone.

Next year’s Eee PC will sell for about $250 in the first half of the year, while the touchscreen Eee PC with Windows 7 on will arrive in the second half. So bring it on Asus! We’re ready to talk about the new netbooks as soon as they will hit the market.

A lot of us have been looking forward to the new Asus Touchscreen Eee PC. Well, it seems like we won’t have to wait long. Reports are saying that the touchscreen Eee PC is due to arrive in the UK towards the end of November.

The new desktop, which is named ETP1602-WT-X0010, is Asus‘ biggest screen Eee PC yet. It has a 16:10-ratio and a 15.6in touch-sensitive panel. Behind the screen sit all the usual small, cheap components: 1.6GHz Atom CPU, Intel 945GSE integrated chipset and 1GB of 667MHz DDR memory. This model comes with a 160GB 3Gb/s SATA hard drive on which Windows XP is pre-installed.

The Eee has on-board 802.11n Wi-FI and Gigabit Ethernet. there are six USB ports - two on the side, four at the back - audio sockets and a multi-format memory card reader. Despite the touchscreen, the Eee comes with a mouse. A keyboard is bundled too.

It looks like the immediate future of netbooks will bring some new features for the tiny computers. We are to expect dual core Atom chips, 3G and WiMAX support and touchscreens.

Asus was rumored to introduce touchscreens in their Eee PCs since the beginning of the year. However we don’t have any Eee netbook sporting a touchscreen yet. Asus is reported to be working on the touchscreen Eee which will hit the market sometime in Q1 2009. Probably the CES 2009 will see the new netbook.

We’re waiting to see how everyone else will upgrade their current notebooks. But I have to say that a touchscreen notebook sounds a lot better than a regular one.

ASUS has conquered the netbook market with its ASUS Eee PC. This started a trend with other major companies manufacturing their own. To stay on top of the competition, ASUS has launched its new Eee PC S101 that is designed for fashion forward individuals who view style as as much of a factor of success as substance. The Eee PC S101 builds upon the industry-pioneering form factor, ergonomics and features of its predecessors but boasts a wholly reforged exterior in three gorgeous colors—Brown, Champagne or Graphite—accentuated with delightful details such as premium Infusion finishes and crystal-adorned hinges, a successful melding of fashion and functionality that easily situates it at the (more…)

Boy I am glad Asus didn’t roll did Asus launch another Eee netbook. They called it something else: the Eee PC S101. The S101 got leaked from the FCC which means it should be soon ready for an US release.

The S101 wasn’t supposed to carry the Eee branding but what’s in a name anyway? The 10.2 inch netbook will have a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, the 945GME chipset and an Air-like-thickness of 16 to 21 mm. Or that’s what we are expecting from it. Price was said to range between $699 to $899 depending on what SSD you ended up with. We’re waiting for the S101 to clear the FCC to see if features and prices will be confirmed.

Here’s finally a very good news coming from Asus related to their Eee PC line. It’s not another Eee product, but a new battery. And Asus is going to launch a whole day battery for the Eee PC. The current battery will get you about two and a half hours of life and such an upgrade will be more than welcome. Provided that the price won’t change this is probably the best upgrade they could offer.
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While you are waiting for the Asus Eee 901, 1000 and 1000H to hit the USA, Asus has announced they are going to launch the new Eee PC laptops which are the 904 and 905. What’s new you ask? Well, these two models will have an 8.9 inch LCD but the chassis and keyboard will be taken from the 10.2 inch models. So they finally realized the keyboard is too small to use successfully? Are we going to see 704 and 705 laptops too?
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Are you waiting for the Eee PC 901, 1000 or 1000H? Why would you when this beautiful world is populated with so many interesting and complete laptops? Why would you want to terrorize your fingers and your eyes on those mini laptops? Oops, I started this announcement all wrong.
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How many of you were expecting the MSI Wind to hit the market already? And from what we learned at Computex this year the Wind should have already arrived. Well it didn’t! Not yet! The release date has been postponed to June 27th. What’s one more week of waiting anyway?
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The MSI Wind U100 gets ready to meet the people. We’ve seen so many Eee wannabes so far, each having good and bad parts to add to this new mini laptop market.

From what people are mumbling over the MSI Wind it looks like Asus should fear the U100 release. First of all I must say the price looks really good. The Wind with Windows XP is going to retail for $499 which is a whole $100 cheaper than the Eee 901. And if you don’t remember why the Wind is not only cheaper but better, here’s why: it’s got 10 inch screen and a whooping 80GB hard drive.
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We aren’t even done covering all products spotted or released at Computex 2008 yet while Asus are ready to sell the Eee PC 1000H to the Taiwanese market.

The Eee PC 1000H can be found over at PCHome a shopping portal thing in Taiwan and here’s what it looks like:

• Size:226×191.2×28.5~38mm (WxDxH)
• Weight1.45kg
• 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor,
• 1GB or RAM,
• 80GB SATA hard drive,
• 10-inch display 1024×600,
• three USB 2.0 ports,
• 10/100Mbit Ethernet,
• 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth,
• SD card reader,
• 1.3Megapixel Webcam,
• Windows XP.
• weight1.45kg
• 6-cell 6,600mAH battery 3.6h.

The price? $625. Is it worth it? Not for me it isn’t.

via Fudzilla

ASUS has unveiled its all new Handwriting pad for Eee PC during Computex Taipei 2008. This USB tablet works on Linux system. It supports English, traditional and simplified Chinese languages. It has a 55*42 mm writing area. Interested to get one? Wait till it gets announced in the stores.

Via: Aving

Eee did it again. I mean Asus. I have a hard time naming them as it looks like the Eee is going solo with their whole new line of Eee products.

Like I said yesterday, the Eee seems to be appearing everywhere. Asus will Eee anything and it’s up to us, the buyers to allow it or not. Today we are looking at the Eee stick which is based on the Wii console. It was a matter of time until other big electronics manufacturers started to come up with different Wii versions. And we aren’t counting all the Chinese knock-offs of course!
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Is Asus turning the Eee into a cult? Sure I liked the Eee 701 idea which was rapidly adapted by every laptop carrier out there. I liked the Eee 900 and I like the 1000 even better. I would make my own additions to any of these but they are still fine Asus creations.

Shouldn’t they stop while they are ahead? What’s all this Eee frenzy out there? The Eee Box is there, the Eee TV coming and the Eee Monitor. When’s the Eee Mouse going to arrive? I’d imagine this being a one button 2 inch mouse worth little over $159.
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To Beers or Three Beers, this is the question! No, wait, I got it wrong, it must be the weekend.

To Buy or Not to Buy the Eee? This is the question of the week, day, minute. And I am not talking about the Eee in general as a concept but by the upcoming, Atom processor powered Eee PC. It’s rumored that anytime next week Asus will release the Eee PC containing an Atom processor. But the price rizes up to $650.
Here’s an idea, let’s throw in a DVD combo, let’s widen the screen to 13-15 inch and let’s give it an Atom processor and a 80GB HDD. We’ll conveniently call it Eee PC 1301-1501 and sell it for a little over $700. What do you guys think?

I guess we will know more about the Atom Eee next week.

Ok, so I have gone through this video. No surprises there. We have a possible contender to Asus Eee 900 or the HP 2133 Mini-Note. We have some specs but not everything we would like to know. We have VIA but we don’t have a manufacturer.

Basically if you want to build your own cheap laptop, all you have to do is get buy a processor and motherboard from VIA and then get all the info and schematics they have released freely in order to assemble your first laptop.

I wonder if there’s any company that will pick up on VIA’s lead to manufacture this Eee wannabe to a larger scale. Time will tell. For now I go with the Asus versions.

What do you think?

Despite Asus Eee’s ever growing popularity I have always felt unconvinced by the concept. It’s a cheap and highly portable device, I’ll give you that, but it needs some more work done here and there. (more…)

We have gone through (already) the Eee PC 700 and the Eee 900. Eee lines are going to be created for desktops and monitors. Asus isn’t fooling around, are they?

The new Eee PC 901 is the new 900 version. It’s still an 8.9 inch cheap laptop which will be released on June 3rd and sold for less than $650. The new Asus will have an Atom Intel chipset (cool, right?),

Bluetooth, and some metal parts added to the keyboard, hinge and to the border of the touchpad. Furthermore, Linux operated 901 will have more applications added to them.

One more important change is the brand name. Asus puts their fate in the Eee and its future so the 901 will feature an Eee logo instead of the Asusteck logo.

What do you think? I’d still go for the HP 2133 Mini-Note but thats just me!