ASUS Eee PC Pricing Announced
Asus announced immediate availability of their long coveted Eee PC this afternoon. Eee PCs will hit the market in four different specs, the cheapest being the Eee PC 2G Surf ( 256MB DDR2 / 2GB SSD / 4400mAh battery), at approximately $245USD, while the Eee PC 4G Surf ( 512MB DDR2 / 4GB SSD / 4400mAh battery) goes for around $305USD. The two higher end models have increased battery capacity, with the Eee PC 4G ( 512MB DDR2 / 4GB SSD / 5200mAh battery) going for $340USD, and the top end Eee PC 8G ( 1GB DDR2 / 8GB SSD / 5200mAh ) coming in with a $424USD price tag. According to ASUS’ own estimates, the 4400mAh battery will give you about 2.8 hrs of usage, while the 5200mAh one should last around 3.5 hrs.
Either make the screen bigger so it takes up the whole lid instead of having that big border around it, or make the whole computer smaller. And give it a touch screen. Now that their release is very close to the OLPC selling Nov 12th, I would buy OLPC which not only benefits a child but also features a much better screen, WiFi range and most likely battery life.
[update 10/16/2007 1:00 PM CST] Hands on preview from Engadget China.
The SSD (essentially a CF card) is wielded to the motherboard, meaning that thumbdrives will currently be the only way to expand hard drive capacity. But the laptop has a card reader meaning that you can expend memory very cheap. A 2GB SD car sell for around 15 dollars and an 8GB one can be had for under 100 dollars. That will be more than enough for simply day to day software like MS office, FF, iTunes and others. The rest can be used to store some songs, one or two movies, documents and pictures.
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