Eee PC for Me?
October 30, 2007
GigaOM guest Samuel Dean ponders the effect the ASUS Eee PCs will have on pricing for portable computers. At under $300, the low-end Eee PCs will be much cheaper than other Windows-based miniature computers.
Actually, the reference to “other Windows-based PCs” is misleading. The first Eees to ship in the USA will do so with Xandros, although Windows Eees (WindEees?) are also expected.
The appropriately-name gadget blog Crave reported on the Eee USA announcement a couple of weeks ago. The 2-pound, 7-inch, Linux-based laptop will be available in three configurations priced from $299 to $399.
The lowest-priced of the three, the 4G Surf, looks fine to me. With wireless, Firefox, and OpenOffice in less than a kilogram, I’d be good to go, maybe even better than I would with a Nokia Internet Tablet.
October 31, 2007 at 9:06 am
ebay, linux, and like you said open office are a good start, if not a better way to go than anything.
November 11, 2007 at 7:17 am
Your suggestion of a name for Windows EeePCs has particular resonance in the west of Scotland, where ‘windees’ is the local pronunciation of windows
November 11, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Thanks, Thunk and David, for taking the time to comment here. David, I wasn’t aware that my coinage was already currency in Scotland. By the way, I was born in Inverness…
November 23, 2007 at 10:21 pm
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March 7, 2008 at 11:39 am
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