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Asus confirms Eee PC 904 and Eee PC 1000 specs and prices
More observant types may have spotted the Eee PC 904 among the myriad of netbooks in our last Asus article . Asus has now officially confirmed the existence of this new netbook – and confirmed both its price, and that of its other new models.
The Eee PC 904 is essentially an Eee PC 900 in an Eee PC 1000’s body and it’s aimed at people who want a low-cost laptop with a large(ish) keyboard. It uses the Intel Celeron-M 900MHz processor rather than the Atom chip of the 901 and 1000, but it also has an 80Gb hard disk rather than an SSD. You can see the full specification and price breakdown after the cut.
At £269 inc Vat, the Eee PC 904 also considerably cheaper than the short-lived Eee PC 900. which means some early adopters will no doubt be kicking themselves.
Asus has also confirmed the final pricing of the Eee PC 901 – both Linux and Windows XP models will cost £299 inc VAT, rather than the £319 we initially predicted.
Finally, the Eee PC 1000 – the 10in-screen netbook with a larger keyboard – will cost £369 for the 40Gb SSD model and £349 for the 80Gb HDD. Both prices include VAT. We now have an Eee PC 10000 in the office, so we’ll be posting a video review that compares it with the MSI Wind U100 shortly.
Incidentally, the Eee PC 905 that was rumoured to exist has been officially confirmed by Asus... as an unfounded rumour.
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Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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WTF? Why do they offer different hardware for the linux and XP models? Fine, with the linux version of the 901 they are charging the same as the XP version, at least you get a 20GB vs 12GB SSD. But why not make both an HDD and SSD version of the 1000?
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Asus figured out they can make addition revenue by having MS pay them to include XP??? I thought XP was no longer available as of last week anyway.
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There's a couple things to remember: solid state hard drives are actually nicer. They are faster, use less battery, and more reliable (especially for a laptop that might be jostled). And also remember that Linux uses less hard drive space.So rather then making the Linux versions cheaper, they give them better specs.
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Windows Vista wouldn't work on this computer. So Microsoft had a choice: loose this market entirely to Linux, or continue to support Windows XP for these devices.
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Why do these prices seem to exploit Linux users? What's the benefit of having a more SSD drive with less space just to save a few hours of battery life< Just offer a range of hardware options and let the customer choose the OS they prefer.
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i dont know why HDD space is such an issue. I figured these were supposed to be neat little internet notebooks. Dont really need alot of space to surf the web.SSD are expensive right now too so thats why the Linux books seems like a snub but really isnt. Couldn't you just grab the XP one and wipe it?
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Recent tests shows, that SSD consumes more power, than a regular HDD.
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will someone please explain to me this price the writers are talking about for the Eee pc 901? £299=$470 ?everywhere i looked,the price for it was $600 like they said for the last 2 months.where is the price $470? in taiwan?
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A study was just released recently (you can find it at tom's hardware guide) that says apparently it was kind of a scam to say they use less battery power, when some of the time they actually used more. They are faster and a bit more reliable, but they don't use less battery power. Its usually about the same or more power.
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That was one of the more blatantly flawed analyses I've ever seen. Scan through the comments section and there's several lengthy critiques of both methodology and reasoning.
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The reason for the different hardware between MS & Linux versions is due to a licensing restriction preventing MS going on devices above a certain HDD capacity. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
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I must be missing something. I paid £285 inclusive of delivery and VAT for my 17" 1920x1200(bloody superb screen!) Dell laptop, with 120gb/1gb/2ghz Celeron mobile, by the time I had my £65 Windows refund.Why would anyone be considering spending this much on the Eee?I understand it is more portable, and it's part of the whole "one laptop per child" idea of things, but it is so far off the $100 mark that it's just not funny.
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You now have a Eee PC 10000 in the office?! That's like hemorrhagic cutting-edge, huh?
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Tom's hardware's test of batterylife with HDD vs. SDD was seriously flawed, they ran both drive full out for the duration, which nobody ever does with a laptop. @. if you look at the amount of virtual work units they made the SDD completed more before the battery died then the HDD model, the reason was that the laptop was able to run at maximum capacity with the much faster SDD using its cpu and ram to their fullest.
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Exchange rates and the UK usually gets shafted with higher prices.
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Because it's light, small and portable. It is sufficient reason for lot of people to get UMPC device. You may understand that when you start to travel with your 1920x1200 dell brick much more.
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I'd go for the extra battery life in a heartbeat, I've already got a high end quadcore, 8Gb ram comp with 4Tb of storage at home, I don't need a ton of storage space on the go, I just need battery, with the added advantage of speed.If you need a little more space do the mods http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades and add 1 or 2 internal SD card readers and some high capacity high speed SD cards, I intend to mount 2 of them in the EEE 901 and use the built in flash as a common partition for a dual boot Ubuntu MID and Mac OS X 10.5.
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In the 1000 case the Windows version has 80 GB HDD and te Linux version has 40 GB SSD.
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The OLPC is an other thing, EEE PC doesn't have much to do with it.
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Where are they getting 125.5 mm as the width of the 901? That is about 45 mm less than anyone else says it is.
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Yeah, have you not heard? Asus is making new 100" screen model. Unfortunately it will be a bit over 150 kg in weight, but, hey, who are we to judge, when we get 70 MP from UMPC screen :)
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What is the difference between the "comfort" keyboard and the "compact" keyboard?
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[quote=Cark]Because it's light, small and portable. It is sufficient reason for lot of people to get UMPC device. You may understand that when you start to travel with your 1920x1200 dell brick much more.[/quote] More like an UMSC (Ultra Mobile Super Computer). Its Speculated that the EEEPC 10000 will have a 100" SED Display, 10 Petabytes of SSD on a 64 way IBM Blue Gene palatform connected via Infiniband. Its expected to sell for £240,000,000
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Editor - Julian ProkazaComfort: big; compact: small.
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One reason for the difference in linux/xp features is simply that xp adds cost, linux does not.
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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SSD AND HDD?
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SSD Solid State Disk (memory chips organised to act like a drive) HDD Hard Disk Drive (the old winchester drive we all know n luv)hope that clears the confusion..
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Can't get onto http://beta.iva ncover.com/wiki /index.php/Eee_ PC_Internal_Upgrades - is this correct ?
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Duh ! extra spaces taken out and it works
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Are asus going to sell eee pc 1000H in the other colours in the uk ?
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