Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Hand's On with the ASUS Eee PC
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 04:00 PM
"One of the biggest news stories out of this year’s Computex wasn't of a new chipset, GPU, or graphics card, but rather of the announcement of the ASUS Eee PC, a small, slim, and light portable computer that is priced at $199. Introduced by Jonney Shih, Chariman and CEO of ASUS at Intel’s keynote address the first day of the show, the Eee PC has already made headlines world wide. Not only have we had the chance to actually use the ASUS Eee PC, we can also confirm some important new specifications of the notebook. The Eee PC is running a version of Intel’s 910 mobile chipset, it uses a 900MHz Intel Dothan based Pentium M CPU, it has 512MB of DDR2 memory, full 802.11g wireless capability, and a flash-based hard drive. There will be at least two different models of the Eee PC, with the $199 version using a 4GB flash hard drive and the $299 version using a 8GB drive."
I was VERY excited when I first heard about this machine. But the little voice in the back of my head kept telling me to wait for the gotcha. Well, I'm relieved that there does not appear to be a gotcha. I'll be all over this as soon as I can order one. How about you?
I was VERY excited when I first heard about this machine. But the little voice in the back of my head kept telling me to wait for the gotcha. Well, I'm relieved that there does not appear to be a gotcha. I'll be all over this as soon as I can order one. How about you?
