RSSAsus Eee drops $100 in price
By Tim Conneally | Published February 26, 2009, 1:45 PM
Asus ushered in the netbook craze with its Eee PC in 2007 by hitting a sweet spot in price, features, and aesthetic appeal. When all of those aspects are in harmony, and the timing is right, the overall value of the product soars. We could be seeing a jump in value right now.
The 8.9" solid state, Linux-driven, Eee PC 901is being sold with a $100 rebate from Asus until March 8. It is equipped with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 1GB of Ram, 20GB of solid state memory, a 6-cell battery that promises up to 6 hours of use, and the Xandros Linux operating system.
It's safe to say the Eee PC is the Toyota Camry of netbooks (but perhaps only when it's running Windows XP), and at $267.99, it is a good time for prospective buyers to snag theirs.
It may have been the first, but it is too radically underpowered and resource contrained to do much more than duplicate what a phone can do - sans the phone calls! LOL! As it lacks an ExpressCard54 slot as the HP, Lenovo, & MSI(?), etc. netbooks do. Not to mention their having more memory, etc.
Functional convergence is nice. But simply adding one more pricy limited functionality device to carry around and keep track of is like adding yet ANOTHER remote to the coffee table!
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|267.99 and only has 20gig flash disk !!!
if it is a camry, then it sounds like it has for an engine one of those two cylinder engines from an old vw beetle.
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|I prefer to think of it as trunk space!
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|eh many many many netbook users dont use their netbook for storage. all i need are 8GBs for XP and Office. all i want is at least 8GB SSD, but it has to be SSD. this really really appeals to me and a huge % of potential netbook buyers. $268 is really really cheap for a netbook these days. gone are the days of the $200 Eee PC or any other netbook. they usually start at $300 or $350 and go up to $600
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|Trunk space?
For $20 a flash drive has greater capacity.
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