Asus Eee PC 901 & 1000 Unveiled
Asus has officially unveiled its eagerly awaited Eee PC 901 and Eee PC 1000 models at Computex. It was Asustek’s Eee PC 701 that shocked the laptop market by becoming an instant hit – with its small form-factor and low cost immediately winning a legion of fans.
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Asus EEE PC701 - Review
The guys over at NotebookReview have managed to get their hand on Asus’s EEE PC701, Im not jealous honest.
Heres the Scoop.
‘The Asus EEE PC 701 notebook was officially announced at the beginning of June at Computex Taipei. Today I met with Asus to get a close-up look at this new device and talk more about the company’s goals with it. If Asus really can pull off selling this device for $250, it could be a very tempting companion PC for on the go.
First of all, here’s a quick look at the specs the Asus EEE offers:
* Display: 7″
* Processor: Intel mobile CPU (Intel 910 chipset, 900MHz Dothan Pentium M)
* Memory: 512MB RAM
* OS: Linux (Asus customized flavor)
* Storage: 8GB or 16GB flash hard drive
* Webcam: 300K pixel video camera
* Battery life: 3 hours using 4-cell battery
* Weight: 2lbs
* Dimensions: 8.9 in x 6.5 in x 0.82 in - 1.37 in (width x depth x thickness)
* Ports: 3 USB ports, 1 VGA out, SD card reader, modem, Ethernet, headphone out, microphone in.
The startup time for the EEE is about 10 seconds, and that’s when it’s being slow. Shutdown is performed with the simple one click of an “off” icon in the lower right hand of the screen (this “off” graphic is always present) and the total shutdown time is a whopping 5 seconds. We’ve all been ruined by slow hard drives and a bloated Windows OS I know, but I felt kind of giddy with glee seeing such fast startup and shutdown.
The Asus EEE uses a Linux based OS that Asus has customized themselves. Combine a small Linux footprint OS with a flash based hard drive and what results is this speedy startup that the device has. Just because the OS is light doesn’t mean it doesn’t do much. There’s a ton of software features on board that will most definitely serve all of your basic needs. You can browse the web using FireFox, use Skype with the built-in web cam and microphone, open Word and Excel docs and edit them, view photos, listen to music files, use AOL IM, MSN messenger or just about any other major chat client via Kopete. In other words, all the basic functions you perform on a PC you can do on the EEE PC.’
The Asus EEE was rumoured to be retailing about $199 (about £100), but it looks like it is going to be more like $250 (About £125) for the 8GB version, and a bit more for the 16GB version.
Asus are hoping to start selling this bargain laptop next month, I cant wait to get my hands on one, it seems like a perfect solution when you don’t want to carry a full sized laptop with you, and you can’t beat the price, I am sure the EEE PC is going to be a massive hit.
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Apple has updated its MacBook notebook range
Each model gets the faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 1GB of memory and bigger hard drives, with a 13-inch widescreen display.
There are 3 models to chose from, starting at £699.00 for the 2.0 GHz, white MacBook, with the 80GB hard drive, £829 for the 2.16GHz white MacBook with 120GB hard drive, and £949.00 for the 2.16GHZ black MacBook with a 160GB hard drive.
The new MacBook features built-in 802.11n wireless networking for up to 2.5 times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g, and measures just an inch thick and will run Mac OS X version 10.4.9.
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