Eventually, Asus could not keep hiking the price of Eee up like gasoline. This will effect Eee 900 series on both Linux and Windows XP model. Though Intel Atom version will not included. I guess it’s due to shortage supply as well. By the way, in practice, it doesn’t seem that Atom performs much better than Celeron, so I don’t think it will be an issue.
For the time being, Asus Eee PC 900 8.9″ 16GB, 20GB SSD 1GB RAM Linux will cost you around $400 and $450 (after $100 mail-in rebate for some stores) respectively while Windows XP version will be $50 extra. Oddly, there is no price cut on Eee 700 series which means Eee 701 4GB is about $399 and 702 model (8 GB) is still $499. It seems like no one would buy 700 model intentionally =) By the way, I still expect to see either another $100 off for 700 models or fading out of this series pretty soon. If you are interesting in the King of Netbook, this is such a nice time to grab one. Every popular online stores I know have this in stock.
Nonetheless, $100 off of Eee 900 is yet to tell if Asus will be able to retain the crown since $399 with 8.9″ Intel Celeron is almost the worst spec on paper. There are many arch rivals like Dell E, Acer Aspire One, and MSI Wind with this price tag and better spec. We will see how Asus is going to do with this.
Note: I just have a chance to see HP 2133 Mini-Note physically; it is such a toy!! I can believe that its keyboard looks really cheap–a lot cheaper than Eee PC, I must say.
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Day 1 (Fri, May 16, 2008): The box with foam inside that fit my machine was come including one instruction paper and information form on the back. Soon as I got that I filled out the form and call DHL to pick up (it took only an hour after I called them). It’s pretty quick and smooth process here. At this point, I got an email about the case (and a link to my case info page on ibm.com) and tracking number for the box. But, since I have already completed all things they wanted, I don’t care much. As so you know, it’s all DHL express overnight service for free, pretty good.
This might be a sub-notebook you are waiting for, so am I. But, could it be an Eee PC killer? I bet it is since it has HP logo on its lid–I’m not telling you that HP is better than Asus, you know what I mean–and it will sell through brick-and-mortar store everywhere, unlike Eee PC which is not that ubiquitous.
Recently I just had a chance to grab one of newest machine available on 
I will post more thought of Dell computer in the future though.
The problem is when you plugged the power jack, it randomly disconnected. You had to move the power adapter tip a bit to get it work properly again. Since I’m setting a brightness when plugged in and on battery differently, so I found this problem is really bothering me; it just keeps switching brightness back and forth any time I move my laptop. In my opinion, it is because the power adapter tip isn’t that smooth at the edge and when you plug it in, it does have some trigger (to avoid loosing power jack perhaps). That, however, it’s the bad part; the more you plug in and take out, the more power jack on the print circuit (and/or its mechanism) is loosing. I bet you won’t find this problem with Apple Magnetic power adapter and many other manufacturers.
This is almost the same spec as Macbook but whole lot thinner and lighter that Apple had never achieve in the notebook line before.Briefly specification:
But you may know, you are minority.
But the most impact model of Dell is XPS series, m1330 and m1530, they are just so appealing in a way Dell customers couldn’t ever imagine. Not only did Dell do this, others are on the way as well. HP gives you such a variety of very cool choice like this:-
