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Originally Posted by Milhouse (Post 51550)

But honestly Karel, do you really get 7 hours solid usage from an N800? I'm lucky if I get 4 hours surfing Wikipedia which involves a lot of reading and occasional downloading over WiFi. There's no way I've ever gotten 7 hours *usage* from my N800.

I may have read that this Asus is using a Pentium M CPU which may explain why it doesn't have stellar battery life.

Agreed, with wireless on 3 hours is the top. But the specs of that ee-thing don't mention wireless.

And I get 6-7 hours with Fbreader...

I get around 7 hours regularly with brightness on half.

The EeePc does look interesting. I'd buy one for the lab. :)

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Originally Posted by mobiledivide (Post 51461)

The regular $1000+ UMPC looks to be soon fighting a losing battle to these budget based devices especially if they can be shown to run OS's like XP and Ubuntu.

Good riddance to the former, then, but I still don't buy it; this package looks too good to be released in the developed world at this price.

i can get around 6 or seven hours without wifi. i use this alot at work. all my work manuals come in pdf. i can maybe 2 days sometimes without recharging it.

Forget the $199 :mad:

Quote from the eee users website:

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NCIX Preorder Specs and Prices on Eee PC: ETA September

NCIX “Canada’s Premier Computer Store” has several models of the Eee PC 701 online for preorder with an ETA of “Late September 2007.” While I don’t usually post information about preorders, this is different because they seem to spell out solid specifications and pricing as follows:

* ASUS Eee PC700 Celeron M 7IN 800X480 WLAN 10/100 DDR2 256MB 2GB LAN Linux Notebook (Eee700/2G/256M) (25881) $257.38 or 284.99CAD
* ASUS Eee PC700 Celeron M 7IN 800X480 WLAN 10/100 DDR2 256MB 2GB LAN Linux Camera Notebook W/ Bag (Eee700/2G/256M/Camera) (25884) $285.10 or 329.99CAD
* ASUS Eee PC700 Celeron M 7IN 800X480 WLAN 10/100 DDR2 512MB 4GB LAN Linux Camera Notebook W/ Bag (Eee700/4G/512M/Camera) (25885) $388.05 or 439.99CAD

The question is: are these the final prices for the United States as well, or do they include some sort of Canadian import tax or upcharge?

I’m sure a lot of readers will be upset with the idea that the lowest model Eee PC 701- the $199 ultra-portable notebook- is really $257.38 with no camera, 256mb of ram, and 2GB of disk space.

I’m inclined to believe this is accurate as it includes the sku number (italicized). The deafening silence from Asus as well seems to support the price increase…

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Originally Posted by Toontje (Post 70312)

Forget the $199 :mad:

Quote from the eee users website:

And you're mad for what reason...this are still great prices for something like this!

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Originally Posted by bac522 (Post 70395)

And you're mad for what reason...this are still great prices for something like this!

True. It's still a nice price. And probably i will still buy it. But 285 and 199 is a 50% difference.

Anyway, i'm being cheap here.

BTW, Skype is preinstalled on this thing and it has a camera. But someone tells me that Skype for Linux will never support video. Is that true?

Ton.

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Originally Posted by Toontje (Post 70410)

BTW, Skype is preinstalled on this thing and it has a camera. But someone tells me that Skype for Linux will never support video. Is that true?

Never is a big word. As I understand it, they were considering video support for 1.4, but it was not prioritized (porting to Qt4 and supporting ALSA did). But I'd really be interested in their reasoning if video is not slated for inclusion in the next release after 1.4..

this eee pc definitely knocks my interest for the n800 way down.

it offers everything i want.