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2007-08-17
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Edit:
I did some looking around and the EEE is for sale in Belgium. At a price range from € 346 to € 472 ($463-632) for the 701 and a vast € 551 ($738) for the 1001 version. That's quite a big difference from the initial $199-$239.
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2007-08-17
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Wait a minute... Those are prices for 8, 16 and 32 GB versions. They don't even appear on Asus' current spec sheets anymore. Where did they get those models?
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2007-08-17
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2007-08-17
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2007-08-17
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2007-08-17
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2007-08-17
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So... pre-order and no shipping. And on top of that he lists a model (the ten-incher) that Asus hasn't even released (yet?).
I don't know about you, but I'd sooner place an order for that Medison USD 150 laptop than doing "business" with that guy.
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2007-08-17
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2007-08-17
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The Sony holds 5 cds, and the B&O holds 6, but the Sony costs around $115, and the B&O costs closer to $5000. Yes the B&O is probably better, and I'd rather have the B&O than the Sony, but do you see my point? More along the lines of the UMPC though, I think the OS DEFINITELY sways the market. If you went out on the street and asked a bunch of random people if they have ever used linux, I garuntee most of them would either say no, or ask you what linux is. If you asked them about windows XP you'd probably get a much more positive response, or at least more people would know what you were talking about. Also from an application perspective, the XP UMPC can run a ton more applications right out of the box. A huge number of those applications are proprietary though. ITT's run an open source OS and open source applications. I don't know of any application for an ITT that costs money. Also I might as well interject that the ITT OS is NOT a desktop operating system, like the operating systems UMPC's are designed to run. UMPC's are just that, Ultra Mobile 'PCs', presenting you with the environment you'd expect to find on any other PC. An internet tablet is and internet tablet, it is a tablet that you can use to access and browse the internet, it promises something entierly different, and more limited in scope.