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Asus To Ship 60 Percent Of Eee PCs With Windows XP
News Asus has said that around 60 percent of its Eee PCs shipped this year will come with Windows XP pre-installed, according to reports. On Thursday, Reuters quoted Asus chairman Jonney Shih as saying: "About 60 percent of [Eee PCs] will have the...
[March 13, 2008, 11:02]
Windows 7 Heads To Netbooks As Well As PCs
News Among the machines Microsoft put on show was an Eee PC with a 1GB hard drive and a 16GB solid-state drive. 'Choice' was the watchword in the Windows 7 discussion on Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, as Microsoft aimed to...
[November 6, 2008, 14:55]
ASUS Eee PC 1000 review
Reviews It's the easiest to use on a daily basis of all the Eee PCs and its assorted rivals. In the past, we've always recommended buying the Linux version of Eee PCs, since they've had more storage space. But in the case of the Eee PC 1000, we'd say the...
[July 17, 2008, 10:59]
Asus And Microsoft Unveil Eee Upgrade
News Asus claims it will sell between three and five million Eee PCs this year, with between two and 2.5 milion of those sales in Europe. At the same event, Asus announceed a partnership with T-Mobile Germany, which will see the operator distribute Eee...
[March 4, 2008, 17:28]
Intel Classmate PC review
Reviews We found the diminutive keyboard to be similar to the one on the Asus Eee, with the letter keys slightly narrower but deeper. Unlike the Eee, there's no webcam or speakers next to the display (small, tinny speakers sit right above the keyboard).
[November 2, 2007, 10:03]
Can Linux Forget Desktops And Servers?
Blog There's the Asus Eee PC, and an expected rush of other devices, joining the few that have seeded that segment, like the Nokia N800 tablet. On a £300 laptop it's a major part of the cost, and on a £200 Eee-style system, it's out of the question.
[November 26, 2007, 14:48]
HTC Shift review
Reviews Given that mini-notebooks such as the ASUS Eee can be obtained for around a third of that price, the Shift raises a number of questions. However, since then a new class of inexpensive mini-notebooks like the ASUS Eee PC and the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC...
[May 29, 2008, 16:23]
Not Much Of A Competitor
Talkback The Eee on the other hand costs just £219 and is even better looking! the whole appeal of these mini PCs is price, they were supposed to appeal to budget users. HP's offering, if you include VAT, works out £350, what's the appeal when you can get a...
[April 8, 2008, 17:51]
Asus Desktop Eee Due In August — With XP
News Like the latest Eee PCs, the Eee Box will use Intel's 1.6GHz Atom chipset. Asus has announced the final specifications for the first Eee Box desktop version of its popular Eee PC subnotebook — and it will include Windows XP, which has now been...
[June 20, 2008, 13:36]
Asustek Plans Eee PC Price Drop For 2009
News Seventy percent of its Eee PCs are also shipped with Windows XP, and 30 percent with Linux. During its quarterly earnings call with investors, Asustek said it plans to drop the price of its already inexpensive line of Eee PCs even further next year.
[November 3, 2008, 10:04]
Asus Releases Eee PC Software-development Kit
News Asus has said it expects to ship as many as five million Eee PCs during 2008. The move comes not long after Asus and Microsoft announced that the upcoming Eee 900 model would come with Windows as an option, rather than Xandros Linux.
[March 27, 2008, 9:45]
Asus Eee To Get Intel's Atom Processor
News However, there remains some confusion as to exactly when the new Eee PCs will go on sale in the UK. Shen said that Atom-bearing Eee PCs would be "hitting the market" in May, which appears to be the first indication yet as to when Intel's new...
[March 10, 2008, 16:27]
XP Is Dead; Long Live XP
News Asus's Linux-toting Eee PC, launched in 2007, was a surprise hit and opened up a whole new market for tiny, cheap, low-powered subnotebooks. In April, Dell announced it was to continue offering XP on some of its PCs, in response to thousands of...
[June 30, 2008, 13:53]
Intel Classmate PC (9in.) review
Reviews We'd be happy to use one as a secondary or travel computer, although a Windows-powered Eee PC might be even more attractive. The rugged design makes it about 500g heavier than the Eee PC, but it also feels significantly sturdier.
[April 4, 2008, 13:26]
Fully Equipped: The Mobile Professional review
Reviews ASUS Eee PC 701 The Asus Eee PC 701 is a great notebook. What you select will vary according to what you do: if you require no-compromise productivity on the road, for example, you'll need a well-featured 'thin-and-light' notebook; as portability...
[November 26, 2007, 12:44]
Surveys Show Vista Struggling One Year On
News Three launches back this up, said Moody: "The Asus Eee PC looks likely to spawn a new category of ultra-small, ultra-cheap, mobile PCs. Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 percent of companies say they expect to...
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
ASUS Eee Box review
Reviews For a low price, the Eee Box will provide you with a tiny, basic Windows XP-based computer for web browsing, word processing and other general computing activities. The idea of the Eee Box is similar to Asus's successful Eee PCmini-notebook.
[August 4, 2008, 12:08]
BECTA - The Track Record
Blog Now, RM is a name that no Linux company would choose for itself, and the company's main business is in Windows PCs tailored for education, but it does have the Asus Eee on its books, as well as Linux drivers for a lot of its peripherals, anbd.that...
[June 16, 2008, 11:10]
Where's The Evidence?
Talkback Put simply, what is the compelling reason to pay ~$200 extra for an Eee with Windows XP? A Windows Eee won't come with any useful applications and you'll have to buy anti-virus software to boot. The comment from the JP Morgan analyst is...
[March 13, 2008, 12:04]
A Little Arm-twisting Perhaps?
Talkback Seems Microsoft are none too happy at the *runaway* success of the Linux-based Eee. They even added someone from JP Morgan to make an assertion completely belied by the success of the Eee that nobody wants it with Linux.
[March 13, 2008, 12:01]
