Additional details of the new Eee PCs with larger screens have surfaced. It seems that Asus did one thing right and one thing wrong. First, what they did right:

The new larger screen Eee PCs will still have the same size case, according to Gizmodo. One of the Eee PCs main advantages is size. If the new Eee PC’s cases were significantly larger than they are now, that advantage would be lost to more mainstream laptops and larger UMPC. Unfortunately, Asus didn’t do everything right.

The new Eee PCs with larger screens will not have a higher resolution (again, according to Gizmodo.) That’s right, the resolution will not change, you will just get a blown-up picture of what you would get on a 7″ Eee PC. I can’t claim to know how much more it would cost to get a higher resolution screen, but it cannot be that much. Just making the picture larger will satisfy anyone who thought the text was too small, but I highly doubt just making the text bigger is going to satisfy the majority of users buying the Eee PC.

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