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An Eee PC With a Slick Design, 20GB SSD, and 8 Hour Batter Life

Laptop Mag recently posted an interview with Asus’s CEO about the Eee PC. Although they already did a list of the interesting parts they found, I found that they missed a few interesting points, so here is my list of the interesting points from the interview they posted:

  • According to Asus, if battery supply problems were fixed, they could sell 300,000 to 400,000 Eee PCs each month!
  • As pointed out by many other places, the Eee PC with Linux will have a 12GB to 20GB SSD, while the XP version will only have 8GB. (I have no clue why.) Additionally, the XP version will have 1GB of RAM, but no mention was made of the RAM size for the Linux version.
  • Hard drives (not flash) could be available in May or sometime later.
  • $500 will be the US pricing on this new model. (No distinction was made between Linux and XP. Could they be equal price, but the Linux version would have more storage space?)
  • Fashion will become a big part of the Eee PC.
  • Sometime in May, Asus may introduce web storage as part of the Eee PC (to supplement the local storage, presumably.)
  • New Eee PCs will have much shorter charging time and, possibly around May, Asus is aiming to get 8 hours of battery life out of the Eee PC.

This looks like a sneak peak into the coming months and it certainly looks like some very cool features will be coming to the Eee PC. I would hold off until June or July before buying an Eee PC, if I were planning on getting one, based on what was said in this interview.

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  1. steve Says:
    April 12th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    I would rather see the new Eee PC have an 8 GB SSD and reduce the cost, as this is where the price point and value are.

    As an owner of the current Eee PC version, I am limited by the 4GB SSD. However 8GB would be more then enough space for GPS maps and photos etc. I don’t use it as a primary computing device.

    The proposed configuration does not help me, if I where to upgrade. And I suspect most other linux users would agree.

    I think Asus needs to flip the space requirements the other way as windows is more resource hungry and would benefit more than linux with a SSD greater then 8GB.

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