Asus Eee PC on sale at Best Buy in the States on April 9 for $399: E-book pros and cons
The 4G Win XP version of the Asus Eee PC will apparently go on sale April 9 at Best Buy in the States for $399. At all BB stores? Not sure.
Big pro from an e-book perspective: You can use the same gizmo to download and read your e-books and run Mobipocket and the others to read DRM-infested bestsellers—beyond which the Eee can do much more than the similarly priced Kindle.
Con: The res of the 7-inch screen is 800 x 480. Some folks might want to wait until a pricier model comes out with a bigger, better screen of 8.9 inches with 1024 x 600 res.
Meanwhile you can read a hands-on that from Laptop magazine, source of the above info, and watch Laptop’s related videos.
Related: Ubergizmo and Techmeme roundup. Also see Tiger ad for $299 linux version of the basic Eee.
March 31st, 2008 at 10:04 am
Windows XP is usually thought to add about $50 to the price of a laptop, but this appears to be the same price as similarly configured Linux Eee’s.
There are many choices for e-book reading software under Windows. Under Linux on Eee’s, FBReader runs natively but eReader and MS Reader have also been reported to work via wine.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
You can buy the 8GB version for 499.99 now at dynamism.com
http://www.dynamism.com/eee-pc/pricing.shtml
March 31st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Here’s a better description of teh dynamism.com offering.
http://www.dynamism.com/eee-pc/main.shtml