Asus Preps Up $200 Netbook for 2009 Release

November 27, 2008 7 Comments

There has been rumors before of Asustek’s plan to release a $200 netbook. However, Asustek has been pretty secretive about it, neither confirming nor denying about its plan, until now. PC World is reporting that an Asus representative said that their company is set to launch an Eee PC netbook in the first quarter of 2009, and that said netbook would only $200.

If you would recall, Asustek’s Eee PC Surf first came out in Taipei with an SRP of around $241. Since then, the price of the Eee PC as well as its specs and features surged on forward instead of going backward. But with the increasing SRPs of its netbooks going up against the worsening monetary glitch worldwide, it is but natural for Asustek to think of coming up with the said netbook. For reasons of maintaining its stronghold in the netbook market.

The question that remains now is how Asustek would be able to come up with a netbook priced as low as $200 without undermining the netbook’s specs and features? Specifically, would it still have the Atom CPU? or would it go back to the Celeron CPUs which was used by its Eee PC 700?

Unfortunately, the Asus representation would not say anything about the specs of the said $200 netbook. So we will just have to wait.

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  • Richard Trocino

    I recently purchased one of those Linux-based mini laptops from Best Buy. After returning the first one, because it wouldn’t re-boot, and obtaining a second one, I have come to the conclusion that the eee PC notebook computer is the worst computer product I have ever purchased. I do not recommend it to anybody.

    It sounds good in theory, a really small machine that gives you internet access and a real computer keyboard and reasonably sized display. The idea of using Linux was cool too–no more MicroSoft. But the ill-conceived implementation of Linux made the machine completely inoperable.

    The problem lies primarily with the micro-penis sized 4Gig hard drive. This should be enough space to browse the internet, right? Except for the fact that the auto-update utility immediately fills up the hard drive. So just by turning on the machine and connecting to the internet, available disk space goes right to zero. All four wheels pop off the go-cart.

    And to make matters worse, the add/remove program utility, only allows you to add programs. So here is a machine with the hard drive filled to capacity right out of the box…and the only maintenance function supported is to add new software.

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  • http://ipaditalia.vox.com/ Hilaria Woline

    informative post


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