Solid State Devices or SSD Drives are used to have the flash performance of SanDisk but at a competitive price, for customers who need high-capacity storage. According to the Eee PC News, the SSD are now being excluded from the “MyDigitalSSD” due to some reason. These devices are very much friendly with the new Eee PC 901, where you an easily replace your old SSD drives.

SanDisk Vaulter™ is expected to release its SSD drive of 8GB and 16GB by the September. Buffalo has been reported to be working on 32GB and 64GB PCI-E SSD. As per Engadget, the 32GB SSD Drive will be priced around 157 USD and the 64GB SSD Drive will be priced around 313 USD.

Ya, its also a matter to think when you are getting a computer at the price of a SSD Device. But still it is going to have advanced benefits for Eee PC users, who always need extra disk space.

Asustek Computer (Asus) sold out of the Eee Box in the big Computex show held in Taiwan, in a surprisingly low price, on Wednesday according to the PC World Business Center. Though trying several times, Typhoon Fung Wong failed keeping Asus Eee PC out of Taiwan.

Asus offered 1000 Eee Boxes to the consumers of Taiwan for a low price of NT$7,988 i.e. US$262. Asus offered the product through several retailers and an e-store of PChome Online. The Eee Box also came with 22-inch LCD monitor, for just NT$15,988. The Eee PC 901, offered at the stores by Asus, is based on Intel’s new Atom processor of 1.6GHz, with 8.9-inch screen. The Pc has 1GB of memory, a memory-card slot and an 80GB of Hard Disk Drive. The PC supports both Windows XP and Linux and was available in any one of them. The Eee PC 901 has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n for speedy wireless Internet, a 4-in-1 mini-storage card reader other than the standard pc features like Ethernet and USB ports. The Eee Box measures 233mm X 178mm X 16mm, without any stand, while weighs only 1 kg.

Davis Tsai, the general manager of Microsoft in Taiwan remarked it to be an economical and amazing price, when he was present in the launch ceremony. Asustek expects to ship 100,000 to 200,000 Eee Boxes by this year, says Jerry Shen, CEO of Asustek. With this Taiwan has become the second place in the world, where people are now enabled to buy Eee Box. The first one was Hong Kong, where Asus launched the sales of the mini-desktop Eee PC on July 15.

Though Asustek expects to avail most markets with Eee PC, other countries of the world have to wait until Asus fires up the production of the same. Asustek plans to heat up the markets with its Eee Pc by August, and by the end of September it should be available to you. Asia seems to be hit first now, followed by Europe and North America.

We may not know this little feature or should I say add on due to the slew of details and information that we have read coming from the Computex. Xcome Technology, a mobile solutions provider and Asustek have preloaded the Eee PC 901 and Eee PC 1000 series with the XLex Bilingual dictionary. The bilingual dictionary features the latest content from world-renowned dictionary publishers Longman and Berlitz, the dictionary covers English to English, English to Traditional Chinese and English to Simplified Chinese. It also contains 220,000 words and phrases for the Greater China market. For the European and Asian markets the dictionary offers English to German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean.

The said bilingual dictionary also features a clean design and intuitive user interface, with true-voice learning emphasized Text-to-Speech functionality, instant definition, and mini-mode.

Via [Xcome]

To augment the storage capacities of the Eee PC 901 (20GB SSD for Linux, 12GB  SSD for XP), Asustek will be giving Eee PC 901 buyers some 20GB of online storage to use.

“We think this is more flexible, we give the user remote storage on the Web and internal storage that’s shock proof,” says Asustek CEO Jerry Shen.

User data will be stored online on Asustek owned servers and will be managed by Chungwa Telecom. Details and other information about these online storage are not yet available though. Except for the fact that users can use this online storage for one year with no cost. Asustek did not mention too, whether what will happen after the one year free usage. If Asustek will charge users, the question is how much?

Although this may be a viable alternative for data storage needs, the uncertainty of those servers should still be considered, especially if you are planning to store valuable data in those servers. But if you’re just going to use it to store temporary not so important files, then it definitely is a good add-on for the Eee PC 901.

Via [Infoworld]