Amazon now have the premium EEE PC, the S101 in stock.

For $699.99 you get the following:

• ASUS Super Hybrid Engine and polymer battery pack allow for longer battery lifespan of up to 5.5 hours. Super Hybrid Engine offers a choice of performance and power consumption modes for easy adjustments according to various needs
• High Speed Connectivity Anywhere with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n. Eee Connect for an easy way to connect two or more users through a remote desktop feature for easy troubleshooting.
• ASUS Exclusive 30GB Eee Storage with easy accessibility anywhere online
• Solid State Drive that endures strong shock, extreme temperatures and consumes less power.
• Extremely artistic thin design with UV High Gloss Graphite cover
• 10.2-inch wide active matrix LED backlit TFT, WSVGA screen
• Intel Atom N270 processor
• 1GB Memory
• 16GB SSD
• 0.3MP web camera
• Multi-touch Touchpad
• 2450 mAh battery
• Weight - 1kg
• Dimension - 264 mm x 180.5 mm x 18-25 mm
• 4-in-1 card reader
• WLAN, Ethernet LAN
• Windows XP Home

If you are feeling rich, make an order at Amazon.com

Finally, those who are eagerly waiting for the US release of the Asus Eee PC S101 premium netbook now only have less than two weeks to wait. According to Engadget, the Eee PC S101 will start arriving US stores on November 1. Ok, now Eee PC fans. Take a deep breath as this premium Eee PC certainly won’t come in cheap - it’s SRP is at a whooping $699.

We live it up to you to decide whether the Eee PC S101 with the following features is worthy of such a high price. Here’s a complete rundown of the Eee PC S101’s features for your guidance:

• 10.2-inch wide active matrix LED backlit TFT, WSVGA screen
• Intel Atom N270 processor
• 1GB Memory
• 16GB/32GB/32GB SSDs
• 0.3MP web camera
• multi-touch Touchpad
• 2450 mAh battery
• Weight - 1kg
• Dimension - 264 mm x 180.5 mm x 18-25 mm
• 4-in-1 card reader
• WLAN, Ethernet LAN
• Windows XP or Linux OS

The Eee PC S101 will be available in Brown, Graphite or Champagne color design.

Asus is prepping up the worldwide launch of its premiere Eee PC product, S101. The Eee PC S101 now has its own product page, and a very classy product page at that. The Eee PC S101 product site has video materials about the S101, photo gallery, product information and of course the S101’s product specs.

Notable feature of the product site is the interactive product launch schedule of the Eee PC S101.

Quiet honestly, the official product page for the S101 is pretty impressive and we got to give it to Asustek for coming up with such a nice and professionally looking product site. Hopefully, this product site would help propel the sales of the Eee PC S101.

Via Electric Vagabond

Asustek’s prime netbook model, the Eee PC S101 has been announced for a couple of weeks now but Asus kept us guessing as to how much they are going to sell it. Until now, well at least for our friends in the UK the Eee PC S101 will be available for around $782.

I know it’s a bit pricey for a netbook. In fact it’s way too hefty from the very pricey HP Mini-Note, but as published the S101 is in between the line of a netbook and an entry level regular notebook anyway.

But it still up to you whether you’d want a $782 netbook featuring:

• a 64GB SSD
• 2GB of RAM
• and a 10.2-inch screen
• plus other pretty standard netbook features

Or you may want for a couple of months until Asus decides to lower its price, especially since Asus is well known to introduce netbooks at high prices only to put it down in a couple of weeks or months.

Via StuffTV

Asustek might have sense the positive feedback that its recently launched Eee PC S101 that the company is optimistic that it can ship around 50,000 units of the said netbook this month alone. If the company reach this target, it will definitely boost Asustek’s revenues to around 35 million. This we learned from a Digitimes report.

In addition Asustek is also confident that sales of the S101 will increase some more as soon as it is launch in both Europe and Japan sometime during this month. The projected sales of the S101 will add up to Asustek’s goal of shipping 700,000 Eee PCs this month, as reported a couple of days ago.

The Eee PC S101 launched by Asustek a couple of days ago comes with 16GB SSD and later this month, a 16GB and 32GB will also be launched.

Now, this may be a good news for some netbook fans who are getting tired of Asustek’s never ending netbook releases. According to the report, Asustek has no plans of producing Eee PCs with 11-inch panels. And we are glad to learn about this news.

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So, Asus decided to stick to the Eee PC branding for its newest netbook release, the Eee PC S101. The Eee PC S101 will be available in three color design - Brown, Champagne or Graphite. It’s hinges are adorned with crystal, it sports a premium infusion finish, making the Eee PC S101 geared for the style conscious users.

The Eee PC S101 will be available in 3 versions; a 16GB SSD model with Windows XP. It will also comes pack with an additional 16GB SD card. This model will retail for around $699. The second version comes with a 32 GB SSD with Linux OS and will retail for around $699 as well. And lastly, the 64GB SSD model with Linux which will have a price tag of around $799.

Feature-wise the Eee PC S101 carries almost the same features as the other 10-inch Eee PC models. Except for the 20GB online storage that comes with every unit. Interestingly, the S101 only comes with the .3MP web camera. We’re wondering how come Asus didn’t put the 1.3MP web camera instead, if it aims to market this netbook as a higher model than all the rest of the Eee PC family?

Anyway, here is our usual rundown of specs:

• 10.2-inch wide active matrix LED backlit TFT, WSVGA 1024×600 in 252k colors
• Intel Atom CPU
• 10/1000 Mbps Fast Ethernet controller
• WLAN, Bluetooth
• 1GB RAM
• 3 USB ports, 1 VGA port, 1 RJ-45, 2 audio jacks
• 4-in-1 MMC, SD, Memory Stick and MS-PRO flash card slot
• Multi-touch touchpad
• Built-in speakers
• Polymer battery; 36 W/hr; 2S2P (2450 mAh/cell)
• 1kg

Via Hardware Zone

Crave have managed to get their hands on a selection of exclusive photographs of the ever-so swanky Eee PC ‘Ultimate’ S101 and the pictures are intriguing.

Asus made the change with this new model, from the ‘usual’ Eee design of plain plastic exterior, to a sleek, brown (yes, brown, not the first colour that comes to mind when I think of a netbook but, brown it is), shiny netbook with an Atom CPU, 2gb of RAM and either a 32gb or 64 gb solid state drive. This new Eee PC will be pre-installed with Windows XP and seems to come with a 10.2 LED screen, although this isn’t confirmed. The cost of the new Eee PC is unconfirmed too but, it has been rumoured that a 32GB model will be roughly $699 and a 64GB model will set you back a not so cheap $899.

A lot have been said about Asus next generation of ultraportable called the S101. Words on the streets say that finally, Asus is graduating from the Eee PC branding and is now ready to introduce a new set of portable notebooks which are more powerful than the Eee PC. Such is the case of the Asus S101.

Again, words on the streets say that said S101 notebook has already reached the FCC, which of course means that it would just be a matter of time before we see it hitting store shelves in the U.S. Interestingly though, as Engadget has noted, the FCC documents still show that the Asus N10 is still using the Eee PC branding. How come?

Either the Asus people were just too tired to create another FCC document and they just copied an old document an replaced it with SPECS of the N10 but forgot to replace some traces of the “Eee PC”, or the S101 might after all still carry the Eee PC branding. If the latter is true, are we looking at the Eee PC S101? or the Eee PC 1000-S101?

Taiwanese CNET division is reporting that Asus is working on special high-end Eee PC version with 64GB SSD, the S101. Asus S101 will sport an Atom processor, 10.2 inch LCD display and will be just 16 - 25 mm thick. The base configuration with 64GB SSD will cost $899 dollars and there will be 32GB SSD version that will cost $699. The official launch is scheduled for September.