First Eee PC 701 Shipments Will Be In September
August 20th, 2007 by antUS, Europe, China, and Taiwan will begin to receive the first shipments of the Eee PC 701 in September, according to an article in Digitimes. The first shipment will target 20,000 units and the article speculates that it will most likely be the $349 “mainstream” model. The lower priced $199 and $239 models will come in subsequent shipments.
[Thanks for the tip, Dean]
Note: This sounds very much in line with this post and this post on the forums…
August 20th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The german IT-portal heise.de also posts that shipments of Eees are likle to reach the market in september.
August 20th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Here’s a link to the page basti refers to: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94603
August 20th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
If they say “September,” I am sure this will translate to “late September at the earliest.” At least we might be getting some facts about the specs over the next few weeks.
August 20th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I would like to know if there will be any reorders. Especially from amazon or some reliable website. It too bad that we are only getting $369 version first, because I was hoping to get the $299 dollar instead. The prices are getting really close to a full out notebook prices that we will get on black Friday this year. So Eee better come out before that or it won’t sell at all.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:57 am
Originally the rumors were for a $199 machine with a small keyboard and screen… sweet. Now we have a machine that costs twice as much. At this price I’ll buy a cheap laptop with a bigger screen, regular keyboard, and lots more memory.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
All I want is 2gb EEE with 6 cell battery that can last up to 4 hours. I’d pay $250 for it and use my spare SD cards to get the storage up. I need EEE for school work (taking notes during lectures, or browsing on Wi-Fi if lecture is really boring). I might just stick to my PDA and get a damn bluetooth keyboard for it. This price stuff is really pissing me off, especially how Asus isn’t releasing any information on the units. And what happened to the 8 and 16 gig units that were in press release from Asus did they forget about it or something.
PS: The $369 unit better be 16gig + 6 cell battery and 3G support or I wont be buying it.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I’ll be very happy with a $369 version. I’m interested in the EEE because it’s small and light. I have a full size laptop that sits in my closet and is never used, because it’s too big and heavy (15″ screen, 7 pounds).
As someone who paid $3000 for a TRS-80 with 48K of RAM back in the day, I have to say I’m quite amused by people moaning about how incredibly high priced this unit is. Wasn’t too many years ago this would have been an incredibly fast screamer. Keep all the crudware off it and it’ll still perform quite well.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I like this pc in stead off regular laptops because of its weight, size and also the design. The white color is actually very pretty. I am a student and i want to pay up to 275-300 $. I don’t mind the small 2gb. I just like the small price for a (xp capable) laptop for experimental use.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Screw it. They lowered all the specs, jacked up the price and delayed until people started to not care anymore.
This will fail.
August 21st, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Obviously the marketing and administration people took all the online interest as a sign that they could jack up the price. Unfortunately the price point puts it out of the reach of the consumers ASUS claimed to be targeting, those not willing or able to invest in full featured laptops. The performance/price ratio basically decreased by 25%. Ideal would be: $200-250 for a 7″ inch screen, 4 gigs of memory and a 4-6 cell battery: would make this laptop very recommendable to the parents and children of low income families. No IT/School system would recommend anything less to their students. As it stands now the base model is a novelty item not unlike the “laptops” found at Toys”R”Us; wake up ASUS, don’t let the eee’s awesome possibility for change get flushed down the toilet.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:34 pm
U are right fotografiado!
I just looked through Sundays flyers and its really possible to buy a full out laptop 15.4″, CR-ROM, 512mb RAM, AMD X2 dual-core and on, and on and on. For only $399 after $150 mail-in. I just cant imagine what prices we’ll have during black Friday. It seems like we’ll have $150 dollar laptops :). Asus better bring the price down to $250 for 8Gb + 6cell battery or it just wont sell.
August 21st, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Well, it still stands a good chance I think of success - a lot of the mainstream buyers (and this is meant for a wide audience, hence the projected sales of 3-5 million by the end of 2008,) won’t know how much it’s been paired back and priced up. All they’ll care about is a computer that’s cheap, effective and very portable.
Besides, depending on what specs exist at those four price points, it could still be a pretty solid investment, especially if retailers aren’t locked into the MSRP. I mean, if the 239 version has a 4 cell / 2gb config, and it streets for about 200-220, that would probably do quite well.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:22 pm
I’m waiting for the 2gb because then i can just add some Sd cards and i’ll be all set! Hopefully it’s $199.
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