Official Asus Eee PC Webpage Updated and Eee PC 801
October 2nd, 2007 by antRemember the Eee PC flash slideshow on the official Asus Eee PC website that’s been the same since way back in June? It finally changed- and a full new website is up! Check it out here. It still looks like a work in progress, but maybe it’s proof that we really are approaching a release date. There are three languages that you can view the site in- English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese- maybe a sign of the first locations the Eee PC will be released to.
Also, from other website updates, looks like there may be an Eee PC 801 model (thanks Yesh!)- possibly with an 8″ higher resolution screen!
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:24 am
“large flash-based storage capacity” WTF? 2/4/8/16 GB is large? There is no mention about price, and says that it’s eee because “Easy to learn, work, play; Excellent Internet experience and Excellent mobile computing experience”
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 am
I am definately content with 4gb, but I would obviously like a 8 or 16 gb
Go team eee.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:15 am
Lame!
(Oh, and “Serivice”. Teehee!)
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:28 am
I agree. It is incredibly lame what they have done with the website. I own a small business and a website and I would never dream of launching a product in such amateurish fashion with obvious mistakes like “Serivice”. Your website should be a showcase of the product and encourage consumer confidence. This does the opposite. And yet I am still waiting to buy…. I must be pretty gullible.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:06 am
Um… Work in progress, guys? What is so hard to understand about that?
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:46 am
I got tired of waiting for this (seemingly endless) work-in-progress to be finished a month ago and have purchased another UMPC. Maybe I’ll get an EEE PC *next* Christmas, but this year is out.
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:22 am
Maybe 801 model is just a mistake, like “serivice” or “Specificatioin” in the front page
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:31 am
Glad to finally see something up, but there are a lot of typos!
This makes me think the power adapter may be different from the pictures we’ve seen:
“Please make sure both the wires between the adapter to the wall and to the Eee PC are well plugged in”
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:25 am
I don’t know how much experience you guys have with this company, but when I called yesterday and THEY said (not citrusmicro or allasus) that release is at the end of OCT, I learned something else. Did anyone know that it was pronounced ‘Uhsoos’ Holy crap. How do I impress people with an ‘uhsoos’ umpc?
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:53 am
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October 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
Shouldn’t it already be well known that Oct.11 will be the date?
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 am
Just a correction. The languages offered on their website are English, Traditional Chinese (used in Taiwan) and Simplified Chinese (used in China). There is no Korean.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:57 am
>>Did anyone know that it was pronounced ‘Uhsoos’ Holy crap. How do I impress people with an ‘uhsoos’ umpc?<<
That is like Americans pronouncing IKEA as “eye-key-uh”. Even IKEA now uses that corrupted name in the USA to satisfy the market here.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 am
“Wolfwood wrote:
Um… Work in progress, guys? What is so hard to understand about that?”
Wolfwood, a work in progress should not be hosted on a site that can be viewed by the public. It should be stored and edited on a local system until it is production quality.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I don’t know why it isn’t written here but the authors of this german eee-community already have invitations from Asus fot the EEE-Release at 06/11/07:
http://www.eee-pc.de/2007/10/02/hot-eee-launch-steht-bevor/#more-84
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Dude: What? 6/11/07? Sounds obsolete to me. That was a week after the first show.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:54 pm
dude and Revert- it’s funny, when I first looked at the date I assumed June 11… but I’m sure they mean November 6… crazy date stamps!
But seriously, I haven’t been invited to anything by ASUS… I guess they like the Germans more than this American!
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:12 pm
In germany I am pretty sure they do it day/month/year
I could be wrong though, I just wikipedia’d it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:33 pm
6th November is correct.But a press conference doesnt necessarily mean you can order it. I havent come across any german webshop so far, which has listed the EEEPc. Maybe it is actually earlier available in the US.
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I feel retarded- I didn’t even think about the stamp difference. Sorry, “Dude”. Anyway, where did Zhiyu get his date. Oct 11?
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Forzan wrote:
“Wolfwood, a work in progress should not be hosted on a site that can be viewed by the public. It should be stored and edited on a local system until it is production quality.”
Well, first we complain about no official word from Asus - then, when Asus decides that they’ll release at least something as soon as possible to show that stuff is happening, we complain that they didn’t wait until it was all polished up…
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:30 pm
yeah sry date is dd/mm/yy - I’m from germany and as more germans can english then english ppl can german I decided to “post” this news - usually your community is faster then this one in DE but not at this time - therefore I posted it…
In the article is written that the “EEE gets launched during this press conference” so I guess the EEE will be [hopefully] available short after this date. As this is an official E-Mail of Asus I don’t have any doubts that this could be a fake.
And don’t worry - I don’t think that they like the germans more then the US ppl, maybe Asus will send these E-Mails in the US too…
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
” As this is an official E-Mail of Asus I don’t have any doubts that this could be a fake.”
Eh, I think in English this is more or less the opposite from what you probably intended to say.
BTW: I am Dutch.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:51 pm
The site is pretty horrible and leads me to believe that they don’t have much pride in their workmanship. If they cannot hire someone who knows English well (”The Eee PC includes the documents and the e-mails software”) and who can type without typos (”Specificatioin changes are subject to different models”), then I have little faith in their ability to hire and retain hardware design experts.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I’ve never seen so much concentrated whining before.
How old are most of you?
Apparently few of you were around when Chrysler tried to palm off a car called the Nova in Spanish-speaking South America…
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Ronald: Yeah you were right, I meant that that this 100% isn’t a fake…
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
German blog says Oct 6…
http://www.tonsai-media.de/2007/asus-eee-release-am-611-in-deutschland/
Truth or Internet echo chamber?
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:43 pm
And 16GB version? I want to use EEE for work and Ill need more space then 4GB. 16GB is optimal space. I dont need more but this is minimum for many people. Anyone heave some iformations?
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:34 pm
That website is way too sloppy. In this day and age no website should ever be a “work in progress” unless its on myspace or geocities. A commercial website for a product has to be “damn near perfect” when you upload it and allow access to it. This has removed all confidence in me that this product will be worthwhile, Palm Centro here I come!
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Chrysler didn’t build the Nova, Chevrolet and Toyota did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Nova
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Nova#The_urban_legend
Just to keep the legend from spreading even more wrong.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Revert: I got the date from chinese/taiwanese webpages. The same page(s) also revealed that before the release Asus decided to add more softwares to the system after having 1000 units tested by its employees and their families. Sounds real to me. I’m trying to locate these pages and post them here…
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:02 am
Mike Cane: Did You mean November?? 06.11.2007 (11/6/07)
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:11 am
its even already on ebay..
http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-EEE-PC-701-UMPC-PRE-SALE-GUARANTEED-TO-GET-ONE_W0QQitemZ200158683938QQihZ010QQcategoryZ114205QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:30 am
rbolt:
That’s just to reserve a preorder from a reseller of ASUS devices- the seller does not have the physical device. The seller is essentially taking advantage of people…
furthermore, on preordering, there’s maybe 3-4 websites that allow you to do it- with no confirmed data from ASUS- and people are up in arms worrying about getting one from these websites. they fail to see that those 3-4 websites are just a handful of ASUS resellers out there…
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:10 am
Be very wary of anyone with a Eee pc pre-order website. It just stinks of trouble. That ebay posting is a joke too. $650 for one unit? Ya gotta be kidding me.
October 3rd, 2007 at 6:10 am
sup: Yes, in germany the launch according to an official asus mail to ppl from the press is the 6th November (germany!)…
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
What’s hard to understand about “work in progress” is that you don’t publish them on the public internet. heck, even I know that, even for personal web pages I wouldn’t do it.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Maybe this site is not really meant to be accessed by the public yet.
On the regular Asus site (http://www.asus.com/ and from there to many different language versions of the site) the only reference to the EeePC is the June 11th press release about the June 6th Computex presentation with no further links. And when you go to http://event.asus.com/ there is no link to anything EeePC.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Is there a delay between a comment being submitted and the comment being shown? I thought something went wrong because I did not see my comment, so I wrote it a second time and now I see the first version of my comment and not the second version that may now appear later also.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Ronald- sometimes if there’s a link in a comment the auto-spam features make it so I have to approve the comment before it’s actually posted
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
>>>Just to keep the legend from spreading even more wrong.
What, Comments should be researched first? Ha!
Yeah, November, I guess. Bad math in my head.
Here’s another French piccie:
http://www.blogeee.net/?p=155#more-155
A new Russian one:
http://www.nbnews.info/news/asus-eee-pc-2008
Cnet China article translated:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftaiwan.cnet.com%2Fnews%2Fce%2F0%2C2000062982%2C20124476%2C00.htm&langpair=zh%7Cen&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
Right. Let the wailing re-commence!
October 4th, 2007 at 3:56 am
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October 4th, 2007 at 5:25 am
“Comming Soon”
Heh… it’s under “Learning”… maybe soon they will learn to spell.
October 4th, 2007 at 7:05 am
I just got off the phone with Asus in Sweden. According to them, it is scheduled to come out either in the end of 2007 or the beginnning of 2008. He could not even tell me if it were to come out before christmas.
October 4th, 2007 at 7:31 am
but I’m sure they mean November 6… crazy date stamps!
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Actually it’s more logical or a date stamp to be dd/mm/yy as the different fields increase uniormly in magnitude.
As far as I’m aware Americans are the only ones who use the completely illogical mm/dd/yy format.
October 4th, 2007 at 7:40 am
I can’t beleive I turned this comment board into a forum about proper date stamps. I think I caused an international incident.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:41 am
if everyone would just use ISO 8601 timestamps this wouldn’t be a problem.
Posted at 2007-10-04T09:39+0400
October 4th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
That’s much more clear. Thanks.
October 4th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
cool, nice way how to spend time while waiting for EEE
October 4th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
>> cool, nice way how to spend time while waiting for EEE
Ok, let’s talk about all other 10 thousand ISO standards, I think we have to wait for a while
October 4th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Just in time for oktoberfest!
October 4th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
FYI
The EEE PC was announced to be shown on the CompWorld exhibition in Bangkok at the end of September (27-30). On the event webpage they even published a price, 8000 thb (around 250 usd). Later they updated the website to say preorder is available only.
Actually at the event they had one prototype EEE PC in a glass cabinet, and some guys talking about technical specs. The guys there at asus didn’t know about the release date or even about preorder, but then i have found someone competent.
He told me, at that time there was only one shipping of eee pc yet, to mainland China, to some schools, as a pilot project. He also told me that the EEE PC will be sold in Thailand end of this year, or maybe January next year. They will sell the 4G/512M model, for the price of 11900 THB (around 375 USD).
That’s all I know now. Quite disappointing, more expensive, more waiting
October 5th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Robert: Thanks for the info. The time frame seems to fit in with what i wrote previously (post #42) - End of 2007 or beginning of 2008.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:54 am
I think talking about ISO standards won’t last till January
Another disappointment around the corner? It seems in contradiction with things they say on Citrusmicro and ncix…
October 5th, 2007 at 4:52 am
At this pace it may last till spring next year for the Eee PC to be available in Europe and North America. By that time we may have a choice between similar little machines from different manufacturers. According o rumors, Steve Jobs has a ultra-mobile MacBook up his sleeve.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:57 am
Was that correct English? I meant to say it wil last till spring next year for the Eee PC to *become* available in Europe and North America.
October 5th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I got a call from Citrus yesterday asking me to confirm my desire to purchase a system. I questioned them on their pricing, as they were linking to the article in the Inquirer but still priced about $100 higher. They stated that they linked to the article strictly for the review, but never mentioned that anywhere on the site. I told him unfortunately I couldn’t commit at their new prices. He went into a five minute pitch about why I should buyit and I finally just hung up. I can’t believe that it is going to be that impossible to get one from another asus reseller without all the BS.
October 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
All I know is if they aren’t shipping Eee PC’s by November 6th at the absolute latest, I will stop caring and just buy a real PC with Vista and a 60 Gig hard drive.
Guys, have you ever bought something off the internet and you had to wait so long to get it that by the time it arrived you didn’t want it anymore? Thats how I am beginning to feel. Thanks for the buzzkill Asus!
October 5th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Well I personally love it! just read the review at blogeee.net and it is fantastic! I could wait until Easter to get! I want it!
October 5th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
“Guys, have you ever bought something off the internet and you had to wait so long to get it that by the time it arrived you didn’t want it anymore? Thats how I am beginning to feel. Thanks for the buzzkill Asus!”
So I take it that you’re not buying it cause its a cheap ultralight are you.
I am still looking forward to it because I fly alot, and lugging around my dell is a pain in the rear, but I’m too cheap to get a full price umpc
October 6th, 2007 at 1:27 am
Right on, Ziggit. We all COULD get a full-spec laptop for $400, but best of luck to anyone who can find a brand new one for that much with a 6″x9″ footprint.
In the meantime, bsmith, I sure hope you can find what you’re after at the right price. Keep moving forward, ’cause you can’t go back on that bridge you just burned. =O
October 6th, 2007 at 5:06 am
I guess my frustration stems from the fact that our dreams of the 6×9 footprint laptop are being attacked on two fronts. On one side the release date keeps being pushed back, and on the other side the price keeps going up. By the time this comes out the minimum price will be $300-$400, pushed into the range of low end laptops. And while we will all probably still get one, in actuality the extended release dates may have just been a ploy to allow time to raise the price to more profitable levels for Asus. Classic bait and switch…. Bait them with $199, six months goes by, sell it to them for $400. You’ll see. Just call me stupid, because I will still probably be the first on line to buy (smile).
October 6th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
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October 6th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Has anyone here actually gone ahead and trusted any company with a “$150 NON-refundable deposit”? What’s up with that BS, first of all. Second, doesn’t the USPS or FTC disallow that? And isn’t there a law about funds being held for more than 30 days without giving the buyer the option of cancelling for full refund? I don’t know which seems more desperate: potential Eee buyers or the alleged companies that will allegedly sell them.
October 6th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I emailed a few of my vendors about the eee. One replied back and said, “I wanted to get in touch with you as your question about the Asus EEE was sent over to me. I checked on this and Yes, we will be carrying the Asus EEE PC. This is to be available for sale through us at the end of the month, but we are currently waiting on the sku to setup in our system.” I’ll let this site know as soon as I see them available.
October 6th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Since finding out about the eee i fell in love, i’ve been following the olpc and the $100 pc for years and this was the closest thing and i was happy, then the delays started, the changes in spec. No fixed price.
I started like others to think this was vaporware, I started to feel a bit low, thinking on my budget i’d have to resort to going to PCworld to get my new lappy (my screen is virtually destroyed on this one, lord knows how i’m managing).
This is now confirmed as ASUSLAPTOPS.co.uk and NEXUS13.co.uk have boosted the price again, £260 + approx.
I really want one of these EEE’s, but theres a limit.
October 7th, 2007 at 1:34 am
Just out of sheer curiosity, how do those of you that don’t pronounce it uh-soos pronounce it. I am also curious about the proper pronunciation of ikea, aka: the non eye-key-ah.
October 7th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Oh, and yes, I pre-ordered 2: a 700 with webcam and a 701 (one for me, and one for my mom), and they don’t charge you until it ships, so when it ships they take $150 from you if you canceled your order or charge you the full price for what you ordered.
but my view is if you already pre-ordered it and you’re gonna be out 150 anyways, why not just bite the bullet and get the bottom model?
October 7th, 2007 at 6:40 am
ziggit: regarding pronounciation of ikea.
I don’t know how to explaing how to say it, but look at the [letters] here:
n[ee]dle-[k]-f[e]ar-m[a]ture
This is how you pronounce it in Sweden, where ikea is from.
And I pronounce Asus like ace-sus.
October 7th, 2007 at 8:39 am
@Ziggit:
Ah-suss
and
EEE kay-ah
October 7th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Does anyone know if the Eee PC is currently being sold in china. Cause ill just get my cousin to ship it to me. This waiting is getting tiresome.
October 7th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Awesome, I’ll have to remember the proper pronunciations.
October 7th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
I am waiting for an EEE pc too, but please do not take it too serious. I used to play it somehow, however it is more like a toy. Feel quite funny that some one is waiting it and do not buy a real pc. I think that is wrong.
October 7th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Umm. . . what?
October 8th, 2007 at 7:00 am
http://www.ferra.ru/online/mobilis/73845/
one more review in russian lang
October 8th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Some new info about eee on oficial website ..
http://eeepc.asus.com/en/product.htm
October 8th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Great find. It’s what we’ve been waiting for- that actial ability to CHOOSE! Unfortunately, the google-found version of the page still hasn’t been updated. I think you have to take out the /index/ part to get to yours.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Google finds:
http://event.asus.com/eeepc/en/index.htm
The newer pages are at:
http://eeepc.asus.com/en/index.htm
October 8th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Big news! 4 models of eeepc comming out- Eee PC 2G Pure, Eee PC 2G Surf, Eee PC 2G, Eee PC 4G. Comparison of features at the bottom of the product page.
http://eeepc.asus.com/en/product.htm
October 8th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Weird thing is that the only difference between the 2g regular and the 2g surf is that the regular does not have stereo speakers (or its just a typo), though it may have a camera that the surf does not.
October 8th, 2007 at 10:37 am
My guess:
Eee PC 4G = 701
(replaceable memory)
Eee PC 2G = 701 (replaceable memory)
Eee PC 2G Surf = 700 (non-replaceable memory, 4 cells)
Eee PC 2G Pure = 700 (non-replaceable memory, 2 cells, $199 model)
October 8th, 2007 at 11:01 am
That’s my guess “M”, but your news got scooped by “Marek.”
October 8th, 2007 at 11:32 am
I would cry with JOY if the unit that they finally come out with has the same LCD screen (dual mode, regular and battery saving, with sunlight viewable ability) as the OLPC laptop. Days of use on one battery, viewable outdoors, with the specs the same (external VGA port, USB power to external USB devices, like USB powered hard drive, USB powered external CD/DVD ROM or burner, etc…) all that… would be wonderful. Of course user and service tech replaceable ECC and Wear Leveling Flash Storage, and upgradeable RAM would be a nice touch as well. Hmmm, given that I would imagine that Quanta is doing a consumer version of the OLPC (announced, if I am correct)… then if that system has the power saving LCD features that the OLPC uses, then if ASUS does not have this feature at the same time that Quanta has it, well I wonder in a side by side comparison, which one that consumers will buy. I would be happy to wait for ASUS to include features that would compete with Quanta and OLPC on power saving and LCD sunlight use features.
October 8th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Actually citrusmicro already changed their info on the product. Look at different versions/prices at (there’s a colored table at the bottom):
http://www.citrusmicro.com/webdocs/Items/Details689.cfm
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December 27th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
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December 27th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
and again…
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20071226PB203.html
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