Remember 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!
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“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”
I am definately content with 4gb, but I would obviously like a 8 or 16 gb
Go team eee.
Lame!
(Oh, and “Serivice”. Teehee!)
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.
Um… Work in progress, guys? What is so hard to understand about that?
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.
Maybe 801 model is just a mistake, like “serivice” or “Specificatioin” in the front page
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”
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?
Shouldn’t it already be well known that Oct.11 will be the date?
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.
>>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.
“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.
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
Dude: What? 6/11/07? Sounds obsolete to me. That was a week after the first show.
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!
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
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.
I feel retarded- I didn’t even think about the stamp difference. Sorry, “Dude”. Anyway, where did Zhiyu get his date. Oct 11?
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…
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…
” 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.
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.
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…
Ronald: Yeah you were right, I meant that that this 100% isn’t a fake…
German blog says Oct 6…
http://www.tonsai-media.de/2007/asus-eee-release-am-611-in-deutschland/
Truth or Internet echo chamber?
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?
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!
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.
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…
Mike Cane: Did You mean November?? 06.11.2007 (11/6/07)
its even already on ebay..
http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-EEE-PC-701-UMPC-PRE-SALE-GUARANTEED-TO-GET-ONE_W0QQitemZ200158683938QQihZ010QQcategoryZ114205QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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…
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.
sup: Yes, in germany the launch according to an official asus mail to ppl from the press is the 6th November (germany!)…
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.
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.
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.
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
>>>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!
“Comming Soon”
Heh… it’s under “Learning”… maybe soon they will learn to spell.
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.
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.
I can’t beleive I turned this comment board into a forum about proper date stamps. I think I caused an international incident.
if everyone would just use ISO 8601 timestamps this wouldn’t be a problem.
Posted at 2007-10-04T09:39+0400
That’s much more clear. Thanks.
cool, nice way how to spend time while waiting for EEE
>> 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
Just in time for oktoberfest!
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
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