ASUS Posts Launch Timeframes For Eee PC Models
October 23rd, 2007 by antOn the official ASUS Eee PC website, ASUS updated the product information table to include launch dates:
- Eee PC 8G: End of November
- Eee PC 4G: 10/16/07 Global Launch
- Eee PC 4G Surf: Middle of November
- Eee PC 2G Surf : End of November
As expected, the Eee PC 4G will be the first model to be released in the United States on November 1st.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:30 pm
OK.
Now announce the damn price. also where does it say the 4G is out in 1st november ?
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Great news we have a date. Now lets see some prices and some sellers.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Great news. Now lets see some prices and some sellers.
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Yes! Now I just hope the 4G will be around $350
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:31 pm
So, based on all of the data at our disposal today, we can assume that the 4G is priced at $399 and will become available as of 11-1-2007 or thereabouts.
Not the optimal (read: happy path) solution, but frankly a pretty good opportunity to try out a new form factor and delivery platofrm at a pretty good price.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Oh good point. It does say “global launch” so it’s not certain that Nov 1isn’t the US release date. We need some proof.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:19 pm
I thought 8G was going to be $399?
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I don’t know… I’m beginning to think that the 4G will sell for $399, and one month later, the 8G will sell for the same $399; it’s starting to sound like they’ll do the same thing Apple did with the iPhones…
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
excellent news! finally!
I’m going to Miami on December, I hope Bestbuy sells the 8GB version by then
October 24th, 2007 at 12:51 am
I’m also confused as to how the Nov 1 US release date for the 4G was derived. 10/16 was the global launch, but nothing is said about US. I hope this is right though, I want one!
October 24th, 2007 at 12:54 am
Skeptical.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Yeah I noticed it on the eee pc website earlier today. The “global launch” of the 4G doesn’t equal US launch 11-1, at least not in my mind.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Still not impressive, given that they “promised” the “4G” for $199. Bumping that to $349-399 is pretty bad if you ask me. (I know they now give a bit more RAM - but RAM is cheap these days)
October 24th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Sorry… but damn… HK official launch for 4GB is 27 Oct….. now should I wait for the 8GB???? and how much would it be???
October 24th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Finally, but where od the prices hide, damn it?!
October 24th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Indeed, there is no evidence that November 1st is the date. No evidence at all. For all we know the 4G version can launch anytime between now and Mid-November in the US. Yes folks the goalpost has officially been moved again. I may just go ahead and buy that new smartphone I wanted and wait until Mid-November for the Eee if and thats a capital IF IF IF it comes out then. I am thinking it may be end of November when they post on the website “Mid-December”.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:55 am
ASUS has confirmed to me personally via e-mail several times and from several different people that November 1st is the all important date. Other websites have reported this as well.
-Ant
October 24th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Is there anyway you can use a external hardrive to boot from?
October 24th, 2007 at 3:29 am
[...] [via EEE User] [...]
October 24th, 2007 at 4:35 am
“Admin” with regards to the ‘release date’ that Asus has confirmed I will tell you the same thing I tell everyone else… I won’t believe it until the money is in my bank account. Or in the case of the Eee I won’t believe it until I have just purchased the unit and am on my way home from Best Buy.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:15 am
A ‘launch’ date does not tell much about dates the machines will actually be available in different countries. One can only conclude that availability will not be before the launch date. Prices will of course differ between countries and will probably not be established until shortly before availability
Who has come to believe that a 4G model was promised for $199, read again the original announcement, it is about a Eee PC with 2GB flash storage:
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=7378
October 24th, 2007 at 6:32 am
“10/16 Global Launch”
October is 10th…
[confused]
October 24th, 2007 at 6:46 am
Admin - Asus said that the initial price will be 199$ too, but after that it turned out not quite the way we thought…
October 24th, 2007 at 7:23 am
[...] ИÑточник: http://www.eeeuser.com/2007/10/23/asus-posts-launch-dates-for-eee-pc-models/ [...]
October 24th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Is this going to get released at Circuit City? I know I’ve heard BB and Newegg, but I thought those were just examples of places.
Would a CC release be delayed?
October 24th, 2007 at 10:33 am
After the delay and the price increase, this thing is becoming less and less attractive. If the 4g IS $399, it would probably be better to forego the small form factor, pay an extra $100 and get a laptop with vista, 1gb of ram, a full sized HD and a DVD burner like the Dell Vostro 1000 :(( :sadface:
October 24th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
For a UK buyer its beginning to look like the 8G is going to finish up being between £300 and £350…which is just about the same as the Easynote XS20-006 (http://www.packardbell.co.uk/products/notebooks/easynote-xs/easynote-xs20-006—coming-soon/productsheet-PC02F00501-1256.html). This is not cool…I am pretty close to buying whichever one is out first. Asus please be ***FIRST***
My prediction (for the UK):
2G ~ £200
4G ~ £250
8G ~ £300
I would guess that there is a margin of error there of about +£20/30.
Once you hit the £350 mark, the Via-alike is looking like that way to go, well it will once Windows XP home is binned! Its hard drive is much much bigger(30gb), even is its not SSD.
Asus please don’t let us down, do this right and you are onto a 100% bonefide winner.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Citrus Micro called me yesterday and said the 4G is starting to ship out in a “rolling shipment” (meaning they send out x amount of units per day, etc) - they’re still charging $399 for the 4G…I’d be rather pissed if the 8G comes out less then a month later for the same price. It’d be like Apple!
October 24th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Interesting that in the Support->FAQ section on the site it looks like SDHC cards aren’t supported.
Quote:
What kind of memory card does the Eee PC support?
1. MMC: include MMC (Multimedia Card) / MMC Plus / RS-MMC (Reduced Size) (with MMC adapter)
2. SD: include SD (Secure Digital) / MicroSD (with SD adapter)
3. MiniSD (with SD adapter)
October 24th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I note that on the actual acer pae it says “10/16 global launch”
it doesn’t say which year.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
As far as booting from external sources… why not USB
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cheap-sata/brando-ships-yet-another-usb-to-sataide-combo-kit-284795.php
Along the same topic, I could buy the 2G, connect USB such as drive, wifi, mouse, and camera.
My guess.. the companies knows this already, yet nothing can be really done. Unless skyrocketing the price is a compensation tactic.
this method would be far less in terms of cost.
yes / no ?
October 24th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Yes, it is able to boot from a external usb hard drive or flash drive via the bios setup.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
USB !!!
wifi, camera, drives, mouses etc..
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cheap-sata/brando-ships-yet-another-usb-to-sataide-combo-kit-284795.php
Design a wicked new product and releasing months later must be a nightmare in high resolution.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
When are we going to see that linux distro available for download? My understanding is any change to Linux that is comercialized has to be available for free.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Respectable name: actually it’s not exactly like that. Several companies (Xandros included, as well as Novell) have found “workarounds” on the GPL not to realease their versions for free. For example Xandros, Red Hat and Novell have distributions which it is illegal to have without a commercial license, since their distributions come with closed source licensed software… Actually some of them have free software alternatives (Fedora for Red Hat, SuSe for Novell, Freespire for Linspire), but Xandros hasn’t. Asus chose one of the linux vendors that support less open source software…
October 24th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
$199, I will snatch that up.
$399, not worth it anymore.
Where has this $399 number come from?
October 24th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
i’ll buy one for $350 or $400. you people that are saying that you’ll spend a bit more and get a full-sized windows lappy are missing the point of this unit. i’m going to buy one because there’s nothing else even remotely like it out there. i already have a macbook pro, but a super-portable notebook like this is just simply more convenient to carry around than anything else.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Hey “Mat Sci Guy” I took a look at that Easynote computer you mentioned. Not a bad computer. Only one problem… just like the Asus, its not out yet. If the Asus price went up $100-$200 then we can only expect this Easynote computer with Windows XP to go from 349 to 500-600 in a heartbeat. Ya better stick with the Asus, that is if it ever comes out in the UK/US.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
AS far as prices are concerned, I’m sticking with the idea that the 4G is around $350 being based on what Asus said them selves. They said that the price range was up to $400 across all the models, so the only assumption that can be made is that the 8G is the $400 dollar model because it is the one with the highest stats.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
RE: Public release of GPL code
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
The GNU GPL only requires that the program users have access to the source code, if it was modified. If you are required to purchase a user license to use the software they can restrict the code to only licensed users. There is absolutely no requirement to release the code for free tot he public on the internet. It’s a great myth of the GPL, and one FUD meisters like to use to scare companies away from it.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I also just looked at the easynote, and its other problem aside from not being shipping yet is that it appears to have a Hard Drive with moving parts, instead of a solid-state disk like the triple-E has. (If that is a typo there, and that 30GB HDD is actually an SSD… then I’d want one, but I don’t think that would be under $1k anytime soon.)
On the EEE front, I’ve talked to best buy a few times recently, and again today, and they still don’t have anything about it in their system
I think $350 is the most I’d pay for the 4GB model, but I’d pay a bit more for a bigger SSD and 1GB of RAM.
I’m really hoping to get one of these on Nov 1!
October 24th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
This is disappointing. I was willing to pay $250 or maybe even $300 for this machine, but I’m not sure I want it for $350 or $400.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I’m not really getting why so many are complaining for the $399 for the 4G version. Sure, it would be cool if we could get the 8G for that money, but before the 8G was even mentioned the 4G had been priced at $399 for some time, and many of us were willing to buy it anyway… also, thinking about getting a full laptop for that price would be like being interested in a pocket dictionary and changing it for an encyclopedia just because they are the same price…
October 25th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Expansys is already pre-selling to Portugal:
http://www.expansys.pt/p.aspx?i=158485
See also:
http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=158607
http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=158485
on the UK site…
October 25th, 2007 at 11:33 am
I noticed in the download files on asus’s site for the eeepc 4g, there is a section that says other.
Im not a linux person but it says debain 4.0 and is 1.7gb. Is this the operating system it uses??? i thought it was exclusive for the eee, i figured you probably couldnt just download it. Any thoughts?
October 25th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Any word on whether Asus has gotten FCC approval? Somewhere I read that FCC approval is the final hurdle that must be overcome before they release models with wifi.
- TC
October 25th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I can see having problems with maybe 3g wireless, but every laptop has a wifi card cant picture it being a problem, if it is i’ll just buy the $35 mini pci card online and slap it in there
October 25th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
thehbcrew, thanks for that interesting find there on the ASUS support site. I’m sure that by “Debain” they must mean Debian, which is what Xandros is based on. Maybe Xandros thinks they don’t need to distribute any source code other than their upstream’s (they’re mistaken if so). A lot of what Xandros adds is probably not modifications of GPL software, but entirely new proprietary software, and they are not required to distribute source to that stuff. But they definitely ARE required to distribute (source code for) their changes to the Debian stuff they’re using.
I am downloading that big zip file right now, and I’ll post here again when I find out what is in it. The server seems to be capped at about 10KB/sec though, so it’ll be a while
FWIW, I am running Debian 4.0 right now, and after I get an Eee PC I plan to play with Xandros for a few hours but then I definitely will erase it and install Debian or Ubuntu. For me, running a proprietary Debian variant like Xandros, Linspire, or Nokia’s Maemo, really has very little appeal. My name in this comment has a link to the GNU philosophy page which will explain more about software freedom for those who are interested.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
If it only has 1 radio chip WiFi) then only the chip needs FCC approval.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I’ve just seen where the EEE 701, ENGLISH version is available on EBAY for $472USD. The seller claims to have 30 “available now”. Perhaps this is a preliminary indication of widespread release?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
My download of EeePC701_071012.zip failed after about 26MB, and my numerous subsequent attempts yielded first a “503 Service Unavailable” error, followed by some “404 Not found” errors, and then another 503 error, and then finally a 200 OK from which I am now downloading it again. The support.asus.com page I got the link from now says it is a 1823.53 MB file; I’m not sure what it said before but I thought it was under 1800 MB. As Matt Drudge would say, this story is still DEVELOPING…
October 25th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
BREAKING: The download timed out again, and now I’m getting another mix of 404s and 503s.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
which server are you downloading it from, i started the china one, but it was slow so i cancelled it, esp seeing as im at work. But asus site has always been horrible for downloading
October 25th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I used the “global” link. Now, I’m using this curl command to cycle through many of their servers and resume my previous attempts: curl -C - -O “http://dlsvr[01-10].asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/701/EeePC701_071012.zip”
I’m on dlsvr03 getting about 7KB/sec right now.
I guess this is yet another advantage to using a good GNU/Linux distro like Debian or Ubuntu — they’re a bit better at distributing things online.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
I just read over at InternetTabletTalk.com that CNET UK reviewed the triple-E PC, and gave it a score of 8.6 (out of 10): http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39030093,49293507,00.htm
Btw, for all the people here who are not using Linux yet and who want to try it on an existing PC before the Eee is available, you should checkout http://www.getgnulinux.org where there is a good intro to the subject.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Debian Source -
That curl option is pretty clever. I have fiber at work and I appear to be getting about 30K, which isn’t fast at all, but maybe in 16 hours we will know the truth.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
#
JDP wrote:
If it only has 1 radio chip WiFi) then only the chip needs FCC approval.
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 3:14 pm #
———————
No.
The whole computer must pass FCC. Not just the chip.
FCC certification is for passing test that check it for not exceeding a specified level of radiation. AKA the RF noise the unit put’s out…
I had experence getting some computers though class B…
October 25th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Flower wrote:
USB !!!
wifi, camera, drives, mouses etc..
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cheap-sata/brando-ships-yet-another-usb-to-sataide-combo-kit-284795.php
Design a wicked new product and releasing months later must be a nightmare in high resolution.
———
Darn expensive Try this one been out for many months… much less..
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cat=HDD
October 26th, 2007 at 1:35 am
[...] По материалам eeeuser.com [...]
October 26th, 2007 at 8:28 am
The iPod Touch never had an entry in the FCC database, IIRC because of the same issue - one radio transmitter. See earlier posts on this site.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Following up as promised… After many many hours, I finally got EeePC701_071012.zip (1867292084 bytes). Inside, there was one file, another zip file called 2007-10-12-build.zip.zip (1867162929 bytes). Inside of that, there is a directory called 2007-10-12-build.zip (1873879527 bytes). In there, there are two directories “dists” and “pool” (this is a debian repository). At ./dists/p701/main/source/Sources.gz there is a list of source packages. There is nothing else in ./dists. In the pool directory there are 479 .dsc files, 478 .tar.gz files, and 392 .diff.gz files. Of these, 11 packages have “asus” in their filenames and thus appear to be custom packages from ASUS:
pool$ ls -1|grep asus
acpid_1.0.4-5asus1.diff.gz
acpid_1.0.4-5asus1.dsc
amarok_1.4.3-3xandros38asus27.dsc
amarok_1.4.3-3xandros38asus27.tar.gz
digikam_0.8.2.16-3asus20.dsc
digikam_0.8.2.16-3asus20.tar.gz
digikam-doc_0.8.2.4-1asus2.dsc
digikam-doc_0.8.2.4-1asus2.tar.gz
digikamimageplugins_0.8.2.4-3asus20.dsc
digikamimageplugins_0.8.2.4-3asus20.tar.gz
fontconfig_2.4.2-1.2asus2.diff.gz
fontconfig_2.4.2-1.2asus2.dsc
libkipi_0.1.4-1asus1.diff.gz
libkipi_0.1.4-1asus1.dsc
scim_1.4.4-7asus4.dsc
scim_1.4.4-7asus4.tar.gz
stalonetray_0.6.5-1asus2.dsc
stalonetray_0.6.5-1asus2.tar.gz
udev_090.x.1.26-2asus13.dsc
udev_090.x.1.26-2asus13.tar.gz
xbase-clients_7.2.ds2-2asus2.diff.gz
xbase-clients_7.2.ds2-2asus2.dsc
Many of the source packages included are unmodified Debian etch 4.0r0 packages, down to the md5sums in the .dsc file. There are 17 packages with “xandros” in their name. There is iceweasel_2.0.0.3-1 (that is etch 4.0r0; etch-updates should provide 2.0.0.6-0etch1) as well as firefox_2.0.0.3+x-1xandros3.
I hope it is able to run existing Linux distros without needing to port any special ASUS patches!
October 29th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
I saw best buy and new egg mentioned on this site 2 weeks ago as the retailers to have the Eee available on 11/1. Haven’t seen anything new since and nothing on the retailer’s sites yet.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:57 am
I just spoke with ASUS Netherlands over here.
they mentioned that there will be a release with a “basic” and “upgrade” version. wich will cost € 300 and €400.
they also mentioned 4G and 8G with that.
If this would be the price for those models it would be very intresting.
anyway, no release date known here though.
what they also mentioned was:
Our technical department tried to install “Windows XP” but after the installation (wich was a hell of a job to do) we noticed a lot of problems. And that they removed it right a way.
Does this mean that XP wont run as good as thought and previewd. or that asus nl lacks knowledge?
PS: anything known about the SSD upgrade? will this be upgradable or soldered? haven’t heard much about this in a while.
October 30th, 2007 at 8:14 am
I would be extremely surprised if the Eee starts selling on November 1st. There has not been one single word from Best Buy or Newegg about the product. If this is a product launch it is the most silent one I have ever seen. I guarantee it, walk into Best Buy on November 1st and ask anyone, even management about the Eee PC and you will get the same response across the country - “Huh? Never heard of it.”
The absolute earliest you will see this unit here is November 6th. But Mid-November, early December is also a possibility. I would love to be wrong, but I don’t think I will be.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Conflict: According to
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/one_laptop_per_1.html
(see bottom)
the 2G model was dropped.
According to here, the 2G model
is coming end of November.
What is the correct status?
Sheng-Chieh
p.s. For US folks, you can
buy the mid-sized laptop at
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0275847
http://directron.com/asuseeepc701.html
http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4205304
http://milwaukeepc.com/Specials/ASUS/
http://www.pcclub.com/events/eeepc/?CFID=2331480&CFTOKEN=55983125
November 4th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Another question.
About the webcam on the 4G
model that is currently on the
market, how good is the view
(resolution and speed)? Is it
good enough for lip-reading
on videophone? [Normally I use
a special captioning phone (on
landline) for hearing-impaired.
Bottom line: can I use
videophone instead?]
Sheng-Chieh
November 7th, 2007 at 7:19 am
I dont want to download 1,8 G over slow connection. Could anyone provide a basic installation iso, without the packages. Can fetch them later. I am interested in in the init process and the desktop. Thanks in advance
November 7th, 2007 at 8:01 am
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/EeePC/701/EeePC701_071012.zip
is much faster
November 27th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Cialis….
Free sample cialis….
December 1st, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Check this out! Someone is selling the 8G (USA/Canada) http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?minorcatid=1006&subminorcatid=205
December 7th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Just order one (in stock) from newegg
December 8th, 2007 at 3:25 am
Thanks Woweee!!
Because of you I ordered one too from NewEgg.com
Just today I got email back from Centralcomputer that they were due to have it in late December.
I was bummed by the news. But newegg has them today.
Mine’s on order and should be here soon!
December 28th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Asus Eee 4gb also available in black and in stock (both colours) at Clove Technology:
http://www.clove.co.uk/
Can recommend excellent service from this site.
December 30th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
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