On 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.
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OK.
Now announce the damn price. also where does it say the 4G is out in 1st november ?
Great news we have a date. Now lets see some prices and some sellers.
Great news. Now lets see some prices and some sellers.
Yes! Now I just hope the 4G will be around $350
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.
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.
I thought 8G was going to be $399?
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…
excellent news! finally!
I’m going to Miami on December, I hope Bestbuy sells the 8GB version by then
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!
Skeptical.
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.
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)
Sorry… but damn… HK official launch for 4GB is 27 Oct….. now should I wait for the 8GB???? and how much would it be???
Finally, but where od the prices hide, damn it?!
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”.
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
Is there anyway you can use a external hardrive to boot from?
“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.
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 $199, read again the original announcement, it is about a Eee PC with 2GB flash storage:
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=7378
“10/16 Global Launch”
October is 10th…
[confused]
Admin – Asus said that the initial price will be 199$ too, but after that it turned out not quite the way we thought…
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?
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:
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.
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!
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)
I note that on the actual acer pae it says “10/16 global launch”
it doesn’t say which year.
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 ?
Yes, it is able to boot from a external usb hard drive or flash drive via the bios setup.
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.
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.
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…
$199, I will snatch that up.
$399, not worth it anymore.
Where has this $399 number come from?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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…
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…
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?
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
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
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.
If it only has 1 radio chip WiFi) then only the chip needs FCC approval.
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?
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…
BREAKING: The download timed out again, and now I’m getting another mix of 404s and 503s.
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