Finally ready to hold an Eee PC 4G? The final price comes in at $399 for the 512MB RAM/4G Hard Drive/Webcam model. Directron customers have already reported receiving the Eee PC, according to this post on the forums. Newegg also has it for sale, as of today. For more retailers in North America, check out the ASUS where to buy list.
Newegg, Directron Both Have Eee PC 4G For Sale
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That’s kinda what I was saying…that whole “this isn’t a one size fits all and they have other sizes that you can try on”
btw: it’s gonna be awesome to run Ubuntu 7.10 on this thing
(and yeah, that whole as small as Nestle Cruch bar thing is hugely important…like a big deal…
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It funny watching people compare the EEE to other similarly sized notebooks. Those notebooks have 4-8x the speed, more memory, far more drive space, larger screens, better resolution, better cases, better manufacture. (and yes, usually crappier keyboards)
What i’m not happy about is the more recent announcement that the range for the EEE was up to $400. Not that the second from the top was $400. Even if they priced it at $350 they’d be making a decent profit.
At least Asus will get the opportunity to take advantage of the first-movers. I hope they announce a $100 price drop like Apple did in a month or so. =)
yeah I’m stuck in that too…buy now or wait and pray for a price drop
If it was $350, I’d throw caution to the wind and grab the little guy now.
We seem to be going back and forth on this price. Yes, it is a big issue and I vehemently disagree with Asus’ approach but this computer fills a SERIOUS need in the marketplace which is why its so popular. I run five desktop computers right now for my business but I have never in all my years owned a laptop. This will be my very first. I have the most sophisticated smartphone money can buy but I never got into laptops because they were so big and bulky.
Most of us don’t go to Starbucks to play Quake or World of Warcraft. Most people do that at home. Laptops are primarily used for business and personal portability aspects. So this unit is ideal for that purpose.
For a long time I was tempted to buy a used ultraportable on ebay. Probably the Fujitsu Lifebook P1120 which is the same size as the Eee. You can even get it for about $350 on ebay if you are lucky but no guarantees on battery life or if something breaks. The Eee is brand new and cutting edge.
Now about the price. Even after all this talk of $199 I expected to pay upwards of $350. The $446.02 I did pay was a bit of a shock to me, but I really wanted it. I know the price will go down but so be it… In a few months we will have MANY choices in this category. I predict that the Asus unit will open a floodgate of manufacturers putting out units exactly like this one. Apple will probably come out with the mini-Imac, all the other PC dealers will have theirs and in short order this form factor will be the new gold standard for portability. While their pricing tactics sucked, Asus is the innovator…. Maybe one day in the future the Eee will be on display in the Smithsonian as the first mass produced SSD based computer. By then 1 Terabyte MicroSD drives will be $49 at Best Buy.
$400 ASUS you are joking right. I just got a used DELL D620 14″ widescreen Intel Core Duo for $500 w/2yr left on warranty.
Just new egg this morning…paused..tonight, they were gone. Thanks for the microcenter link, just picked one up. 419 with shipping. Cool
I’m sitting at the Microcenter checkout screen in another window, once again trying to decided whether to buy it.
If it were in a physical store, I could make the go/no-go decision immediately. Since I plan to use the machine mostly for writing, the quality of the keyboard is very important, and the reports in the reviews seem iffy. I might risk about $200 and gamble on a keyboard, but I think I’m not going to gamble the $460 that it would cost from Microcenter with shipping and California tax for a machine that I can’t use effectively.
I’m eager to see it in the flesh, as it were. Reports were that it would be in the stores today, but, as we now know without a doubt, any information about this machine and how it will be available must be assumed to be, at best, illusory, until verified by someone outside of Asus and its media dupes.
“It funny watching people compare the EEE to other similarly sized notebooks.”
Has anyone mantioned a “simalarly sized” notebook yet?? (Besides my Libretto comments)
“Those notebooks have 4-8x the speed, more memory, far more drive space, larger screens, better resolution, better cases, better manufacture.”
Are you serious?? Are there 7″ notebooks that weigh this little (with NO moving parts) and come with 4Ghz (or dual 2ghz)
I am sorry, I am just stating my opinion: that most of the people on here with negative comments about the price/rollout scheme aren’t being realistic, and/or don’t have real life experience with laptops this small. These ARE significantly smaller than a 12″ notebook, not even the same class. “Smart phones”, internet tablets, etc, need not apply, this is a real x86 PC running Intel chipset, it is compatible with a very wide range of OS’es, I might even be able to get DOS running on it (Why? I can, that’s why.).
If you honestly need more horsepower than a 900mhz CPU and 256-512MB of RAM to surf the web and/or watch movies, then please shop for something else.
Miles, dude I have been mentioning similarly sized notebooks from day one.
Same size laptops:
1) Fujitsu 1510D – $1,700
2) Fujitsu P1120 – $350 3 years old and used on ebay.
3) Averatec 1050 – $1,000
4) FlyBook Dialogue Tablet
5) JVC MP-XV841US
6) Fujitsu Lifebook P1032
10″ Laptops:
1) Compaq Armada M300
2) Fujitsu Stylistic 3400
3) Sony Vaio PCG-SRX77P
4) Sony Vaio VGN-T150P
5) COMPAQ/HP TC1000
6) SONY VAIO PCG-SRX77
Just to name a few…..
Most of these units cost three or four times as much brand new but of course had three or four times the capability. Why did I buy a Eee? Even at the inflated $446.02 price it is still a better deal than plunking down $2,000 and having to treat the thing like its a gilded lily. I don’t want to live in fear of breaking something I just spent a house payment on.
I was seriously considering getting a Fujitsu P1120 on ebay for $350 until June this year when I found out about the Eee. The allure of getting something new and cutting edge outweighed my desire to get a used questionable laptop on ebay.
By the way, they are selling 8 mint condition Fujitsu P1120′s on ebay right now. For all you people who want a full fledged laptop the same size for just a little more, here is the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fujitsu-P-Series-p1120-Laptop-Computer-touchscreen-wifi_W0QQitemZ330183540313QQihZ014QQcategoryZ39980QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Go ahead and order, its just more Eee PC’s for the rest of us! LOL
I ordered my last night! It will be in my hands in a few days!
This Asus based on processor specs probably operates at an equivalent to 30% of an Intel Core Duo 1.1 Ghz machine if that. I haven’t seen any official benchmarks yet, in fact every review writes off that part saying “its not a speed demon”, and then moving on in the review.
Running a tuned linux helps alot to making it appear to run as fast as a similar setup running XP, but the processor speed just isn’t there. First its a celeron, second, its rumored to be a reduced capacity Celeron. There are more factors that just Mhz in determining speed. Its like thinking a 1Ghz Via C3 processor doesn’t really run at an effective 300Mhz as compared to a proper Intel chip.
One thing folks forget is that flash memory is very quick. I put a Transcend 2Gig IDE drive into an old IBM 570 laptop running a PII at 300MHz, with 320RAM. I then loaded Win98SE and Office2000 onto it. Dang this sucker loads Word for Windows faster than my other laptop running at 2GHz.
The Transcend 2Gig cost me around $65, 4Gig $111.11(untaxed), and an 8Gig $207.00 (untaxed).
That’s why I decided to go and purchase the ASUSPC EEE PC 4G, plus I get all the new technology, and the size is what I wanted for traveling.
I have a Nokia N800, its 4†screen was hard for me to read PDFs and webpages, but I have found that I can watch movies on it without any difficulty. This was a vast improvement over the PDAs I’ve been use to.
This ASUS EEE PC was exactly what I was looking for and if folks say you can buy a used laptop cheaper on eBay, who cares! You’d still have to go out and purchase the IDE Flash drive and you’re stuck with old technology.
Talked to a Best Buy rep and we did some investigating. My local bestbuy will have the EEE by November 11th. Not sure if this will be the date for best buys across the nation though
John Paul: where are you located…that would be awesome if we could go to a store and touch it and feel it first…
Depending on price compared to internet stores, it might even mean instant gratification…but i’m doubting that…
people who are complaining about the price were not interested for the portability. You have to understand that portablitity is really the only thing the eeepc has going for it right now and people who dont need it are now angry at ASUS. If that report about the price hike being due to lcd prices is correct, then the price may drop latter. If it does, i think many more people will get it. I think this is quite unfortunate for ASUS, they really misseda big chance to get into the mainstream market.
Ah crap, now the lowest model is $299 – i give up.
Lee, I totally agree with you, but according to the posts on here a $300 model will be rolling out later this month, so all the people having an uproar about $400 can wait a little and get a cheaper one.
That Fujitsu is cute, but I need much more floating point performance than a Transmeta Crusoe will give me.
I realize that this is a 900Mhz processor, but it appears to be a P3 derived mobile CPU, and that has up to double the performance per clock.
I know everyone will get upset, but I do plan to game on this (retro-gaming, emulators and Doom/Quake), and watch some fairly compressed Divx, and I need the P3 tech, a VIA or Crusoe will not cut it, I have had a Cyrix Samuel II and a couple Via C3′s, and the floating point power on non-mainstream (AKA Intel/AMD) is just not enough for me.
Viva la $300 model, I do hope that the $200 model will come along for embedded applications/modding.
I envision modifying it into a large handheld game console by flipping the LCD into a tablet configuration and then grafting a USB gamepad onto each side. (Yes I am crazy, but go see Benheck.com for my kind of scene), for that sort of shenanigans a $200 PC is best.
But for personal use, I can really see paying $100 more for the proper upgradeable model.
M: seems like it’s more or less hitting the mainstream market…seems to keep selling out like crazy
miles: you are half right about the Pentium 3 basis…as far as I know, this is actually a Celeron based on the Pentium M Ultra Low Voltage processor which is in turn the newer, more powerful version of the Pentium 3
In the end you are getting the same CPU as the lower end pre-Core Duo laptops…back when Pentium M’s were huge
Hey the store i went to was in Thousand Oaks, CA. Its in southern california btw. And the guy showed me the direct sales screen info whatever, so I think thats a pretty good guess on when we’ll get em in stores
The store i went to was in Thousand Oaks, Southern CA. Hopefully this will apply to all best buys though
crap double post, sorry
California….means it’s iffy if the rest of the country will see it…California gets everything
Its true we do get everything first. Us and New York. These Eee’s were in stock at MicroCenter a few blocks from my house. For everyone else, get your newegg order in.
It seems as if the good news is availability is pretty good. Newegg is still in stock as of Monday morning. MicroCenter still has them and Directron has them. Maybe everybody else is waiting for the 2G version? I would be really interested to know how many total units sofar have sold in the US.
yeah that would be great information…
Engadget made the bitter comment that “who knows if that first sell out on Newegg was just one computer in stock”
Their posts got more and more negative after the price info was released though
Engadget is more Apple oriented and knocked the UMPC when they first were announced. But the iPhone they just kept harping on, and on, and on: I stopped visiting Engadget’s website. So I really don’t care what a site that has issues, like Engadget, says.
that makes a lot of sense actually
Yeah, I just happened to read a few EEE articles and was like WTF?
on the same note, someone in the newegg comments said the EEE was worthless and he/she would be better off with an ipod touch/iphone for “basic internet browsing”….all I have to say is good luck with that…
Hey all… I’m in line at CitrusMicro.com for my Eee PC 4G – and did some info
digging – I got some info by Asus.
They will be taking care of CM and get all of our orders filled and any more
pre-orders coming in to Citrus Micro – amounts shipped so far from Asus for
everyone has been very small amounts – that is about to change at least for CM I have confirmed.
Also after I confirmed they (Citrus Micro) are getting the $299.99 model (end
of the month) I contacted Citrus Micro and they now are taking payments for them
now to secure your place in line.
Also yet, the 4G ($399) and 4G surf ($349) are coming in mid month in new
colors! The 2G Surf come in bunch of colors too – after contacting Citrus Micro
I see them up now on their front page http://www.CitrusMicro.com
Last and the coolest info! – the Eee PC 8G is posted now also at Citrus Micro
for $499 and Asus said they are still working on the details however end of
this month they are launching them.
Now that we have all the models coming or out for now – which model are you all the most excited about??? I’m still liking the 4G ($399) since really what does
the extra memory really buy you when you can add your own ext. storage anyways
and the added memory will do little to make it faster if at all by its own
design – or am I missing something here???
the 8G seems way too expensive, especially since the 4G is like $50 to $30 over what we’d like it to be.
I think I want a black 4G
I noticed buy.com now has the 4GB eee PC available in white and black.
http://www.buy.com/retail/searchresults.asp?querytype=home&qu=eee+pc&qxt=home&display=col&dclksa=1
I’m still holding out (hope for) the 8GB model, as bad as I want to get it now while they’re in stock.
I just can’t believe there are idiots putting Windows on the thing.
Kinda defeats the purpose.
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