According to this article on DigiTimes, ASUS is planning on introducing a low cost desktop version of the Eee PC sometime in 2008. Furthermore, they will begin selling Eee PC’s running Windows XP rather than the Xandros Linux variant this December.
Windows XP in December, Desktop Eee PC in 2008?
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http://www.koolu.com with a solid state hard drive … tada..
wil wrote:
http://www.koolu.com with a solid state hard drive … tada..
Interesting, but -again- does not offer what the eee does in terms of mobility.
@ Larrys
Where does that article state that the idea behind their desktop was mobility ?
and when have people begun thinking that a “DESK”top is MOBILE ?
Some people just do not read.. @@
BREAKING NEWS!
The 8GB will have a 10 inch display
source: http://www.i4u.com/article12818.html
Is it possible to boot from SD card or USB on the eee pc? That way you could switch between linux and XP by switching cards. Personally I have always thought that this is the way to go with changing OSs.
Re: 8G models w/ 10″ LCD – Yay, sucks to be early adopters. iPhone yaps at least have 2 months before soiling their shorts. As Steve J sez, dems the breaks when ya toy wid tech.
I for one am not worried at all that there will be an 8GB 10″ model coming out. I already have mine and the $446.02 that I paid was on the tip-top outer level of pricing I was going to pay anyway. Anything higher than that and I would have balked even for a nice slick 10″ screen. Not saying its not worth it, but budget-wise I just can’t justify spending more than that for 4GB more and 3 inches.
Hah, looks like those who’ve already bought one are already in denial mode: Oh, it’s not real, it’s only a rumor! Oh, they can’t possibly fit a 10″ into the E3! Oh, it must cost a lot more! Heheh, buyer remorse strikes again.
RE HP: Right. Make a comment on how it sucks to buy early (as if it never happens to any one but Eee and Apple customers), then make another trying to rub salt in the wounds you supposedly made in the first comment. If that is how you get your kicks on the internet you need to grow up and get a life. If you get pleasure watching other people spend money on things they want, when they want/need them, and *speculate* that they are hurt by *possible* future product releases – you are a sick fool.
In less feed-the-trolls-mode, a 10″ would be great, esp. if they can keep the form factor.
Wow, somebody is getting his panties knotted up.
JDP, dude, buyer’s remorse is a fact of life. I’m merely commenting on the irrationality of the buying decision, e.g. how people tend to rationalize after the fact. If you think that’s “rubbing salt” then you need to look in the mirror. I’m not the one responsible for your stupidity or impulsiveness.
Frankly, at $500 for the 10″/8G/1G form factor, it won’t be any great deal insofar as the mainstream is concerned. The American consumer market has always favored larger screen/more power than other markets. The ASP for notebooks is around $500-600, not counting the holiday discounts (which takes it down to the $400+ level). At 10″, the E3 will find better acceptance than the initial model, but it’ll still be limited to the technogeek set. Once the base model (4G) drops to the $300, and this 10″ to below $400, then we’ll see more mainstream adoption (cf the Wal-Mart $200 desktop for clue).
Amen JDP thanks for the observations. HP, the most important thing is, if you are always waiting for the next best thing, and the latest greatest well.. I guess you are never going to buy anything. You have to take the plunge sometime. And hey, if the 10 incher is “all-that” and a bag of grits when its released well then maybe I will buy it and give the one I got to my son. Who knows? I say take the plunge, early and often, and you will be happy.
HP, I just read your post after putting my last message up. I saw your rather strident response to JDP and I have to admit you are a little rude.
Bottom line is this, I am 100% satisfied with my Eee and not one bit remorseful. I have been waiting so long to get one that I am not going to second guess myself over some other unit coming down the pike. The Eee is a groundbreaking “first of its kind” device and its only gonna get better so there is absolutely no need for calling people stupid and impulsive.
By definition, an impulse decision is something you do quickly, and most people who bought Eee’s have planned to do so for at least five months. We all made the decision carefully, weighing all our options. Stupid an impulsive – I don’t think so HP.
If you feel this strongly about the Eee in so much as saying that even the 10″ one is a bad deal compared to other regular laptops then maybe you should just leave the Eee website entirely and start bothering people on “cheapbutlargerlaptops.com” or some other website.
I respect your right to voice your opinion but not using the language you did. We all have our viewpoints on whether the Eee is good or bad, and all of us who bought paid a premium to do so. But I think that regardless of whether we like it or we don’t, we think the price is too high or just right, the one unifying factor is that for the most part we all are totally down for this machine. So brutha, if you ain’t down fo’ da Eee then what you doin’ here playa? Translation: It’s all love among us technology hounds, so if you can’t respect that, then close your browser.
wil wrote:
“@ Larrys
Where does that article state that the idea behind their desktop was mobility ?
and when have people begun thinking that a “DESKâ€top is MOBILE ?
Some people just do not read.. @@”
I read and understood, Wil..
Maybe I did not make my point clearly. This is an eee comment board. The eee is not a desktop, nor if Asus makes a desktop variant will it be of interest to the people who have been so enthusiastic about the size, portability, and function of the eee.
So I fail to see the relevance of the the Koolu. If you want one, buy one. What does it offer that turns you on?? Cheap price?
LOL @ Lee’s idea for cheapbutlargerlaptops.com
@koolu.com Hah!
They don’t have SSD, they are “SSD compatible”, due to the fact that they have a 2.5″ HDD bay, feel free to add your $1,000+ 80GB SSD to the $300 model (overpriced, the GeodeNX ITX mobo/cpu combo is $130 at newegg, the Koolu is using a crap GeodeLX with no processing power to speak of. GeodeNX is a ultra-low power AthlonXP, pin compatible with all Socket A mobos, GeodeLX is an embedded system joke.) Either way you slice it the Eeepc desktop is something I will keep an eye out for, anything with no moving parts (STANDARD, Boo koolu), is cool by me, and @3.5w dissapated for the Eeepc processor, I like it already. For a front-end Media center it might work out.
Question: Witch Version auf Windows XP works on EEE: Windows XP or Windows XP Professional? Thanks!
I was at a big department store in Taipei today and there was an eee display and 3 sales reps. They had 2 eee’s running. One with linux and the other with xp. The Asus reps said the 8g xp version was coming out in December 07.The exp ran well. I dont realy care what os i use, but what is causing me to require xp is that I want to be able to run some software that doesnt come for linux.It was a nice surprice for me to see xp running so well and demoed by Asus themselves.
That’s good to know. My reasons for wanting XP are simple: DX9 and familiarity. The drawbacks aren’t an issue for me because I know how to wrangle them. If I was giving an eeePC to anyone else as a present I would give them the Xandros OS.
What I’m wondering about is what happens in June 08 when MS stops selling XP (assuming they don’t extend the selling date again). Have Asus said what their plans are?
How about using a cellphone for an internet connection on the Eee? I have broadband using a Sprint Mogul cell that connects using pda.net software. This will not work on Linux unless it has bluetoogh dun. Anybody have any ideas on the workaround?
If you have a WM device, there are insztructions out there on how to set it up so you cN share your 3G connection by setting up a wifi peer to peer network. Of course this assumes you have wifi and I don’t know how easy it is to do with all devices.
This is one of many reasons I’ll be getting the 8GB model and puting XP on it. I’ll just use the super easy BT PAN.
I’d agree~
Hi guys,
I want to buy one for my daughter (11) for school work but she uses PowerPoint, Word and Excel in the main. Do I have to wait for the XP version or is there a way to run these programs on a Linux machine?
Thanks,
Ian
@Ian King, yes , there is openoffice installed in EEE , hopefully your daughter not using office 2007 since it used proprietary format, if it does, teach her to convert to office 1997 format so it can be readed anywhere.
I not sure if openoffice can read the OOxml format…
If you’re worried about the flash drives being worn out due to the page file in XP then turn off your page file. Of course, you will need to upgrade the RAM in your EEE. A 2GB XP system doesn’t need a pagefile, a 4GB XP system definately doesn’t.
And wikipedia (not the greatest source, but it is backed up here) states: “With these mechanisms in place, some industry analysts[1] have calculated that flash memory can be written to at full speed continuously for 51 years before exceeding its write endurance, even if such writes frequently cause the entire memory to be overwritten.”
Off course that’s in a perfect situation, but I doubt anybodys drive is going to die within 3 years, unless they are doing something stupid…
For what its worth Ian, Suprie is right to remind everyone that Office is not the centre of the universe anymore. Also take a look at Google Docs. The same as OpenOffice but not restricted to one PC. I create all my docs with Google and save as Office docs when appropriate.
Damn, I was looking forward to getting one of these sometime next year, but if Asus is going to put Windows on there instead of Linux, I think will have to pass. I do pretty much all my computing on Linux these days, and the last thing I want is yet another unused copy of Windows sitting around.
Windows is a piece of shit, only retards use it instead of Linux.
I have just installed the advanced desktop on my Eee.It came right up and works fine. The problem is that when I move an application short cut, such as the calculator to the desktop, the icon comes up on the desktop just fine and is fully functional when double clicking it. The problem is when I shut down the machine and come back later, all the icons I installed to the desktop are gone, except for the original “home” icon. There must be a way to cause the desktop to stay populated with the icons, otherwise, the desktop is useless to me. How do you save the short-cut icons on the desktop so they will come up everytime the machine is booted up, as in Windows?
Thanks….Jerry
okey,,,
i wanna to buy EEE PC,,,
but i start to doubt about it, because i wanna buy it if it’s use windows OS. Will EEE PC come in Indonesian with Windows OS
I have used Windows laptops for years, and have tried Linux before and gone back to Windows. What I can’t understand is why anyone other than a geek type would want to replace the pre-installed Linux OS with either Windows or another Linux. The pre-installed Linux OS is light years ahead of either Windows or other Linuxes in terms of ease of use, user friendliness, boot time, and speed. The ability to install thousands of new apps with a click of the mouse in the case of Linux rather than install boxed shrink wrapped applications from CD ROMS is a real bonus for a laptop that comes without a CD/DVD drive.
Wear levelling IS a major issue for flash storage. If you don’t know how to set Windows or other Linuxes without swap, then DON’T do it. Swap re-uses the same portion of the drive very heavily and will wear out the inbuilt storage very quickly rendering you eeePC useless (thousands of rewrites is no sufficient for swap). By the way Windows does not do wear leveling at all and other Linux distros do not do wear levelling by default. It is the filesystem that does wear leveling, and Windows does not have to option of using a wear leveling filesystem. This is much less critical of course than the swap usage, but will still reduce the eeePC’s life.
Ian King:
Yes OpenOffice will will read and write MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint binary files for MS Office 95, 97, 2000, 2002/XP, 2003. It won’t run MS VBA macros (which in 99% never use except to inadvertently run macro viruses). It also won’t read MS visio files.
OpenOffice is a superb MS Office compatible product product which my company uses at work in preference to MS Office.
What you can do is try out the Windows version of OpenOffice(with JRE) which downloadable and usable for free from http://www.openoffice.org
on any Windows PC, before you buy the eeePC
Just one point for anybody considering buying an eeePC. If you want a Windows PC to run your existing heavyweight Windows shrink wrapped applications and into which you want to plug in lots of peripherals, you should think about buying a low cost luggable heavyweight Windows laptop with an 80GB hard drive and a DVD drive. You can get these at only slightly higher cost.
If on the other hand you want a ultra portable, ultra rugged, ultra connectivity laptop which you can take anywhere, and you are going to use it for email, Skype, web conferencing, web browsing, using the office suite etc, using LAN, WiFi or G3 phone (with the G3 add on card), then go for the eeePC.
Even if you already have a heavyweight laptop like me, you might want to get an eeePC as a primary laptop to carry round with you always, because most of the time, my other laptop is too heavy to carry around.
Trying to stuff too many applications, OS options and expansion into the eeePC destroys the beautiful simplicity, ease of use, and functionality of the eeePC that makes it so unique and appealing.
A non partisan review from Laptop Magazine:
http://laptopmag.com/Review/Exclusive-First-Review-Asus-Eee-PC-701.htm
You cannot tether your Blackberry (mine, an 8700g), through eee pc without win XP installed. Just for anyone else wanting to wonder why “XP” on eee. It means that you will have unlimited wireless connectivity wherever, and whenever your cell phones network is available (I have the unlimited data plan, 19.99/month.). Sorry to all of you linux supporters/XP bashers out there. Nothing personal. I want my eee to perform like my XP desktop, and it does so beautifully! Tethered to my Blackberry while on the road, even better than being at home! = ) (Hope this helps someone else)
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