It’s not exactly hot news that ASUS can’t keep up with the huge demand for Eee PCs all over the world. But for the Nordic market it can have bigger consequences than in other countries. Lately April has been the month that the potential Nordic Eee PC buyers has been waiting for. That’s the month when ASUSTeK planned to launch the ASUS Eee PC in the Nordic countries.

In an article on the Danish website PCWorld.dk the Nordic ASUS press representative, Anders Haby, says that they have cancelled the planned April launch and that they have no idea when the Eee PC Nordic launch will take place. He can’t even say if or when they are planning for a new release date in these countries. One of the ASUS resellers in Norway, PS.no, has also been told the same by ASUS according to another article on the Norwegian website IDG.no.

We have new information for Eee PC users in Korea, Israel, and Belgium:

The Eee PC was recently released in South Korea. It is the Windows XP only model, and sells for 499,000 Won.

Bezeq, an Israeli telecommunications provider, will begin selling Windows XP based Eee PCs in Israel. After April, other retailers will be added.

Finally, if you’re in Belgium, look forward to getting your hands on the Eee PC in Late April.

Somebody has apparently hacked a Pentium M 1.2Ghz into their Eee PC:

You can read more and see several photos at jkkmobile and blog.tom.com.

I came across this line in an article about ASUS revinues for this year:

But, shipment of the brand’s hottest-selling Eee PC, a budget-price laptop, is estimated at only between 650,000 and 700,000 units for the quarter due mainly to a shortage of power supplies.

This is the first time I’ve heard anything about shortages of power supplies. Between the popularity of the device itself, the other shortages, the Chinese new year, and the snowstorms in China during February; it’s no wonder that many retailers still struggle to keep all models in stock at all time.

Curious as to how much torture your Eee PC can take? Want to see what happens if you continually drop the poor little device? Check out this video, which shows how durable the Eee PC really is. Thanks to one brave soul out there, you don’t have to test it on your prized Eee PC. It faired quite well!

[via Eeesite and AsusEeeHacks]

If you’ve been waiting for the Eee PC 8G to become available, It looks like it’s just about here. Over at Amazon, they have a new page up for what appears to be a Black ASUS Eee PC 8G. It’s listed as a 4G, but the description says that it has 8GB of storage and 1GB of RAM. It is listed for $542.99 and ships within 3-6 weeks- this could be the timeframe we’re looking at.

[Thanks for the tip, Dave!]

Update: Amazon has confirmed that it is the 8G Model in the Product Title

A user on our forums, infinite_reality, got KDE4 running on their Eee PC:

Looks good! You can see how they got it installed if you follow the link.

Notebook Review has a solid article that covers and compares SDHC cards, Hard Drives, and SSD storage. They benchmark each type of storage device, and you’re able to see the results. This is good if you’re interested in using SDHC cards as a primary or secondary hard drive in your Eee PC, or if you’re wondering about the Eee PC’s SSD versus a traditional hard drive. You can also read a little more about SDHC comparisons on the EeeUser wiki.

According to Digitimes, ASUS has begun to order flash storage controllers from Phison Electronics for the Eee PC. Previously, Silicon Motion was the sole supplier of the controllers. You can read more here.

If you haven’t heard of EeeDora yet, It’s a version of Fedora modified specifically for the Eee PC- created and maintained by Martin Andrews. Red Hat Magazine has a short article about it with a great overview of the distribution.

Eeedora is a great solution especially if you’re used to working with Red Hat, Cent OS, or Fedora instead of using Debian based distributions like Ubuntu. It uses the XFCE window manager for optimal screen use as well, and comes with a solid amount of software.

I’ve been using it the past several days and it’s quite nice! Give it a shot and see if you like it. The article linked to above has the full details on installing it.