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Comment on eeeuser.com EeePC 900 in-depth review by Dave

Dave — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:20:40 +0000

I have a 701…do you guys think I should sell it to upgrade to 900 ?
Or should I wait for MSI Wind ?

Comment on Order the Eee PC 900 20G and 12G at Amazon by Foomf

Foomf — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:42:17 +0000

Darnit, MrE … OK, mine is on order now.

Comment on Microsoft Defines Boundaries of XP Devices by Jacques

Jacques — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:19:25 +0000

Bill still secretly believe that all computers should have no more than 64K memory as he cannot imagine what application will need more than 64k of memory to run. Having said that, have Asus think of just selling a blank EEE PC without any OS preinstalled?

1. Users can then install whatever they want themselves.

2. Asus can also then sell the EEE PC cheaper.

3. This is a win-win situation. You can buy a notebook with no preinstall OS for decades now.

I MEAN SERIOUSLY ASUS, WHY NOT SELL US YOUR EEE PCs TO US WITHOUT PRE-INSTALLED OS AND AS A RESULT SELL THEM CHEAPER TOO BUT BUT.. DON’T CRIPPLE THE MEAN OR ABILITY TO ALLOW USERS TO INSTALL EITHER XP OR LINUX FLAVOUR.

Comment on Microsoft Defines Boundaries of XP Devices by robb

robb — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:07:35 +0000

MS was all set to retire XP, but with the millions of Asus EEE PC’s that are being sold with “gasp” Linux made them revisit this decision. MS realized this is a huge emerging market and they must not let this market slip to Linux…but Vista is too bloated to run Vista and the cost of XP licenses are one third the price of the PC. So they bring back XP with a reduced license cost and add their draconian limitations.

It just proves MS does not care about their customers…only the money.

Comment on Order the Eee PC 900 20G and 12G at Amazon by Amigower

Amigower — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:53:47 +0000

I got the 20gb Linux, I want to install XP but dont know which, either Home or Pro?
any pros or cons?

Comment on Microsoft Defines Boundaries of XP Devices by Milen

Milen — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:43:04 +0000

@ Molly
“if for example ASUS decides to release a touch screen version of the Eee PC they sure will get windows XP Home edition licenses for it. not at discount rates but for the regular price.”

Windows XP licences will not be available to manufacturers after June 2008 - this is Microsoft’s current position and it has been in the news a while ago. It will not be the matter of choice. The only exception Microsoft will make is for ultra mobile devices within certain specifications. These are the facts for now, unless Microsoft changes their mind at a later point.

Comment on Order the Eee PC 900 20G and 12G at Amazon by mrE

mrE — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:14:02 +0000

Costco.com shows the Linux version for 549 and they also extend the warranty to 2 years. I am not sure if it is in stock.

Comment on Order the Eee PC 900 20G and 12G at Amazon by Karen

Karen — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:26:46 +0000

The Atom 901 is being discussed in the Forums complete with pictures. These are a few of the links.

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=28620

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=28681

translated version of French site link in this thread
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=28604

Comment on Order the Eee PC 900 20G and 12G at Amazon by Peter

Peter — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:43:48 +0000

Boss, got any scoop or info on the Atom-model? I saw leaked images on gizmodo, but no confirmation on specs or time!

Comment on Order the Eee PC 900 20G and 12G at Amazon by Juan Rozo

Juan Rozo — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:17:20 +0000

I do think it is a shame how this page now gets updated less and less… This page has the largest amount of users, and has tons of useful information, but if it continues to be updated so late, it will definitely loose terrain against any of the other EEE or similar related pages… For example, I used to check it every day, now I check this every week, and I check liliputing.com once a day…