ASUS Reveals Eee PC Desktop Variant
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| Hard specs on the devices are hard to come by, but ASUS notes that the device
| is much smaller than typical than typical desktops and that it has "good
| enough performance". Other niceties include Hi-Fi Stereo and Dolby Digital
| Live support. Also noteworthy is the fact that the EP20 will soldier on with
| the Eee PC Linux operating system (which is based on Xandros Linux).
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http://www.dailytech.com/ASUS+Reveals+Eee+PC+Desktop+Variant/article11106c.htm
Maybe Microsoft will try to give them XP for free. Vista will never run on
these anyway (too 'fat', incompatible, privacy-unaware and buggy).
Related:
Linux is Part of Asus’s Long Term Plan
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| Asus announced three new Linux products.
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| I would even go so far to say that if Asus keeps up its support of Linux, it
| may be the company that is credited with bringing Linux on the desktop to the
| masses.
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http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/02/02/linux-is-part-of-asuss-long-term-plan/
2007's most important IT lesson is spelled with an Eee
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| The Eee shows too just how out of date the 'is Linux ready for the desktop?'
| argument is. Yes it is. Anyone can pick up an Eee with its standard Linux
| distro - or with a number of freely available alternatives - and just use it.
| That alone revitalises the 'is this paid-for operating system value for
| money?' question.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006830o-2000331777b,00.htm?new_comment
I Love Linux
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| I’m writing this post from my little EEE PC on a tiny table in my bedroom -
| the only room in the house with any furniture. As you can see in the photo,
| we are doing a little Home Improvement - new flooring. In the meantime, our
| world is total chaos. I’ve re-discovered my biceps - mostly because they are
| sore from moving all our stuff out of the house - and I’ve re-discovered my
| love of Linux.
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http://moultriecreek.us/family/2008/02/20/i-love-linux/
Asus is now a PC company
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| Low and high end machines are first out of the gate, complimenting the
| laptops and accessories they already make.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/11/asus-pc-company
Microsoft can't even give it away
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| To sweeten the pill, there is also a considerable price incentive in buying a
| basic portable with GNU/Linux installed as opposed to one with Windows XP,
| which not only costs about 30 per cent more, but also has the nerve to
| require more storage space and memory. The situation gets even worse for the
| Vole when it phases out XP for Vista in June, bringing basic storage
| requirements, just for running the thing, up to a whopping 15 GB. Free
| browser-based online services like Gmail and Google Docs make life even more
| arduous for the Vole, allowing users to get by quite happily just using
| Firefox.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/11/microsoft-give-away
ASUS preps $500 'iMac killer' Eee PC desktop
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| The computer builder also says it will build a headless desktop, the E-DT,
| which will at first use a Celeron but then switch to the Shelton platform.
| Most details are unavailable, though the price should range between $200 and
| $300 and is being pushed towards the $200 mark. A third system known as the
| E-TV will combine a basic Eee PC platform with a 42-inch LCD TV and should
| cost about $200 more than a comparable TV that ships without such features.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/30/asus.eee.pc.all.in.one/
Asustek ups Eee PC sales f'cast by two-thirds
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| Asustek had said that it hoped to become the world's fifth-largest laptop PC
| vendor by 2010.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTP4901620071128
Little Linux Laptops: Build It and People Will Come
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| Verdict
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| You can hardly go wrong in getting a notebook computer for less than $400.
| Any one of these units represents a highly compact and usable computer for a
| very reasonable price. The prevailing wisdom in computing has always been ‘Go
| smaller, pay more’, but these latest Linux laptops are battling that
| philosophy nicely. But then Linux has always gone against the wind.
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http://www.performancepccanada.com/?defaultarticle=1117&defaultnode=516&layout=20&pagefunction=Load%20Layout&formfields[sect_title]=Reviews
Asus Says Eee PC is Most Successful Product Ever
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| An interesting piece of news from Asus’s press conference is that the Eee PC
| is their “most successful product ever,” according to Engadget. This is
| potentially huge news for Linux on two levels.
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http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/01/07/asus-says-eee-pc-is-most-successful-product-ever/
Asustek Eee PC shipments beat expectations
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| Asustek has shipped almost 350,000 units of the Eee PC in the quarter, ahead
| of the 300,000 estimated, according to Taiwan's DigiTimes.
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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/12/21/asustek_eee_pc_shipments_beat_expectations.html
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